Apr 15 2008

Charles Fort News!

Yep: it’s “new book time” again. And this time it’s a very good one: namely, Charles Fort’s classic titles in one, bound volume - to be published on May 1. If you haven’t already got Fort’s books, well you should! Yes, they’re available on the Net for nothing if you know where to look. And, you can also buy the books online as separate titles. But, for me at least, a bound volume of Fort is a fantastic idea.

Here’s what the publisher has to say about The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort:

“This Encyclopedia Forteana anthologizes the cult hero’s four classic works on the strange, the unexplained, and the just plain weird: The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands. It features Fort’s complete, unabridged text and a subject index.

“Here are the four books that invented our understanding of the paranormal. These are cult hero Charles Fort’s defining records of bizarre, haunting, strange, and inexplicable “facts” for which science cannot account: Frogs falling from the skies. Mysterious airships in an age before flight. Monsters. Poltergeists. Floating islands. Teleportation (a term Fort invented).

“These are the works that moved novelist Theodore Dreiser to write: ‘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.’

“Now, Fort’s classic investigations are newly collected with a preface by biographer Jim Steinmeyer. Complete with a full subject index, here is the definitive Fort anthology for our times.

“About the Author: Born in Albany, New York, in 1874, Charles Fort made the study of unexplained phenomena his life’s work. After achieving modest success as a short-story writer and novelist, Fort began his work researching anomalous phenomena in the early 1920s, tirelessly cataloguing episodes of spontaneous combustion, spaceships, poltergeists, and other experiences and events that had been written off by science. A lasting influence on the evolution of science fiction as well as on science itself, Fort remains one of the most fascinating and polarizing figures in all of Americana. He died in 1932 in New York City.”

And speaking of Fort, doubtless he would be proud of this one!

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