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Flying Saucers Are Real! Jack Womack

Flying Saucers Are Real! By Jack Womack

Flying Saucers Are Real! by Jack Womack

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Flying Saucers Are Real is a catalogue of the Jack Womack UFO library and a history of one of the 20th century's most pervasive subcultures.

Flying Saucers Are Real! Summary

Flying Saucers Are Real! by Jack Womack

Flying Saucers Are Real! is a catalogue of the Jack Womack UFO library and a history of one of the 20th centurys most pervasive subcultures. The collection presents an unknown wealth of images taken from mid-century flying saucer books and extensive text by author-collector Womack outlining the history of the UFO phenomenon and opining on the selections. With an introduction by science fiction author William Gibson.

Flying Saucers Are Real! Reviews

In his 1956 book, 'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,' Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of Project Blue Book, examined all the evidence and concluded that further study of UFOs would be a complete waste of time. Oh, ye of little faith! The very existence of the Womack collection demonstrates incontrovertibly that UFOs are, if nothing else, the stuff that dreams are made of. Keep watching the skies! - The Washington Post
Your coffee table needs this lavish collection of retro UFO pulp fiction art - Vice
"Now it can be told. Life on this planet will never be exactly the same." - Jonathan Lethem, author of A Gambler's Anatomy and The Fortress of Solitude
"Jack Womack's fascinating research of flying saucers say more about human beings than visitors from beyond....Womack celebrates a plurality of beliefs overlapping, some competing, some desperate, but all of them - especially the tales of grey aliens - thoroughly human." Ryan Britt
"One man spent 40 years amassing the most comprehensive - and strangely beautiful collection of UFO books around. And now he's sharing it with the world." - Sweet

About Jack Womack

Jack Womack is the author of Ambient, Terraplane, Heathern, Elvissey, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Lets Put the Future Behind Us, and Going, Going, Gone. Womackss short stories have appeared in anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kusher, and Delia Sherman. His short fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in Omni, Spin, Fantasy and Science Fiction, the Washington Post Book World, Artbyte, Suddeutsche Zeitung. He has written short pieces for and appeared on BBC 1, BBC 2, and Radio Bavaria. Womack won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1994 and has taught writing at the Clarion West workshop in Seattle.

Table of Contents

21st century William Gibson on 20th century phenomena. 19 How this collection came to be; why anyone should care. 21 Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Dero. 29 Saucer slag, dead dogs, the first Man in Black. 39 Making sense of the saucers. Or, not. 87 Telepathic warnings, blonde Venusians, odd trousers, and Moon potatoes. 141 Skeptics take the field, few notice. 151 UFOs in the Aquarian Age, and after. 157 The original Man in Black and others. 183 An infinity of oddity. 239 The mind in action is a marvelous thing. 239

Additional information

GOR012611821
9781944860004
1944860002
Flying Saucers Are Real! by Jack Womack
Jack Womack
Used - Like New
Paperback
Anthology Editions
2016-09-16
288
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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