The long-awaited physical editions of the Heterotopias zine are finally here! The first three issues, 001, 002, and 003, are being printed in a tangible form for the very first time.
Heterotopias is the leading publication about game spaces and architecture. Since 2017 it has dissected a rich tapestry of virtual environments with incisive writing, detailed studies, exciting essays and sublime photography. Arkane director Harvey Smith has named the zine “beautiful and illuminating”, while VICE has said the project is “animated by a sense of slow-burning anarchic experimentation”.
Now this digital series is becoming physical, with the first three issues available as timeless hardcover editions that include updated design and detailing, making them the ultimate versions of the project. All three volumes are available as standalone releases, while the Deluxe Edition bundles the books together with an exclusive, additional volume of studies, first produced for the Heterotopias website and now immortalised in a unique book form overseen by Heterotopias editor and creator Gareth Damian Martin.
Each of the issues in this series have been modified and re-edited for their physical debut, and feature beautiful open spines, translucent belly bands, and precise print detailing. Intended to be the definitive form of Heterotopias, the design has been created in collaboration with Gareth Damian Martin, and brings a new materiality to the zine.
Through the Heterotopias archive, Lost in Cult will continue to produce physical editions of all the work Heterotopias has created over the past five years, building a definitive collection of the world's foremost publication on game spaces and architecture.
DELUXE EDITION
The Deluxe Edition includes issues 001, 002 and 003, as well as an additional 350+ page book of studies all housed within a high-end slipcase. The edition also comes with two exclusive postcard sets — The Empty City, a series documenting Mirror’s Edge Catalyst in high gloss, and Memoires of a Broken Planet, a unique 35mm exploration of Metoid Prime printed in metallic ink — plus a poster of one of the 35mm Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days photographs taken from the very first issue. Rounding out the package is a bundle-only Heterotopias member pin badge, so that you can show your support for the project.
Studies book includes essays on: Assemblance, No Man’s Sky, Everything, NieR Automata, Rain World, Horizon Zero Dawn, Sir You Are Being Hunted, Gnog, Prey, Tokyo 42, Rust, Neuromancer, Pyre, Yuuyami Doori Tankentai, Future Unfolding, PUBG, Echo, Gorogoa, The Long Dark, Breath of the Wild, Paratopic, Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Remember Me, DARK SOULS: REMASTERED, WipEout Omega Collection.
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