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The Struggle For Empire - A Story of the Year 2236
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 ( Read more... ) -
British Library - LOTS of illustrations on line
In a comment on my last post i_kender pointed out that the British Library has put a shedload of illustrations from books on line for free use, as a huge flickr set.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
For example, one of the first I found was a larger version of this:
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The Pulpomizer!
Found by karohemd; The Pulpomizer! You never knew you wanted it, but you do...
http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mizer/pulp-o-mizer.html
And this is the sort of thing it does...
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Orrin Linday's Plan of Aerial Navigation
Following various comments I've re-read Orrin Linday's Plan of Aerial Navigation, made a few changes, and now feel reasonably confident that the text is more or less accurate. I'll be adding a link to it on my site, and posting info on it to the online books page etc.
Please feel free to link to it etc, it'll be permanently on the site now.Easy travel to other planets
Someone recently brought an 1847 pamphlet to my attention:
ORRIN LINDSAY'S
PLAN OF
AERIAL NAVIGATION,
WITH A NARRATIVE OF HIS EXPLORATIONS IN THE
HIGHER REGIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE,
AND HIS WONDERFUL
VOYAGE ROUND THE MOON!
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Edited by J. L. RIDDELL, M.D.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Which is basically a "serious scientific paper" ( Read more... )...saves the Empire and brings about world peace!!!
Another walk to the British Library today - The most direct route is three miles, I managed it in an hour and ten minutes which is not exactly breaking the sound barrier, but pretty good for me. I also noticed that I passed work after about 45 minutes, so if I leave home at my usual term-time 8.10ish I can get in at about 9 AM, which is my usual ( Read more... )WITHIN AN ACE OF THE END OF THE WORLD
Having realised that I can avoid space problems by hosting the graphics files at photobucket, I've put the Barr story on line as ( Read more... )Well, that's different...
I just scanned another disaster story, Robert Barr's "Within an Ace of the End of the World," which is an interesting precursor of Doyle's The Poison Belt but written in 1900 and with a less happy ending - sixteen survivors, 8 British men and 8 American women, who are the only ones to take the oncoming crisis seriously and survive in hermetically ( Read more... )
