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Books Bizarre
Frontispiece by Joe Coleman for Adam Parfrey’s Cult Rapture (Feral House)
Each month we pick a good selection of books we think will be of interest to readers of the Combat Diaries of the Alternative Fortean Times. Readers are reminded that with the exception of the books of Colin Bennett and Phil O’Brien, we do not sell the books shown, and all enquiries should addressed to the publishers, if you can locate them! Our own address is sharkley1@panzerben1.fsworld.co.uk for any other enquiries. We cannot supply names and address or telephone numbers in many cases. These are all rapidly disappearing from the snail routes of the hard world, rather like the morning postal service and the local post office. British publishers are traditionally shy people who are for the most part are rather blushing about being in trade, commercial selling, and the vulgarity of making business profits. Our absolutely useless automated telephone systems have wiped out the straight telephone call to both the monkey and the organ grinder. Publishers, having in most cases a death wish, split their operation into scores of labels which in turn split yet again. The larger corporations have no face, no name, and absolutely no character or identity. They change overnight rather like Orwell’s writing on the wall in 1984. They give no information beyond hand-outs which are more like holiday brochures than catalogues, and the editors (who change every month) won’t speak to anyone. In British publishing, plans and policies are still secret, well locked up in the Victorian west wing like a mad and deformed relative. If an alien wanted somewhere to hide, a large British book corporation would be a damned good choice. So, best of luck to you book hunters!
Greenhill Books
London NW11 9NN
Luftwaffe Over America by Manfried Griehl
This ground-breaking study by renowned German aviation specialist Manfred Griehl, unearths the Nazi’s long-term plan to attack America. Griehl proves that Germany was far more technologically advanced by the end of 1944 than was previously suspected. Alongside detailing the plot to raid the US, he uncovers the Nazi’s nuclear projects and their chilling plans for nuclear rockets.
100 black-and-white photographs and 40 line drawings.
Helion & Company Limited 26 Willow Road, Solihull, West Midlands B91 UE Tel. 0121 705 3393 info@helion.co.uk
Hitler’s Miracle Weapons by Friedrich George
How close did Hitler come to his dream of developing nuclear weapons? And what evidence is there for the design, testing, and production of such weapons? Volume 1 in the Hitler’s Miracle Weapons series begins to answer these questions in great detail. Following an introductory section, outlining the Nazi atom bomb programme, this book investigates the enormous variety of craft the Luftwaffe began to either adapt, or develop anew, that would be used to carry such weapons of mass destruction. The jpeg 4inluded the innovative Horten XV111 and the lighter versions such as the Arado Ar E555, Messerschmitt P1107 and 1108, and Junkers 132 and 140. After analysing a wide variety of bombs and carrier systems, the author gives his opinion as regards why German ultimately failed in the attempt to produce usable nuclear weapons before the Allies. Complete with sixteen colour plates, profiling various Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine craft, this is a compelling and controversial work. Helion hardback, with 16 colour plates and 30 black-and-white photographs and maps.
Project 1944: Heinkel 177 A-5 with radiological bomb and Blohm & Voss aircraft suspended beneath as a flying fuel tank.
Reichmarshal Herman Goering was so convinced in 1940 that his Luftwaffe was invincible that he decreed that only refinements of existing types need be considered – there was no more need for research and development, the war would be short and sharp. The Battle of Britain and the flawed invasion of the Soviet Union changed all that. Germany needed all the technological muscle it could muster. From mid-1941 onwards the brakes were off and some of the finest minds in aerodynamics turned their thoughts to war-winning aircraft of a new generation. With access to much previously unpublished information Dieter Herwig and Heinz Rode bring to life futuristic shapes that might have terrorised the allies had the war gone beyond 1945.
