The Charles Fort Reader by Charles Fort

The Charles Fort Reader by Charles Fort

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The Charles Fort Reader by Charles Fort

The truth is out there Collected here in this 4-in-1 omnibus edition are all four of Charles Fort's nonfiction books. They include The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo , and Wild Talents. For over thirty years, Charles Fort sat in the libraries of New York and London, reading scientific journals, newspapers, and magazines, collecting notes on phenomena that lay outside the accepted theories and beliefs of the time. The odd phenomena in Fort's books include the occult, supernatural, and paranormal. Reported events include teleportation (a term Fort is generally credited with coining); poltergeist events; falls of frogs, fishes, inorganic materials of an amazing range; unaccountable noises and explosions; spontaneous fires; levitation; ball lightning (a term explicitly used by Fort); unidentified flying objects; unexplained disappearances; giant wheels of light in the oceans; and animals found outside their normal ranges (see phantom cat). He offered many reports of Out-of-place artifacts (OPArts), strange items found in unlikely locations. He also is perhaps the first person to explain strange human appearances and disappearances by the hypothesis of alien abduction and was an early proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, specifically suggesting that strange lights or object sighted in the skies might be alien spacecraft. Fort also wrote about the interconnectedness of nature and synchronicity. His books seem to center around the idea that everything is connected and that strange coincidences happen for a reason.

The truth is out there Collected here in this 4-in-1 omnibus edition are all four of Charles Fort's nonfiction books. They include The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo , and Wild Talents. For over thirty years, Charles Fort sat in the libraries of New York and London, reading scientific journals, newspapers, and magazines, collecting notes on phenomena that lay outside the accepted theories and beliefs of the time. The odd phenomena in Fort's books include the occult, supernatural, and paranormal. Reported events include teleportation (a term Fort is generally credited with coining); poltergeist events; falls of frogs, fishes, inorganic materials of an amazing range; unaccountable noises and explosions; spontaneous fires; levitation; ball lightning (a term explicitly used by Fort); unidentified flying objects; unexplained disappearances; giant wheels of light in the oceans; and animals found outside their normal ranges (see phantom cat). He offered many reports of Out-of-place artifacts (OPArts), strange items found in unlikely locations. He also is perhaps the first person to explain strange human appearances and disappearances by the hypothesis of alien abduction and was an early proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, specifically suggesting that strange lights or object sighted in the skies might be alien spacecraft. Fort also wrote about the interconnectedness of nature and synchronicity. His books seem to center around the idea that everything is connected and that strange coincidences happen for a reason.

MRS. Charles Fort's books include We Did Not Fear the Father: New and Collected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2012), We Did Not Fear the Father: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2012), and We Did Not Fear the Father: New and Selected Poems The Town Clock Burning (Carnegie Mellon University Press, Classic Contemporary Series) and BELLADONNA'S SUPPER CLUB WALTZ (The Backwaters Press, 2013). Fort's poems have featured in The Best American Poetry 2003, The Best American Poetry 2000, Best of Prose Poem International, and The American Poetry Review, among other journals, publications, and anthologies. The Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of the Arts was founded by him. Fort, a former MacDowell fellow, is now writing a novel called The Last Black Hippie in Connecticut.

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ISBN 13 9781604595826
ISBN 10 1604595825
Titel The Charles Fort Reader
Autor Charles Fort
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag A & D Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr 2008-12-10
Seitenanzahl 652
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