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Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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Owen dug out some older mentions of this - I threw in his review of the first issue of Fort that appeared in the mag but there was also an editorial (FT145:4) which couldn't really comfortably be fitted in with the feature but it was prompted by the release of Necronauts and I thought as I had it around I'd throw it in here as it is interesting:
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It's always a buzz to see your name in print and, no matter how famous or infamous you might be, the fascination never really palls. Since our first issue, we have credited everyone who contributed to that issue; it means a lot to our devoted army of clipsters and is our way of saying thanks. The staff of Fortean Towers are, likewise, not immune to a puff of pride on catching a glimpse of themselves and, over the years, this literary mirror has ranged from Private Eye and New Scientist to the National Enquirer (which blamed us for their own credulity over the 'Civil War pterodactyl' photograph) and Arab News (which, in commenting on some arcane political development declared it "a development strange enough for the Fortean Times"). Even more gratifying is that, on several occasions, passages from FT have been requested for use as examples of interesting and clear writing by organizations teaching English as a foreign language.
In 1984, Ken Campbell wrote a TV play, Unfair Exchanges, about the global phone networks becoming sentient which featured FT and, in the US, Fox once requested permission to show copies of FT (all too briefly) in Mulder's bedroom in one episode of Trie X-Files. Fort and his writing were also central to Paul Thomas Anderson's acclaimed 1999 movie Magnolia. Perhaps inevitably, we've made more impact in fiction and comics. A number of books cite strange data from our pages and have recognised the cultural value of FT as a public forum for discussion of the weirdness of our existence; an example is Mark Chadbourn's recent fantasy novels about the return of ancient Celtic gods, World's End and Darkest Hour.
One of us (Bob) has fond memories of coffee with Neil Caiman, during which we mugged up an opening to an unwritten adventure that begins in the round Reading Room of the old British Museum. We imagined Karl Marx, Aleister Crowley and Charles Fort - who all worked there (though admittedly not at the same time) - each receiving books meant for one of the others. We remembered this when several readers recently brought to our attention a fortean story series currently running in the UK comic 2000 AD. Written by Gordon Rennie and drawn by Frazer Irving, 'Necronauts' features the adventures of an occult crime investigation team comprising Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, HP Lovecraft and Charles Fort. In its 'Judge Dredd' series the same comic, years back, included an Institute for Fortean Research. |
The usual photo of Fort at the bottom of the editorial was replaced with Frazer Irving's gun-toting Fort in issues 145, 146 and 147. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-05-2007 13:05 Post subject: |
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I found another one - The Searchers in which Fort assembles a group of writers H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle (again) and brings their literary creations to life to form a proto-League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/searchers.htm |
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| Timble2 Imaginary person Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Total posts: 7114 Location: Practically in Narnia Age: 58 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 08-05-2007 19:54 Post subject: |
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It's just about doable time-line wise, though Jules Verne was by far the oldest 20-35 years older than the others and died 1905.
You could fit in Henry Rider Haggard as well. |
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