The Prankster and the Conspiracy by Adam Gorightly
Thornley helped his high school buddy Greg Hill invent the comedic religion of Discordianism in dull suburban Southern California in the late 1950s. It was dedicated to the worship of Eris, the Greek goddess of Chaos. Its flavor can be gleaned from this bit of powerful magick, the Turkey Curse, from its holy book, the Principia Discordia: "Face...towards the direction of the negative aneristic vibration that you wish to neutralize. Begin waving your arms in any elaborate manner and make motions with your hands as though you were Mandrake feeling up a sexy giantess. Chant, loudly and clearly: GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE! The results will be instantly apparent."
Thornley joined the Marines in 1959, where one of his buddies at the El Toro Marine Base was Lee Harvey Oswald, an openly communist "outfit eight ball" known to his fellow grunts as "Oswaldskovitch."
Thornley was living in
New Orleans when John F. Kennedy was killed, hanging out, according to his
own recollections (which some friends suspect Thornley invented) with a
curious cast of characters. Among them were some unfortunates caught in
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s feckless investigation into
the JFK assassination.
In the mid-’60s Thornley
headed back west and became a major writer for the first modern
libertarian ’zine, The Innovator. In those years he also became an
advocate of the early SoCal free love cult Kerista, which neopagan
historian Margot Adler credits, says Gorightly, as "the true beginnings of
the neopagan movement in contemporary culture."
He spent the last years of his life (he died in 1998) occasionally washing dishes and living in storm drains, and hanging out as a local eccentric in Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood. A sad fate for someone dedicated to spreading forces of upheaval and chaos: from his Discordianism to his advocating a libertarian diaspora populating stateless floating cities in The Innovator, to his inspiration of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s classic trilogy, Illuminatus! to all the aftershocks spreading from that earthquake of a novel.
Thornley, a strange and troubled man, served Eris to the end, and he proved that proof that while you don’t have to be crazy to warp American culture, it helps.
Trauma Room One
By Charles Crenshaw M.D.
with J. Gary Shaw, D. Bradley Kizzia, J.D., Gary Aguilar, M.D.,and Cyril
Wecht, M.D., J.D.
T CHARLES A. CRENSHAW, M.D., a Texas native, is Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Surgery and a current member of the Board of Directors of the Tarrant County Hospital District in Fort Worth. He received his BS from Southern Methodist University and his MS from East Texas State University. He worked on his Ph.D. at Baylor University Graduate Research Institute in 1957 and, in 1960, he earned his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He interned at Veteran's Administration Hospital and completed his residency at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he worked for five years. He has taught at many institutions including the UT Southwestern Medical School. He has been honored with inclusions in numerous medical and professional societies and has published extensively. .
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Colin Bennett Phil O’Brien Colin Bennett
Politics of the Imagination (the life, work, and Ideas of Charles Fort) was given The Anomalist Award for Best Biography, 2002. The Foreword is by John Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies, the UFO classic made recently into a film starring Richard Gere.
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Head Press Manchester 2002
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Gary S. Bekkum wrote:“Drama requires conflict. Jack bills himself as a ‘theatrical physics doing web theater. Creativity requires passion. Jack wants to escape from mainstream science and the boring universe. Fortunately recent observations in cosmology may signal the beginning of the end of the boring universe.”The theme of this book is the possibility of “metric engineering Einstein’s curved space-time with dark energy to make weightless warp drives, star gate time travel wormholes to the inelegant parallel universes next door in hyperspace and why there is something rather than nothing.”
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Maybe it should go down on its knees and praise the gods as it walks amongst the vast hosts of the dead.
