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Publisher: Copeland and DayPublication date: 1896Subjects: Fiction / GeneralFiction / AnthologiesFiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Times twice removed
This volume was first published in 1896. It is made up of ten short stories, written by an English Canadian, but all set in a French Canadian village. The pieces are intertwined not only by the setting, but also by some persons who appear in more than onestory.
The author is well aware of the wave of modernization, industrialisation and urbanisation sweeping Eastern Canada in the second half of the 19th century, and he realises that it will bring revolutionary change to heretofore quaint, traditional villages. So the stories are a look back to the ruralQuebec of old from the turn of the century, with the first signs of urban intrusion carefully depicted, and though they are not condemned or regretted, a touch of nostalgia is hard to miss.
Present-day readers who care for this theme (as opposed to the purely literary attractions like impressive characters and the artful interweaving of stories)thus enjoy a double perspective, from the penultimate turn of the century as well as the last one. This work of art is thus also of considerable importance to the social historian.
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Reifying the bibliographical Zeitgeist...
In A Union List of Appellate Court Records and Briefs : Federal and State, Whiteman and Campbell outline a new type of Supreme Court brief aesthetics based in contemporary literary theory and exemplified by a variety of imaginative texts, from Anglo-American canonical poetry and fiction to avant-garde music and film. The innovative work links philosophical and aesthetic issues inherent to collections of state and federal briefs, with postmodernism continuing and amplifying the central concerns of romanticism, including subject formation,the disruptive effects of the human body; and the unique forms of textuality found in the writings of lawyers arguing before the appellate courts of Louisiana and New Jersey.Messiers Whiteman and Campbell, discuss such conflicts in psychoanalytic terms, although the book demonstrates how imaginative texts complicate psychoanalytic models, especially in legal bibliography. Perhaps through the influence of Campbell (the droll Frick to the obtuse Frack of Whiteman), the Union List of Appellate Court Records keeps reinventing itself through conflict via the exploration of limits, that is, by surviving extreme experience more than from the results of the dialectic.State or federal? -- who cares as the briefs dissolve in a world affirming, karmic Weltansicht.

Brilliant!
Whiteman and Campbell manage to turn a truly dull subject into fascinating reading!Should be on everyone's "must read" list.

What Is a Union List?
Though Whiteman and Campbell fail to answer a fundamental question in their all-too-brief introduction (just what is a union list?), this undaunted reader was pleased to find a wealth of information in thisslender tome.Richly delivering on the title's promise, Whiteman andCampbell do indeed offer a scrupulously alphabetized list of court recordholdings, encompassing both the federal and state judiciaries.

Moreover,this helpful work includes addresses, telephone numbers, formats andlending policies of the myriad law libraries profiled herein.While I willprobably never ever again refer to this work, it is edifying to know thatfastidious scholars Whiteman and Campbell have provided me with theknowledge that the North Carolina Division of Archives & History'sCultural Resources Department holds case files of the North CarolinaSupreme Court from 1800 to 1939.

The publisher is to be commended forprinting the book using an attractive serif font on pleasing, cream-coloredpaper.The cover and binding also seem durable enough to stand years ofdisuse on a forgotten shelf. ... Read more

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This awe-inspiring art-book features over 30 covers by some of the biggest names in comics! J. Scott Campbell, David Finch, Eric Basaldua, David Nakayama, Joe Benitez, Al Rio, Nei Ruffino, Billy Tucci and Talent Caldwell as well as many others are featured in stunning cover gallery that includes all variants, exclusives, and reprint covers from one of the biggest selling titles of 2008. These covers will not be available or reprinted anywhere else so get your copy while you still can! Comic Shop Exclusive by Mike DeBalfo - limited to 500 issues. ... Read more

