Discovering Scarfolk
by Richard Littler · first published 2014
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Scarfolk is amazing - the design is so well done. The 'Discovering Scarfolk' book is a thing of wonder [1]. Can I also recommend the first series of 'Look Around You' [2], for more 70s British strangeness. Thanks ants. Thants. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discovering-Scarfolk-Richard-Littler...…
on ““Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979”” ↗A reverse one: Scarfolk. See the book Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler [1]. "Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979. The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard,…
on “German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist” ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfolk https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Scarfolk-Richard-Littler/... It is a wonderful book.
on “Visiting Scarfolk, the most spectacular dystopia of the 1970s (2016)” ↗Skimming an Atlas Obscura article the day before yesterday and ordering the books 'Discovering Scarfolk' and 'The Scarfolk Annual' especially for the surveillance themed humor, I'm not surprised to find a post about Scarfolk on HN today ... https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/digging-through-the-ar...…
on “Visiting Scarfolk, the most spectacular dystopia of the 1970s (2016)” ↗