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“Tony Allen is a brilliant stand-up comedian and seminal figure in the history of British comedy. Currently running workshops and gig all over the country and at festivals, this is the first volume of what he calls ‘the fruits of at least 25 years full-time work, play, and mischief’. Founder of Alternative Cabaret, he massively extended the possibilities of the stand-up format by challenging the cheap bigotry of the comedy scene, making it wild, confrontational, and absurd. The bravery and inventiveness of his work has led comedians to describe him as ‘the master’, while the Independent called him ‘a sell-out alternative who has not sold out’. Gothic Image Publications
Box 2568 Glastonbury Somerset BA6 8XR, UK. (44)
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David Jinks, author of The Monkey and the Tetrahedron Paraview Pocket Books ISBN: 074348293X
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Instant brain photography. Compares well with Strindberg’s Occult Diary and Hunter S. Thomson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Definitely essential reading for the 21st Century. Here’s some of what you are in for: “On July first, the smoke alarm at the house in Woodstock, which had previously been disabled in a lightening storm, blatted twice as 5:34 in the morning and then ceased. Thinking this number somehow significant, I web-searched and located a professor Henry D.I. Alarbarel who was resident at Scripps Oceanographic Institute doing research into chaos theory. I was later informed that Alarbarel’s research on reflections from a shark’s skin is actually in the Ph.D dissertation of a Turkish physicist with an interest in numerology to whom I had sent the original email inquiring about the possible significance of 5:34 a.m.” Now don’t despise this folks
–it has a ring of Sonnabend, who, in Lawrence Weschler’s Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder went mad analysing the memory pathways of carp. It smacks also of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, and that’s good enough for anybody. But despite this, the truly terrifying claim of the author is that the book is NOT fiction. Yankee Oracle Press 511 Avenue of the Americas –PMB 173 New York NY 1001—8436 USA. A Magick mirror communication tel:212-727-0002 global or 800-356-6796 Magickorders@aol.com |
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Tony Allen: A Summer in the Park
Foreword by Ken Campbell
The ghosts of baying mobs and demos past all stalk this turf – mass assemblies of chartists, Victorian rioters and all those famous and infamous last words uttered by the Tyburn gallows. Hard acts to follow. ‘If you hear anyone swear at Speakers’ Corner and you’re offended by it, bless you, then you can go and tell a policeman. Then and only then, can they take appropriate action. What we can’t have here is the police going around being offended on their own initiative.’ ‘If you hear anyone swear at Speakers’ Corner and you’re offended by it, bless you, then you can go and tell a policeman. Then and only then, can they take appropriate action. What we can’t have here is the police going around being offended on their own initiative.’ My ego swells in proportion to the size of the crowd, reminding me to transcend the cheap laugh and reveal the truth beyond. Oh yes, they don’t call me Lofty Tone for nothing. There’s a crowd of over two hundred. Up at the front, a dozen or so outraged Muslims are waving their arms in the air, shouting at the speakers and flourishing copies of the Koran; an equal number of Christians are jeering these hecklers and cheering-on the platform; open copies of the Bible can be seen above their heads with fingers pointing at bits of text. The rest of the crowd are pretty noisy as well. A lot of them are non-partisan – simply regular hecklers and thrill seekers joining in for the entertainment value. Their tone is heavily ironic but nonetheless spirited. Nothing can prepare you for the Hyde Park speaking experience. The performance dynamics are unique. The close proximity of other meetings and the robust heckling tradition make Speakers’ Corner unlike any other forum of public performance. Having an audience of easily distracted browsers harbouring hit and run snipers demands a house style of ‘dramatic conflict’ raw and obvious. A take-no-prisoners gladitorial confrontation with the speakers as devil’s advocate remains the preferred tried and tested format. Even the rough-house of street theatre is subtle by comparison.” Freedom Press (London 2004) ISBN 1-904491-04-9 £8.50
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Global Circles, Clements Farm, Wheatley, Bordon Hants GU35 9PA CORNELIA - half corn dolly and half space alien (a grey) - may be the oldest crop circle cartoon character anywhere on Earth. She has been appearing in “The Cereologist”, “The Cerealogist”, and “The Circular” ever since the summer of 1990, in the golden hey-day of circledom.
Cornelia, The Crop Circle Alien is a pocket-sized 30-page booklet of some of the earlier cartoons. It would make an excellent stocking stuffer for the holidays, an innocent trick-or-treat item for Hallowe’en, or a unique birthday present for anyone Fortean.
