FutureTense

I always wanted FutureTense to be a community, modeled after the seminal cyberpunk samizdat newsletter “Cheap Truth”

I already know what I think about the current state of the Empire–I want to know what other people think. From time to time I wonder if what I say is too strident, that some of you who might be otherwise willing to engage are worried about how editors might respond. Or I’m boring or I’m just so terrifyingly right that no one can find anything else to say.

I try not to be boring.

Worrying about the splatter affect has cramped me for the last six months or so. Not that I contirbuted extensively over at Futurismic but it dampened my desire to say anything that might cast a shadow over the fine writers associated with that project and their hopes for careers in the field.

I plan to move to a single person bully pulpit some time in the next month and we’ll see what kind of trouble my loud mouth can get me into.

Best regards,

Alan

My server has been inaccessible for months. I finally bit the bullet and transferred to a new web host. Since I can’t access the old server, I had to rely on an out of date backup. What few articles were posted between the end of October and the end of December when I lost command are vanished forever into the void.

New hosting company. I’ve been losing emails sporadically since last fall. If you’ve sent me somthing and I’ve been silent, it’s not because I don’t love you. That’s the good news. The old hosting company has been unresponsive to my request to transfer this domain name to a new domain name host. I only have a couple of months before the domain name is up for renewal. Yoikes and away!

The forum is gone for the moment. Since it was never used that much I might not invest the effort to resurrect it.

Best regards,

Alan