The Book of the Damned - Softcover

Fort, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502544857 ISBN 13: 9781502544858

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Considered to be the first of its kind, originally published in 1919, Charles Fort gives accounts of numerous unexplained phenomena, many of which would today be categorized as UFOs, anomalous weather and psychic phenomena, as well as, purports the concept and reasons why we have not made contact with aliens. Fort attempts, almost tongue in cheek, to construct a cosmology which could explain these phenomena. He proposes that the Earth's gravity only extends about 20 miles out, and that there are vast 'lands in the sky' passing above us, normally unseen. Some of these lands trap objects,--the 'super-Sargasso,'--some are shaped like giant spindles or wheels, and others are huge sentient beings. If there is life in the universe, how come we aren't visited by aliens? This is called the Fermi Paradox, proposed by Enrico Fermi in the 1950s. Fort gives a preemptive solution where he states, famously, 'I think we're property.' Fort's solution is that earth was warred over in the distant past, and now is under the control of 'something'--"all other warned off." The reason that we never meet our 'owners' is that they have no interest in talking with their 'livestock.'

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Review:

"To me no one in the world has suggested the underlying depths and mysteries and possibilities as has Fort. To me he is simply stupendous." --Theodore Dreiser

"The enfant terrible of science." --The New York Times

"The Book of the Damned whispered that there was something very wrong with how we thought about the world. Fort deliberately pushed his 'damned facts' on his readers, insisting that science had constructed its convenienttheories only by ignoring those facts that gave us trouble." --Jim Steinmeyer, author Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural

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About the Author:

Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502544857
• ISBN 13: 9781502544858
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264