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The Dream Horse
My father bought me this book when I was 11 and now that I am 18 Idecided to read it again.The book is as sweet and charming as it was when I first read it in 6th grade.The story is about a sophomore in high school, Miranda, who has recently moved to the U.S. from Europe.Her sister Joey wanted to spend her senior year in the United States and graduate from a real American High School so they are living with their grandmother in Virginia for the year.All Miranda has ever wanted is a horse of her own.Her parents agree that for the 9 months that she will be in Virginia she can buy a horse for $300.At that price the only horse she can find is Drummer, an ugly, well formed jumper.Miranda looks beyong Drummer's ugly exterior and finds in him a kindred spirit.Drummer's previous owner Gray is at first resentful of Miranda for having to give up his horse but later becomes important in Miranda's life as he helps her train Drummer for the Claybourne Cup.
This story is wonderful in what it is: a sweet story of making choices, falling in love, and looking beneath the surface.The writing is very well done and the characters are believable.I only wish Virginia Campbell Scott had written more stories. ... Read more

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Good collection marred by poor paper quality.
Collecting the first seven issues of the Gen13 regular series this book has excellent artwork and entertaining stories. The big disappointment is the poor quality paper used. Worse than that used by most comic books, the paper is grey and makes all the colors murky. And whoever decided to print the original covers of the issues at 80% size and rotated so that the corners are cut off should be fired.

One of the Best Wildstorm Graphic novels of all time!
One of the Best Wildstorm Graphic novels of all time! This particular Gen13 Tradepaperback reprients the first Seven issues of Gen13: the regular series. It takes place where the first Gen13: miniseries left off. This one of Brandon Choi's Best writtem works! Brandon Choi, Jim Lee, and J Scott Campbell created this superhero team of Gen-active teens! These young people are lead by the mentor, Lynch or I/O from the WildCats: miniseries. the Gen 13 team leader is Fairchild,former college student who discovered she had more abilites then just brains!Then their is Burnout who is like Wildstorm's human torch!Grunge and Freefall, Gen-active teans who love to party! They have a love and friend relationship which is essential to the story! The RainMaker is the native-American superheroine who is also a Lesbian! She finally admitts to her sexual perference after having an on and off relationship with Bobby Lane aka Burnout! This book has wonderful characterizations and art and is considered one of the best Wildstorm titles ever made. With an acclaimed story by Brandon Choi, Jim Lee and Campbell, Art drawn by J. Scott Campbell with Alex Garner, This is a great read with Beautiful art!Also, Jim Lee and Scott Willaims apply the artwork for issues #6 and 7! Buy it!If you love comic books I know you will want this!

The best graphic novel of all time
EXCELLENT,EXCELLENT,EXCELLENT, This graphic novel has the best artwork and the best stories and has humor (something rarely seen in most except for Young Justice). It should have had a few fold out wall posters of the girls too. I guess you can't have everything. This is just a little better than Young Justice because it's a little more adult and the girls are breathtaking. Too bad their not based on real women. If Image kept J. Scott Campbell for all of Gen 13 and not just the beginning they would have sold a lot more comics. Too bad he now works on Danger Girl which isn't near as fun to read as Gen 13. Art alone cannot always sell a comic book.

Great book, great price
Gen 13. When I think of this title, I think of J. Scott Campbell's gorgeous artwork and Alex Garner's amazing inks. This book is still going strong today, even though the dynamic duo of Campbell and Garner have goneon to work on the comic Danger Girl. This book is a good place to pick up anice part of the Gen 13 story, and is good reading material on a rainy day.Pick it up! ... Read more

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From the secret laboratory of renowned videogame developer Double Fine Productions comes this incredible collection of funnies created by the one and only Scott C, art director of Psychonauts and Brütal Legend. Chock full of 300 strips, as well as the coolest behind-the-scenes pages you ll ever find in a book, Double Fine Action Comics by Scott C is an absolute for anyone who enjoys frequent amusement and side effects like laughter.

The Really True Myth of Double Fine Action Comics...

