Ashen Stars is the newest full-length, stand-alone GUMSHOE game from RPG legend, Robin D. Laws. It's now available for pre-order, featuring a simple PDF now, sample layout, exclusive fiction, and your name in the credits, the final PDF and finally a signed and numbered copy on relelase.

In this gritty space opera game, the PCs are Lasers, freelance troubleshooters and law enforcers operating in a remote sector called the Bleed. They're needed in the wake of a massive retreat by the Combine,  the utopian empire that colonized it. Amid the ashes of a devastating war, the lasers solve mysteries, fix thorny problems, and explore strange corners of space—all on a contract basis. They balance the immediate rewards of a quick buck against their need to maintain their reputation, so that they can continue to quickly secure lucrative contracts and pay the upkeep on their ship and their cyber- and viroware enhancements.