Counterblast is a pulp-inspired science fiction tabletop skirmish battle game for 28-30mm miniatures.
Taking McLuhan and Lewis as starting points, the essays in this volume develop and push the ideas presented in both BLAST and COUNTERBLAST while the book design pays homage to both thinkers' experiments in typography.
Brief compendium of basic ideas for new avenues of communication in the electronic age, with examples of exploded typography by Canadian designer Harley Parker.
From the depths of the suburbs at the twilight of civilisation to the near and not so far-fetched future, Counterblast is a journey unlike any other. 'It's unnerving at first but you had been told to expect that'.
In this book you will find all of the information you need to play the game, including rules for how to create your crew, how to set up a table, and how to battle for control of the Outer Reaches and beyond!
Counterblast: 1954 Edition
Counterblast 1954
... Counterblast, his manifesto for a North American vorticist movement, and Sheila Watson, Lamberti argues, began final revisions to The Double Hook. McLuhan, in his Introduction to the 1954 edition of Counterblast, in fact cites both ...
A Counterblast sourcebook for the Savage Worlds RPG.
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