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Forgotten Futures 4 Updates
As some of you will know I've been revising my RPG setting based on Carnacki the Ghost Finder and converting it to PDFs. I've reached a point with this now where I've either fixed everything or am blind to my own errors (probably the latter), so I'm going to go public with links to everything, if you spot any problems PLEASE let me know about them ( Read more... ) -
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... ) -
With The Night Mail Covers
A couple of years ago I put illustrated versions of Kipling's With The Night Mail and As Easy as A.B.C. on line, with some notes on their publication and variations.
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff1/nm-abc.pdf
As Easy as A.B.C. was serialized over two issues of ( Read more... ) -
web site update
Everything should now be back to normal - please let me know if there's anything I've missed.
Also posted at https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2133176.html, where there are
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Server Failure Update
I've uploaded a backup, but at the moment it's only accessible as forgottenfutures.org - files that were accessed as forgottenfutures.com or forgottenfutures.co.uk are giving error messages. I'm still waiting to hear back from technical support about this, hopefully it's fixable.
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Forgotten Futures Server Failure
There has been a catastrophic server failure affecting the Forgotten Futures web sites - it isn't yet clear if it will be restored from backups or if I'll have to rebuild it, if the latter I'm going to take my time and finish putting the whole Forgotten Futures CD-ROM on line properly as well as rolling out some new stuff. I'll post again when I ( Read more... ) -
GDPR
Since I'm EU based I need to post a GDPR statement for my web site etc:
GDPR
Like all EU web sites I need to comply with the GDPR rules on privacy.
This site does not collect data, and I no longer take user registrations. I still retain a list of previously registered users in case there is any query, but I have no intention of sending out mailings ( Read more... ) -
New Article on Web Site
I've been wanting to post this for ages, but couldn't because H.G. Wells is one of the authors and was still in European copyright until the end of 2016. Then I forgot in January, for which many apologies:
The English House of the Future from The Strand Magazine December 1903: No author credited for the first section, though various architects are ( Read more... ) -
Forgotten futures refunds sent
I've just sent refunds to everyone who didn't reply to my email re the end of Forgotten Futures. It'll be interesting to see what happens - I sent out 31 payments, I'm willing to bet at least 3 or 4 will be problematic ( Read more... ) -
Forgotten Futures Shareware Registration Ending
Further to my previous posts, I'm ending shareware registration of Forgotten Futures. See the post link below for an email I've just sent to current registered users. Since a few messages have bounced and more may be blocked by spam filters etc. I'd be grateful if you could point this out to anyone who might be affected. forgotten futures