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He concluded they were not just rocks, but intelligently designed documents, the recorded history of an ancient, pre-deluge civilization. For 15 years he decoded the rock book texts and images he found embedded in stone, and soon began painting and photographing what he found. It was an alien world that few other than Shaver could see. Shaver also wrote essays to compliment his paintings. He wrote of the people and customs of Earth's pre-history-the half human, half fish Mermen and women-documenting their daily lives in intimate detail. He left behind a body of work that has languished in obscurity for decades. Richard Toronto has gathered together the largest collection of Shaver's art ever to see print. Presented in two volumes, with more than 300 illustrations, Rokfogo: The Mysterious Pre-Deluge Art of Richard S. Shaver presents the paintings, photographs, and essays that made up Richard Shaver's ante-diluvian cosmology. Now considered an Outsider artist, Shaver was a pulp fiction writer during Amazing Stories' golden era. Shunned by mainstream science fiction fans for his radical ideas, Shaver died in obscurity in 1975, leaving behind his legacy of the sensual art of the ancients.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011079176465,"sku":"NIN9780991139620","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51295384371473,"sku":"GOR014219241","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0991139623.jpg?v=1751266948"},{"product_id":"nudist-camp-confidential-book-richard-toronto-9780991139682","title":"Nudist Camp Confidential","description":"When beautiful, bi-racial private eye, Paloma Liu Tsong wins a two week stay at Sunland Vacation Camp, she didn't know she'd have to remove her clothes to claim it, or that the camp administrator would hire her to find a stolen coffin belonging to the famous Hollywood psychic, The Incredible Karswell.\nWhat should have been a laid back summer of fun and sun became a sinister plot by persons unknown to control time itself, and Paloma soon finds her name on a serial killer's hit list that puts her on the fast track to¿MURDER.\nNudist Camp Confidential is the strangest tale yet from the Frisco Detective case files!","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53131574706449,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53131574935825,"sku":"NIN9780991139682","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780991139682.jpg?v=1785408531"},{"product_id":"shavertron-book-richard-toronto-9780991139606","title":"Shavertron","description":"Science fiction fan clubs have cranked out thousands of fanzines since Ray Palmer mimeographed the very first one in 1930. Out of these thousands, only three were dedicated to the science fiction phenomenon known as the Shaver Mystery. There was a reason for this: SF fandom blackballed the Shaver Mystery and its namesake, Richard Shaver from the SF community. The first Shaver Mystery fanzine to enter this hostile environment was the original and best of the lot--The Shaver Mystery Magazine. Produced by Richard Shaver himself, it was typeset and printed on an offset press. It ran for nine issues (a 10th is rumored to exist) between 1947 and 1949. The Shaver Mystery Club Letterzine followed shortly thereafter. Typed and mimeographed by a small group of Shaver Mystery fans, it produced 16 issues. But by 1950, Dick Shaver had abdicated his throne as leader of the Shaverism movement to become a Wisconsin farmer. Without Shaver and his Shaver Mystery Club to support the fan base, Shaver Mystery fanzines died out forever. Or so everyone thought. Fast forward to 1979, the year the first issue of Shavertron: Your Only Source of Post-Deluge Shaverania rolled off a mimeograph machine. The world had changed in the 29 years since the last Shaver Mystery fanzine saw print. Richard Shaver was no longer among the living and the disco era was well underway. A young fanzine editor named Richard Toronto began to redefine the Shaver Mystery for the post-modern age. Shavertron became the longest-lived Shaver Mystery fanzine, with 29 issues to its credit. Out-of-print for nearly 25 years, this elusive icon of the Shaver Mystery saga is now being offered in four volumes. 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