Flying Saucers Are Real!

by Jack Womack, William Gibson (Introduction)

Overview

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. The collection presents an unknown wealth of images taken from mid-century flying saucer books and extensive text by the author-collector outlining the history of the UFO phenomenon and opining on the selections. The book also features an introduction by science fiction author William Gibson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781944860004
Publisher:	Anthology Editions
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	453,217
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jack Womack is the author of Ambient (1987), Terraplane (1988), Heathern(1990), Elvissey (1993), Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1994), Let’s Put the Future Behind Us (1996), and Going, Going, Gone (2001). He has taught writing at the Clarion West workshop in Seattle and was the co-winner of the Philip K. Dick Award in 1994.

William Ford Gibson is a Canadian-American speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk

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

Editorial 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

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