“Required reading!” – The Alien Educator. “Bestseller on Zeta 2 Reticuli!” – London Review of Books. “Reminds me of my wife!” – Julius Caesar. “I miss you, babe!” – Face on Mars. “A pack of lies!” – Doug and Dave.
Price £3.50 GBP, 5.00 Euros, or $6.00 USD, including p&p. Please make cheques or international money orders payable to Christine Rhone, 29 Saint Andrew’s Square, London W11 1RH, U.K.
Flash! All real profits will be donated to Fantasy Management Rehab Dot Org of Zeta 2 Reticuli!
Christine Rhone
Born New York City, dual citizen USA and France. B.A. in fine arts and humanities. Many art exhibitions in the US, translator, educator, author. Gardener, world traveller and Mother of Cornelia.
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Cosimo Classics
Fort is the great philosopher of such eternal cosmic instability. In his view, both conscious and what we like to call objective materiality run along octaves of appearances in a world of intermediate states. In his work, the absolute real and the absolute unreal of mechanistic science become Platonic approximations., impossible
as the limit in the Calculus, or the contact between the lovers in Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn. In this he is the first postmodern thinker of the 20th century. Just one of Charles Fort’s achievements is that he casts a new light on our great institution of Skeptical Reason. Objective factual certainty becomes wonder management, a kind of psychic scaling by means of which disturbing anomalies, paradoxes and contradictions are controlled rather verified, distanced rather objectified – if only in order to keep us sane.” Charles Fort’s Lo! and Wild Talents are also available in this series. Cosimo Classics www.cosimobooks.com US £14.95 ISBN 1-59605-030-6
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Headpress is a critically acclaimed independent publishing house, at the forefront of cutting-edge publishing since 1991.Home to Headpress Journal and the book imprints Critical Vision and Diagonal, Headpress is devoted to producing stylish and distinctive books by new and celebrated writers and artists. Subject matter for Headpress books is wide ranging but can collectively be termed as “pop culture”. Headpress entered the world of book publishing in 1992 with a collection of comic strips entitled Killer Komix. The print-run — comprised of 1,000 copies in paperback and sixty numbered hardback editions — are now particularly scarce. However it was with Critical Vision in 1995, a collection of new essays and updated articles from early, out-of-print editions of Headpress, that the Headpress book imprint — Critical Vision — was launched. Dedicated to works of non-fiction, Critical Vision books cover a broad base of subject matter and have come to be regarded with some esteem word-wide.
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The Books of Scott Littleton
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Scott is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is a brilliant user-friendly academic who has written important books on anthropological themes. He is also honest and brave enough to state his belief that we are being visited by various levels of alien beings, and have been visited in the past. He is thoroughly convinced that our culture has been shaped by alien ideas. Being an anthropologist of course, he can bring forward a lifetime of gathered evidence and research to support such an argument. He has made some most important contributions to the Jack Sarfatti discussion list in terms of his ideas about what he terms the alien “Raj.” This is his idea that we are governed by alien culture(s) in a manner analogous to the way in which the British governed India during the centuries of conquest and colonialism. Of course such an exchange of mind and culture is not only physical: it involves complex psychic relationships such as those described by E.M. Forster in his great novel, A Passage to India. Reasoning by analogy from this kind of situation to alien interaction is a most refreshing change from much gnomic gosh-golly stuff about alien presence.
Here is Scott’s brief bio which he sent us.
“My ancestor, John Littleton, arrived in VA in 1669. He was born in 1656—yes, he was 13-years-old, a true “Shropshire lad,” although a couple of centuries before Houseman wrote the poem, when he came ashore in the New World, alone and undoubtedly frightened of what lay ahead of him. He subsequently spent twelve years indentured to the captain who transported him from England. Why he shipped (or was shipped) out is still unclear. I like to think he was a runaway looking for adventure, or perhaps a fugitive accused of some misdemeanor, like poaching (shades of Shakespeare!). But he was more likely one of too many mouths to feed, and was sent off by his family. In any case, I see a novel here, too, though it probably wouldn’t involve UFOs, and hope to get around to it in the foreseeable future.”
