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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.
Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.
On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.
Bryan Appleyard
Before science and technology took hold of our lives we called them different things: angels, demons, fairies. But in a world in which man has discovered his cosmic insignificance, our need for aliens has reached the stars - and our search for them has drawn our gaze upwards rather than to the bottom of the garden. Since 1947 (Year Zero in the modern history of alienology thanks to a flurry of activity from the first sighting of a 'flying saucer' to the infamous Roswell Incident), there has been a deluge of sightings, abductions, cover-ups, conspiracies and all their associated sub-plots from cattle mutilation to anal probes.
How did we get here? And what does our obsession with all things alien, whether extraterrestrial or manufactured, say about us in a post-religious world? Venturing fearlessly into the realms of myth, paranoia and the just plain weird, Bryan Appleyard attempts to make sense of the alien phenomenon by exploring not just the close encounters but also the ways in which we have rationalised or celebrated them.
An engaging analysis of the UFO/Alien phenomenon that also looks into what it means to be human in this day and age and the ramifications of our search for extra terrestrial life, through the medium of abduction stories, Sci-Fi history and philosophical and sociological discussion.
7 Apr 2008 21:23 | (0) comments | Books
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