Publications in Rapture

For the publications in Columbia, see Publications in Columbia.

Various scientific monographs.

“SECURITY ORDER 217: All Publications to Cease Distribution until Further Notice.”

― Rapture Standard, Final Edition

Rapture produced many different publications in its heyday. The underwater city promoted competition and a Laissez-faire economics environment, so journalism, publishing, and other facets of the print industry were divided among many different privately owned businesses.

History

Rapture's publications kept the many people of the city entertained and in the know. On the surface, a publisher might reject an individual's work for being too forward-thinking or risqué, but in Rapture, the only concern was whether a profit could be made. Whether it was the upscale Bookstore in the Housewares department of Fontaine's, Harold Parson's meager shop in Pauper's Drop, or the various news vendors and kiosks in between, the citizens of Rapture had a wide variety of places where they could get their periodicals.

Like many businesses in Rapture, the print industry was dramatically affected by the 1958 New Year's Eve Riots, the Rapture Civil War, and the eventual collapse of civilized society. In the immediate aftermath of the Kashmir bombings, citizens turned to the news for updates surrounding the turmoil of the civil war, while others sought escape from the daily horrors via books and other diversions. Under Security Order 217 all publications in Rapture were permanently suspended. From that point on, the PA System, controlled by Andrew Ryan, became the primary means of distributing information around the city.

Newsprint

• Rapture Standard
• Rapture Tribune
• Rapture Daily Post
• Do Tell!
• Heller News

Literature

Dr. Lamb's Unity and Metamorphosis.

• Applied Headology, F. Griffith
• Applied Genetics, Wahl
• Better Cooking Through Plasmids
• Dawkin's Law, Sturtevant
• Don't Let the Bastards See You Sweat, Frank Fontaine's self-help guide to getting ahead.
• Evolutionary Biology, Keating
• Mendelian Practise, Keating
• Practical Eugenics, Foberg
• Pressure Mechanics
• The Decline of Beauty, Olver Putterham
• The Holy Bible
• The Intellectual Superhuman, Dr. Per Radegast
• Unity and Metamorphosis, Sofia Lamb's book on overcoming the self.

Magazines

• Couture - Because You're Not One of Them
• Magnate - Under the Coffers with Andrew Ryan
• Rapture: Luxury You've Earned
• Rapture Woman - Time-Saving Wonders!
• Science and You
• Stars and Screen

Erotic Reading Material

• Below Decks
• Co-Eds - It's Never Too Late for an Education
• The Farmer's Daughter - Ready to Get Down and Dirty
• Lusts
• Mother May I? - She Lived to Punish Men
• Sinners at the Pearly Gates

Publishing Houses

• Fontaine Press
• Rapture Publication
• The Bacchanal Press

Gallery

Newspaper articles from BioShock.

Newspaper clippings from BioShock.

Copy of the Rapture Tribune.

All of the news vendors from Burial At Sea.

Covers of Rapture Tribune, Rapture Daily Post, Do Tell!.

Newspaper clipping from the Rapture Daily Post, about Yi Suchong.

A render of Don't Let the Bastards See You Sweat.

Book covers from Burial at Sea.

Behind the Scenes

The "I summon you to comradeship in the Red Cross" poster.

• The cover for the "Lusts" magazine featured Burial at Sea is based on an American Red Cross World War I "I summon you to comradeship in the Red Cross" poster, designed by Harrison Fisher.
• Two book models can be found in the game files of Burial at Sea - Episode 1, which were not used in-game. The books are named Agony & Truth and Collected Papers, the latter being written by Brigid Tenebaum. Due to Brigid Tenenbaum's name being misspelled on the cover, it can be assumed that it was a factor in why the models were not used.

The unused books.