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The Struggle For Empire - A Story of the Year 2236
marcus 2013
ffutures

Forgotten Futures 12 was to have been based on The Struggle For Empire - A Story of the Year 2236 (1900), a short novel by Robert William Cole that appears to be the first example of military SF actually set in space. For a lot of reasons that never happened. I originally intended to put the book and some of the other material I'd prepared for this setting on line, but somehow never got round to it.

Recently I was reminded of this, and after 12+ years I've finally got round to finishing the PDF version of the book. I should eventually add HTML and ePub versions, and set up a page for this and some of the other material I intended to use in the RPG - but for now here's a link to the novel. If you read this and spot anything that looks like a typo please let me know!

http://forgottenfutures.co.uk/struggle/struggle.pdf


D'Ordel's Pantechnicon
lost world
ffutures
Having corrected rather a lot of errors, my HTML version of D'Ordel's Pantechnicon, an essential read for anyone interested in Victorian and Edwardian magazines is now on line as

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/pantech/pant1.htm

PLEASE let me know if you find any errors - I don't have links to it yet on my site, that'll come once I'm happy it's OK.

I hope to add a PDF of scans of the original book in a day or two.

Fanfic writers and RPG designers will probably find the later chapters especially interesting, especially Of the Serial Adventure and Of the Recital of Military Slaughter, and of Events affecting the Royal Blood

Later: May not be posting the PDF right away - it's 44mb! I'll have to see if I can tweak it to get the file size down without making it illegible.