So, it seems that there’s a pen and paper RPG that had managed to sneak under my radar – it’s been out for a while now (and went in and out of print once or twice) but it looks to be right up my street. Space 1889, by Heliograph ticks a great many Steampunk boxes – there’s aether ships, steam vessels, the British Empire exploring mars (and encountering native Martian people), dashing rascals and plucky young ladies. So, I was starting to wonder if it could get any better. And then it did.

They produced radio plays! There’s four at present, from Noisemonster Productions: Red Devils, The Steppes of Thoth, The Siege of Alclyon, and The Lunar Inheretance. The page has radio trailers for them all, for those who’d like to hear them, and they do some apparently good offers on buying multiples of the recordings. I must admit – the book, or the CD’s are creeping ever closer to my not-buying limit. Any closer, and my resolution will fail, and my purse will open.