Once upon a morning, way back in 2002, Scott C stumbled into work at Double Fine Productions. On that particular morning, he decided to get extra inspired and draw a comic to warm up the creative side of his brain. It depicted a two-headed baby (also known as 2HB) and a knight doing not much of anything. Scott quickly got into an amazing groove, drawing a new comic every morning, just to see where the adventure with 2HB and the knight would go. Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine, suggested to Scott C that he never stop doing comics every morning. In fact, he was so excited about the idea, that he empowered three other Double Fine artists to join him with their own adventures: Nathan Stapley, Razmig Mavlian, and Mark Hamer. Every, single day these dudes would make comics and upload them to doublefine.com. And the world was made amazing. ... Read more

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SIEGE! The Sisterhood executes a massive raid on the Graymalkin Facility, taking their fight to the Uncanny X-Men, and you won't believe the ferocity. No one is safe! Everybody fights! But why? How? What do they want? And how long can violence at such an insane level last? Oh, about most of the issue. ... Read more

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This second book, The Sands of Time continues the adventures of Hermux Tantamoq, mouse and watchmaker in the imaginary city of Pinchester.When the museum announces a show of Mirrin Stentrill's latest paintings- monumental, visionary portraits of cats- Mayor Hooter Pinkwiggin vows to shut it down.Cast are touchy subject among Pinchester's mostly small-rodent population.But while militant mice organize to stop the show, most of Pinchester's stylish set is vying for invitations to the gala opening.Complications arise when a mysterious chipmunk named Birch Tentintrotter claims to have a map to the royal library of an ancient kingdom of cats.When Birch recruits Hermux to help him find the library, they discover they're not the only ones looking for it! ... Read more

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fun to read aloud
Laughed so much reading the first Tantamoq book that I started reading parts to my family--then we all realized this author reads better out loud anyway.Ordered the whole series from Amazon, but unfortunately they seem to be sold out of the 3rd in the series (another printing? hint hint).May have to go on to the 4th skipping the 3rd.

Cute Adventure
Cute adventure/mystery featuring the watchmaker turned amateur sleuth mouse, Hermux Tantamoq. Very lively story with plenty of action, suspense, and humor. This would be a great read-aloud. Although obviously the second book in the series, it wasn't too difficult to jump right in and follow Hermux on his adventures. I didn't feel like I was missing too much by not reading the first one yet. Recommended.

Hermux Tantamoq-a great book!
This was a cool book about the watch fixing mouse, Hermux Tantamoq! It is the second in a series about him, but it's just as good as the first book(which doesn't happen very much)and I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Sands of Time
It all starts when Mirrin Stentrill, puts on an artshow in the museum. When Mirrin was blind, she saw many visions and so when she recovered from her blindness, she decides to paint pictures of what she saw when she was blind. But it turns out that the pictures she paints are cats- a word no one likes to use in the city of mice and rodents. Then along comes Birch Tentintrotter, an old chipmunk, a friend of Hermux's father. He tells a secret to Hermux; a secret no one knows about, and about a map he had found in a library years ago. Birch believes that cats really did exist. To prove that, Hermux, Birch, and their friend, Linka Perflinger, set off on a journey to the Kingdom of Cats. On their journey, Hermux and his friends uncover the evidence that cats once had mice as slaves. Now, Hermux doesn't know if he's doing the right thing to find the whole truth about them.
Michael Hoeye describes all his characters and the scene very carefully and really well. I like the way he gives a personality to a character and he sticks with it. He doesn't mix Hermux and Mirrin's personality together. It's just Hermux. And it's just Mirrin.
I really enjoyed this book because of the great journey that Hermux and his friends went on. It was so exciting and I really loved how Michael Hoeye made me want to keep reading more and more!

The Sands of Time
Hermux Tantamoq, a distinguished mouse who lives in the heavily populated city of Pinchester, is sailing through life day in and day out, in his watchmaking shop, until one day, an old, weather worn chipmunk missing an ear stops by, says his name is Birch Tentintrotter,and he would like to speak to Mr. Tantamoq seinor. Hermux's father had passed away five months ago, and no friend of his from college would look like that old wreck!
Meanwhile, Hermux's friend Mirrin Stentril's first art show is causing tremendous uproar. She's been painting CATS!!! Everyone (the hamsters, mice, ferrets, squirrels etc.) knows they're not real, right? Well Hermux, Birch and aviatrix Linka Perflinger are out to prove those art critics wrong!
Michael Hoeye combines detail, vocabulary and suspense in this stunning sequel to Time Stops For No Mouse, proving never to overlook history, even if you are afraid. ... Read more

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With his first novel, Eddie's Bastard, William Kowalski broughtto the literary scene an engaging and original voice in fiction. Henow fulfills that promise in Somewhere South of Here, the tale ofa young man's search for the mother he's never met.

