|
Showing 1 - 1 of
1 matches in All Departments
Charles Fort was an American researcher from the early twentieth
century who cataloged reports of unexplained phenomena he found in
newspapers and science journals. A minor bestseller with a cult
appeal, Fort's work was posthumously republished in the pulp
science fiction magazine Astounding Stories in 1934. His
idiosyncratic books fascinated, scared, and entertained readers,
many of them authors and editors of science fiction. Fort's work
prophesied the paranormal mainstays of SF literature to come: UFOs,
poltergeists, strange disappearances, cryptids, ancient mysteries,
unexplained natural phenomena, and everything in between. Science
fiction authors latched on to Fort's topics and hypotheses as
perfect fodder for SF stories. Writers like Arthur C. Clarke,
Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft, and others are
examined in this exploration of Fortean science fiction-a genre
that borrows from the reports and ideas of Fort and others who saw
the possible science-fictional nature of our reality.
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.