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This scholarly exploration of the borderlands between science and fantasy features four complete works by the redoubtable Charle Fort (1874-1932): The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands. All concern the bizarre phenomena unexplained by traditional science that the author spent the better part of three decades documenting: flying saucers, telekinesis, sudden showers of fish from the sky, stigmata, poltergeists, and spontaneous combustion (to name a few). Fort's florid style and freakish subjects were much critiziced by his contemporaries, but he was defended and admired by an equal number of readers, including such noteworthies as Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Stimulating, bewildering, and intoxicating, this intellectual tour de force is a must for lovers of science fiction as well as science facts.
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of
the author Charles Fort. Dealing with various types of anomalous
phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and
inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the
possible existence of creatures generally held to be mythological,
disappearances of people under strange circumstances, and many
other phenomena, the book is historically considered to be the
first written in the specific field of anomalistics. The title of
the book referred to what he termed the "damned" data - data which
had been damned, or excluded, by modern science because of its not
conforming to accepted guidelines. Fort believed that mainstream
scientists are trend followers who believe in what is accepted and
popular, and never look for a truth that may be contrary to what
they believe. Fort was one of the first major writers to deal
extensively with paranormal and thus The Book of the Damned should
be considered an important and formulative work. Charles Hoy Fort
was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.
Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize
various such phenomena.
The Fortean Collection is comprised of all five existing books by
Charles Fort, THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED, NEW LANDS, LO , WILD TALENTS,
and his only novel THE OUTCAST MANUFACTURERS. The Outcast
Manufacturers is the only published novel by Charles Fort. Fort
wrote ten novels, though only one, The Outcast Manufacturers was
published in 1909 and was later serialized in the American edition
of Pearson's Magazine. Only five chapters were published in
Pearson's. The Book of the Damned deals with various types of
anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic
and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the
possible existence of creatures generally held to be mythological,
disappearances of people under strange circumstances, and many
other phenomena, the book is historically considered to be the
first written in the specific field of anomalistics. The title of
the book referred to what he termed the "damned" data - data which
had been damned, or excluded, by modern science because of its not
conforming to accepted guidelines. Wild Talents recounts a wide
variety of odd phenomena, Fort largely disregards his previous
teleportation theory. Rather than a vague "Cosmic joker," as he
postulated in his earlier books, the responsibility for these
occurrences are freak powers that occur in the human mind, that
cannot be naturally developed, but are there as a sort of throwback
to primeval times. New Lands deals primarily with astronomical
anomalies. Fort expands in this book on his theory about the
Super-Sargasso Sea - a place where earthly things supposedly
materialize in order to rain down on Earth - as well as developing
an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. Lo was
details a wide range of unusual phenomena. In the final chapter of
the book he proposes a new cosmology that the earth is stationary
in space and surrounded by a solid shell which is (in the book's
final words) .." not unthinkably far away." Charles Fort's parade
of scientific anomalies frames the larger anomaly that is human
existence. Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher
into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are
used to characterize various such phenomena.
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Lo! (Paperback)
Charles Fort
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R597
Discovery Miles 5 970
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Lo! Was Charles Fort's third book. In it Fort examines a multitude
of scientific anomalies. Fort is widely credited to have coined the
now-popular term teleportation in this book, and here he ties his
previous statements on what he referred to as the Super-Sargasso
Sea into his beliefs on teleportation. He would later expand this
theory to include purported mental and psychic phenomena in his
fourth and final book, Wild Talents.
Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing
poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and
frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was
originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book
remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking
research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the
imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific
explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and
documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers
and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was
somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching
these strange events and collected these reports from publications
sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series
of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this
day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often
stranger than fiction, then this book is for you.
Charles Fort's classic recording of unexplained, paranormal events
and phenomena offer fascinating insights into bizarre occurrences
the author felt had been unjustly damned from formal, scientific
study. The title derives from the author's perception that the
book's subjects were so stigmatized and excluded from ordinary
scientific inquiry that they had become 'damned'. Perhaps
permanently forbade for formal study, the oddities and unexplained
events in this text were felt worthy of attention by the author,
who eventually became an authority on anomalous phenomena. The
topics in Fort's thesis include unexplained disappearances of large
groups of people, frogs and fish suddenly raining from the sky, the
possibility that mythical beasts such as giants exist, UFOs
manifest as glowing and sometimes moving lights in the sky, and
bizarre weather phenomena. Fort attributes credence to many of
these oddities, and argues that science - by dismissing them - has
become a religion in itself.
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Lo! (Hardcover)
Charles Fort
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R993
Discovery Miles 9 930
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Charles Fort's classic recording of unexplained, paranormal events
and phenomena offer fascinating insights into bizarre occurrences
the author felt had been unjustly damned from formal, scientific
study. The title derives from the author's perception that the
book's subjects were so stigmatized and excluded from ordinary
scientific inquiry that they had become 'damned'. Perhaps
permanently forbade for formal study, the oddities and unexplained
events in this text were felt worthy of attention by the author,
who eventually became an authority on anomalous phenomena. The
topics in Fort's thesis include unexplained disappearances of large
groups of people, frogs and fish suddenly raining from the sky, the
possibility that mythical beasts such as giants exist, UFOs
manifest as glowing and sometimes moving lights in the sky, and
bizarre weather phenomena. Fort attributes credence to many of
these oddities, and argues that science - by dismissing them - has
become a religion in itself.
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