Growing up, Billy Mann's only link to the father who died in Vietnam and the mother who deserted him, was his hard-drinking grandfather, Thomas Mann, who raised him on a diet of fried baloney sandwiches and mythic tales of the Mann family ancestry. With Grandpa now gone, Billy is truly alone in the world. The only clue he possesses to his mother's whereabouts is her last known address, somewhere in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Propelled by hope and heartache, Billy sets off on a cross-country odyssey from his home in upstate New York.

Arriving in Santa Fe, carrying every possession he owns on the back of his motorcycle, Billy takes the first step of an intoxicating Journey of the heart as he courageously completes his rite of passage into manhood. Filled with vividly drawn characters, each of them with secret longings of their own, Billy finds his world suddenly rich with possibility--the chance for love, friendship, and finally, a family to call his own. Somewhere South of Here is a lyrical exploration of the stories that make up our lives, the redemptive power of love, and the faith that compels us to go on.

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warning for Bay Area residents
I can't really give a rating in stars, as I just started this book.(I read his previous novel and liked it pretty well.)But I'm having a hard time getting past the description of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake with which this book opens. (No, we don't call it the "Great San Francisco earthquake of 1989."It was centered further south, closer to Soquel and Aptos.)If you were there, as I was, you know that much of his description is exaggerated horse puckey, although the death count is accurate.

My Favourite Book Of 2005!!!A Wondrous Journey In AQuest For Answers!!!
This is a thoroughly enjoyable and very well well written sequel to the author's first book "Eddie's Bastard". In this book we find Billy Mann travelling to New Mexico in order to find his realmother who abandoned him at birth. The characters he meets along the way spring to life from the pages and you can almost smell the chiles frying in the New Mexico heatand be with Billy in his quest. This is an excellent book which I was lucky enough to read in one sitting and I look forward to more of Mr. Kowalski's works and I think his website is really cool too.

Captures the spirit of the desert
Captures the spirit of the desert in which it is set.

the sequel to one of the best novels I have ever read
It would have been a 5 star book if I hadn't read Eddie's Bastard first. Eddie Mann goes to Santa Fe, New Mexico to find his mother. This book was a great read from one of my new favorite authors. All three of his books have been great. Although this was probably the least great. I would reccomend this book but please read Eddies Bastard first.

the sequel to one of the best novels I have ever read
It would have been a 5 star book if I hadn't read Eddie's Bastard first. Eddie Mann goes to Santa Fe, New Mexico to find his mother. This book was a great read from one of my new favorite authors. All three of his books have been great. Although this was probably the least great. I would reccomend this book but please read Eddies Bastard first. ... Read more

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This cross-disciplinary reader gives students the opportunity to read and write about significant issues across the arts and sciences and to explore how knowledge is constructed and communicated. Thirty-eight contemporary essays are preceded by introductory chapters on writing and reading and are followed by assignment sequences that juxtapose three or more essays with a central theme. The Second Edition of Making Sense presents works by well-known authors such as Annie Dillard, Gloria Anzald?a, bell hooks, Lawrence Lessig, Ralph Ellison, and Nancy Sommers, as well as selections by lesser-known writers from a variety of fields. While the essays are arranged in alphabetical order, the text also offers alternative thematic and disciplinary tables of contents. ... Read more

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For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.

Here are eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories -- proof positive that Bradbury's magic is as potent as ever.

Sip the sweet innocence of youth, the wisdom -- and folly -- of age. Taste the warm mysteries of summer and bitterness of betrayed loves and abandoned places. These stories will set your mind spinning and carry you to remarkable locales: a house where lime has no boundaries; a movie theater where deconstructed schlock is drunkenly assembled into art; a wheat field that hides a strangely welcome enemy. These are but a few of the ingredients that have gone into Bradbury's savory cocktail. And every satisfying swallow brings new surprises and revelations.

