The Fortean Collection by Charles Fort
The Fortean Collection is comprised of all five existing books by Charles Fort, THE BOK 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.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 | 9781612030579 |
| ISBN 10 | 1612030572 |
| Title | The Fortean Collection |
| Author | Charles Fort |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bottom of the Hill Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 882 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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