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ABSYNTHE
SFX
|Holiday Special 2021
Are you familiar with Decopunk? It’s like steampunk but set in the 1920s. Think The Great Gatsby meets Metropolis. Or the original BioShock, depending on brow height. This is the setting for Absynthe, an alternate roaring ’20s of flappers and exoskeleton battle suits, speakeasies and “mechanikal” men.
RELEASED 9 DECEMBER
416 pages | Hardback/ebook
Author Brendan P Bellecourt
Publisher Head Of Zeus
It is not, however, a mere Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow or The Rocketeerstyle homage to sci-fi of the era. Instead, Absynthe
This story is from the Holiday Special 2021 edition of SFX.
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