 Cover by David Dietrick[1] | |
| Designers | Frank Chadwick |
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| Publication | 1988, 2001, 2014 |
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| Systems | GDW Task system, Ubiquity |
| ISBN | 0-943580-80-3 |
Space: 1889 is a tabletop role-playing game of Victorian-era space-faring,[2] created by Frank Chadwick and originally published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) from 1989 to 1990. It was the first roleplaying game to feature space colonization using steam technology in the style of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle in what would later be called steampunk.[3]: 171–172 The setting of Space: 1889 has not only produced roleplaying games, but boardgames, books, miniatures and a computer game.
- ^ Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic worlds : a history and guide to role-playing games. Buffalo: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-652-7.
- ^ T. Hull (July 23, 2004). "Review of Space: 1889". RPGnet. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
- ^ Appelcline, Shannon (2014). Designers & Dragons. '70-'79 : A history of the roleplaying game industry (2nd ed.). Silver Springs, MD, USA: Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-075-5.