And here is a typical exchange:
From: Scott Littleton Date: 06/11/04 00:13:05 To: John Brandenburg; shipov@aha.ru; apollinair@aol.com; cloudrider@aol.com; disclosure2003@aol.com; puthoff@aol.com; rc-losee@carolina.rr.com; lark1@cassiopaea.com; grant@cognoscence.org; dantsmith@comcast.net; brumac@compuserve.com; clsf4@cs.com; iksnileiz@earthlink.net; berkant.goeksel@elektrofluidsysteme.de; baycitymedia@email.msn.com; edgarmitchell@email.msn.com; echo@europeanufosurvey.com; mirror@europeanufosurvey.com; cmdrparker@hotmail.com; garysbekkum@hotmail.com; maitreya137_036@hotmail.com; hsd@igc.org; teddythebear@magnet.at; akimov.torsion@mail.ru; sirag@mindspring.com; wlw3@msn.com; nc@nickcook.demon.co.uk; sarfatti@pacbell.net; sharkley1@panzerben1.fsworld.co.uk; info@peaceinspace.com; keyhole@rochester.rr.com; jdering@sara.com; lensman@sbcglobal.net; krscfs@svn.net; rainman.hudson@verizon.net; nyracum@yahoo.com; pandolfi@zzapp.org Subject: RE: UFO hypotheses
Hi John,
Re the cattle mutilations, my take is a little different. I'm beginning to suspect that these seemingly inhumane procedures may have begun in the late fifties as a result of an agreement between MJ-12 (or whatever name the ultra-secret committee or agency that has managed alien affairs for the U.S. Government in the course of the last half-century or so bears) and the "Alien Raj." Cattle genitalia are remarkably similar to the human variety, and the MJ-12 folks may have been able to convince the aliens to substitute this form of dissection for what had been horrific experiments on living human abductees. It thus may, in effect, be a "humanitarian gesture" on the part of the aliens rather than simply "cruelty to animals"-although I'm sure the animal rights people wouldn't see it that way.
In any case, no, I have no proof of this whatsoever. But the persistent rumors of some sort of secret accommodation between us and them, perhaps also involving some marginal technology transfers, as well as the biological similarity just mentioned, cannot be overlooked, IMHO. Nevertheless, despite this possible "humanitarian gesture" on the "Alien Raj's" part-assuming there's any validity to my speculation-it's abundantly clear that we're still "Wogs" as far as our alien colonial masters are concerned. So yes, the sooner we can reverse-engineer their seemingly "magical" technology and dislodge them from this planet, the better off we'll be as a species, even if it means that a lot of us will perish in the process. But "a lot" is very different from total annihilation, and before we begin the uprising we'd better make damn sure that any victories we win are a bit more permanent than what the Cheyenne and their allies achieved at the expense of Custer's "blue coats" at the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Cheers, Scott
http://faculty.oxy.edu/yokatta/
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" --Sir Arthur C. Clarke
"I think we're property. . ." --Charles Fort -----Original Message----- From: John Brandenburg [mailto:jbranden@mail.ucf.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:31 AM Subject: Re: UFO hypotheses
"the fault lies both in the the stars and and in ourselves, Cassandra, for we are both part of the same thing" Pamela from Morningstar Pass Dear cognoscents, I think we are making progress, and good news, humanity still seems to be running this place ( not well, but passably) . The key problems , I think, we have to concentrate on is to reverse engineer how these "people" got here, and then how to send them packing. I that sense , I agree with Jack. To understand their culture, and their attempted "hustle" here is secondary. However, anyone who stoops to mutilating livestock is not that interesting to me. I say to them: "what you are shouts so loud, I can't hear what your saying"
John Brandenburg
"Colin Bennett" <sharkley1@panzerben1.fsworld.co.uk> 06/09/04 7:12 AM
