A Pound of Flesh is, in my opinion, the gold standard of RPG supplement design. The graphic design of this book is stunning and innovative. The designer(s) did some amazing work utilizing only white, black, and pink. There is a lot of information packed into its layout! the tone is encouraging and the writing stimulates your creativity while you're running the adventure. There isn't any filler here; this is packed full of useful information.
As for content, the setting is appropriately dark and dystopian. In addition to the thoroughly-detailed space station Prospero's Dream, there are also random tables that will aid you in creating your own space stations. This is a book you will get a lot of use out of for your Mothership campaign.
The only thing I would have liked to see would have been a content warning at the beginning. There is some deeply disturbing stuff in here - as you would expect from a sci-fi horror game - but it would be helpful for GMs, at least, to know what they're going to be in for, and gauge whether their players are going to be okay with that content.
This should be up for awards.
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