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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

I've now uploaded an ePub version of The Struggle for Empire. Please let me know if you have any problems with it

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

If you get an error saying either is an insecure file try using https instead of http -

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

https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/struggle/struggle.epub

I'm hopefully going to get the whole site updated for https in the next few days.

Something related to this - a talk I gave at an SF con in 2011 about the early history of military SF and The Struggle For Empire. I've just put it on line as a PDF.

Victorian and Edwardian Military SF