Hello all Savants, To be fair, I think that we are expecting too of Jack (Bennett is referring in passing to Jack Sarfatti’s research into UFO propulsion –ed). Fundamentally, as he says, he is conducting an examination of the method of UFO propulsion in terms of theoretical physics. He claims he has found the answer. If he has, then it still concerns a power supply and not an encyclopaedic description of alien characteristics and culture. He sneers at cargo cult practices, citing Cortez as an example of what happens through naive hero worship. He is certainly right in his warnings about this. On the other hand, he should realize that our own product consumerism is cargo-cult psychology from corn flakes to automobiles, see Barthes Mythologies. Postmodernism of the type mentioned recently by Scott Littleton suggests that every single thing is rich in transformation symbols, archetypal shapes, and all is theatre. In this sense to understand primitive cargo-cult expectations is to understand the processes of modern image absorption, and the relation of mind and consciousness to media expectations and evolving technologies, see Erik Davies Techgnosis. If Jack has indeed found the answer, then his problems may only just be beginning. His as-yet inconceivable prototypal motor may be, say, from alien level A. Do we dare think of what the motors of levels B and C may be like? Or is the alien Raj infinite in extent? Cue for song, Jack? Colin
From: caryn anscomb Date: 09 June 2004 04:14:19 To: John Brandenburg Subject: Re: UFO hypotheses
I understand what you are saying but they are quite different to us, not only in their advanced physics. In my experience they have highly developed psi ability which the human race as a whole has yet to grasp. They are also extremely adept at playing mind games, which in my opinion makes them potentially dangerous to humanity. I am not subjected to fits of paranoia and I believe the over abundance of so-called conspiracy theories is a direct result of mass human neurosis, however I truly believe we need to remain wary. At least until proved otherwise.
John Brandenburg <jbranden@mail.ucf.edu> wrote: In my opinion, the advances in physics of the past two decades have made it possible to demystify the UFO problem. Gravity fields can be controlled by EM fields, and this allows "flying saucers." Once that intellectual quantum jump has been made, what really is left that is trancendent about UFOs? Beings abducting humans in the night, often by induceing some sort of paralysis? Multilating cattle and leaving them for their owners to find? Making circles in crops? People (humans) do all these things. The only things they do that we can't is fly around in gravity defying ships. Once we are completely succesful in turning our theory into technology, the uFO coverup can probably be ended without a serious shock to human race ( but they will have to be tough to live in what looks like a tough cosmos) john brandenburg |
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What if the Luftwaffe had managed to bomb New York and the eastern
seaboard of the US? The question isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem. By
the end of the war the Germans had developed planes such as the Ju 390 and
Me 264 that were capable of transatlantic flight. The Third Reich were
unable to produce such machines in sufficient number to launch an attack,
but if the USSR had fallen in 1942, they would have had the resources to
carry out a raid on the eastern USA.
he doctors who
tried to save President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Hospital in November
of 1963 agreed--either out of respect or fear--not to publish what they
had seen, heard, and felt. Then in 1990, one of the Dallas surgeons who
worked on JFK in Trauma Room One, Dr. Charles Crenshaw, decided after much
deliberation that the American people ought to know the truth. 
Counter Culture
Attitude is the history of British street
theatre and much more, by the man who created the Alternative Comedian
with his own often bare knuckles. It is a definitive history of grass
roots fringe theatre, and contains a detailed history of groups and
performers seen over the past 25 years. The first well-written
high-quality professional book of its kind, and an historical landmark.
Doing
Business in the 
“I park my ladder on the junction of the walkway under the trees and shout
at people to go away and leave me alone. A crowd gathers. 
Cosimo Classics have prepared this new edition of Charles Fort’s 1923
book. It has the original Introduction by Booth Tarkington, and comments
on the back cover by Colin Bennett, author of the recent biography of
Charles Fort, Politics of the Imagination. Bennett says: “There are
many books that tell of sightings of ghosts, aliens, and strange animals.
But Charles Fort’s New Lands is perhaps the only book in which
whole continents, geographies, and, indeed, planetary systems themselves
are seen in the same uncertain twilight of perception.