Archive Record
- Publisher
- QuantumArcPress.io
- Imprint
- Quantum Digital Publishing
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 36
- Published
- 2025
- Series
- Dreamscape 2032
- ISBN, paperback
- 978-1-967405-17-6
Spotted "Quantum Digital Publishing" on Amazon or Bowker? Same family, different name tag. QDP holds the ISBNs; QuantumArcPress.io is where the books live.
About the book
Dreamscape 2032 is a steampunk fantasy world drawn to be coloured. Floating cities held up by nothing you can explain. Gears the size of a room, and gears the size of a coin. Machines built by someone who clearly enjoyed building them. People dressed for an age that never quite happened. Every illustration is original and drawn at high resolution, so the fine detail survives the print instead of turning to mud.
This is a colouring project, not a puzzle. There is no right answer and nothing to solve. The line work is dense enough to hold your attention for a long sitting and open enough that a single page can be finished in one. Readers describe it as the part of the evening where the phone goes face down.
There are two ways in. The Sampler is eight pages, and it exists so you can find out whether this style suits your hand before you commit to the large book. The Collector's Edition is the full journey, 52 detailed plates, printed large on single sided pages so nothing bleeds through and every finished plate can be cut out and framed.
Both books are printed at 8.5 by 11 inches on single sided pages. Pencils, markers, crayons, gel pens and fineliners all work. The paper was chosen so that a marker does not ruin the plate on the other side, which is the usual complaint about colouring books and the reason these are printed one side only.
It is drawn for teenagers and adults. There is nothing in it a younger child should not see, but the detail is fine enough that small hands tend to find it frustrating rather than relaxing.
Who it is for
- You want an hour that is quiet, absorbing, and has nothing to do with a screen.
- You like steampunk, Victorian design, airships, clockwork and impossible machines.
- You have been let down before by thin paper and want single sided pages.
- You want to try the style first, cheaply, before buying the big book.
- You are buying a gift for someone who already owns too many candles.
What is inside
52 original plates
The Collector's Edition, drawn at high resolution and printed large. Every plate is new artwork, not a reissue or a filler pattern.
Eight pages to try first
The Sampler is the same world and the same hand, at a size you can finish in an afternoon. It is the cheapest honest way to find out if you like it.
Single sided, 8.5 by 11 inches
Markers do not ruin the plate behind. Finished pages can be cut out and framed without losing a second illustration.
Floating cities and clockwork
Airships, gears, imaginative machines and elegant fashion. Detailed enough for a long sitting, open enough to finish one page in a short one.
How to use it
Start with the Sampler if you have never coloured at this level of detail. Eight pages tells you what 52 would feel like.
Work from the middle of a plate outward. The dense areas set the colour scheme, and it is easier to match the open areas to them than the other way round.
Single sided pages mean you can cut a finished plate out. Several readers frame them, so it is worth deciding your palette before you start rather than halfway through.
Questions readers ask
Is Dreamscape 2032 a novel?
No. It is a steampunk coloring book: airships, clockwork, floating cities and Victorian fashion. The Collector's Edition has 52 original plates and the Sampler has eight pages.
Will markers bleed through?
The pages are single sided, 8.5 by 11 inches, so markers do not ruin the plate behind, and a finished page can be cut out and framed.
Which one should I buy first?
The Sampler, if you have never colored at this level of detail. Eight pages tell you what 52 would feel like.
Available editions
The full book. 52 original high resolution plates, printed large on single sided pages. This is the one to buy if you already know you like the style.
The novels in this series
Dreamscape 2032 is also a series of eight novels by Juan José Piedra. They are being written now. Nothing below is finished, on sale, or available to pre order, and the titles and covers have not been announced. They share the world of the colouring books above and nothing else, so please do not buy one expecting the other.
Book One
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SoonBook Two
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SoonBook Three
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SoonBook Four
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SoonBook Five
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SoonBook Six
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SoonBook Seven
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SoonBook Eight
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SoonAbout the author
Juan José Piedra
Founder of Quantum Arc Press and its Quantum Digital Publishing imprint. Builds the house, curates the catalog, and stewards the Author Work-Exchange (opening January 2027), a fairer path from manuscript to market.
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