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Dark Sand
by Alain Vonck

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52 pages 
17.5 x 24 cm 
Three colour risograph 
with digital centre-section 
Saddle stitch
Second edition of 300 
2017

Dark Sand is Alain Vonck's guide through the hyperreal environments and landscapes of an early multi-user domain game, a precursor to the more commonly known MMORPG (online role-playing game). Medieval structures come head-to-head with glitchy bitmap backdrops and interspersed with passages of text that together form a deconstructed narrative world.

About

Undercurrents in international publishing, est. 2011 (London, UK)

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Distributed in the UK by New Dimension
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Website by Dan Powell

All splash page images by Holly Rae Jones


Press

The Face - Bronze Age: 10 Years of Riotous Independent Publishing [March 2021]

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It's Nice That - Acts of Natural Magik presents Pokémon landscape photography in the post-Giovanni era [November 2019]

C4 Journal - Sasha Kurmaz - Poisonous Berries [February 2022]



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