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Not What I Was Expecting
I very much enjoyed Bradbury's Somthing Wicked This Way Comes and The October Country and, even if it was a bit slow moving, From the Dust Returned.I thought One More for the Road would be in the same vein:thought provoking, a little twisted, a little chilling.

This book does provoke some thought, mostly on the ends of lives and loves, but it is almost totally devoid of "chilling" and "creepy."My reaction to most of these stories was, "Yeah, okay, and . . .???"

The cover with its skeleton hitchhiker is totally misleading.

I think I'll look for some older, more fun Bradbury.

All of the other reviewers have missed the message
The fact is that unless you are under 50 years old, you may not be able to appreciate this collection.It was his first work in a decade and probably will be his last.Reader, beware-Bradbury will rip your heart out.

Bradbury wrote this volume while in his eighties.In this collection, which is realism-not science fiction, he told the truth ruthlessly, not how it is supposed to be, or how we tell ourselves it is.He's facing death and has no time for fairy tales.He's sifting through his life's lessons and presenting us with the outcome.Appreciate it for what it is and try to learn from it.

"Heart Transplant" portrays a man and a woman who are having an affair.While they are lying in bed, the woman decides that it's all wrong and that she'd like to fall back in love with her husband.She tells the man how she feels and asks wouldn't it be wonderful to fall back in love with their spouses.She asks him, as a favor to her, to try and fall in love with his wife again.He says-sure, knowing that he never will. Determined to do the right thing, which he knows is better for her, she gets out of bed and gives him a kiss goodbye.As the door closes, he cries knowing the love of his life walked out the door and won't return.He lied to her so that she would be happy and in a better situation (morally).

In "In Memoriam", a husband and wife are moving from their family home since it's time for them to move to a retirement community.The wife urges her husband to take down the nasty, rusted basketball hoop attached to the garage framing.It's a task he's been putting off for thirty years, ever since their son was killed in Vietnam.He knows he has to do it, but there's something he has to do first.That night, he goes out by the light of the moon and plays a final game with his son.In playing that final game, he must finally acknowledge his son's death.Up to then, he was OK, his son was just gone, but even though thirty years passed by, having the hoop in place was a symbol of his son's life.He takes it down as his wife asked, but it nearly kills him.

Love never dies, wonderful, but also horrifying since time and circumstance change nothing.Survivors don't heal, but endure, which takes a courage only the old know.

My mother told me before she died that old age wasn't for sissies.Bradbury strikes that message home.

Not his best stuff
One More for the Road is a short story collection by Ray Bradbury. It consists of 24 unrelated stories, 17 of which had never been published before. Bradbury is a master of the genre, and this book contains some really nice stories. It also contained some that fell very flat. A few of the stories grabbed my, and several others were very interesting in concept, but just weren't my style. Unfortunately a lot of the stories didn't meet either of those criteria for me.

The Nineteenth was my favorite. It was a moving story of a man mysteriously encountering he deceased father on a golf course looking for lost balls.

The Dragon Danced at Midnight was a furiously paced story of the rise of a filmmaker via the lucky accident of a drunken projectionist showing the reels of his film out of order.

Autumn Afternoon was a sad tale, of an old woman and her young niece. The niece saves calendar pages as remembrances. When cleaning out her attic the lady finds a stack of her own calendar pages from her youth, but she can't recall why she saved them.

For the rest the tales were mostly forgettable. Not bad really, just not remarkable. If you are a fan of Bradbury, feel free to give this a shot. You may like it more than I did. If you are new to the man, I'd stick with Fahrenheit 451 or the Martian Chronicles.

5 out of 10

A literary gem, though not my personal favorite
I am a fan (and writer) of the short story form, enjoy literary language, and greatly admire and identify with Mr. Bradbury's masteful ability as an old fashioned storyteller. Although this collection clearly accomplishes all of those things, it is not my most favorite of his huge body of work.

Many of the stories here are more like vignettes, also a form that I have written in at times, but give the impressions of fond memories being recalled, or merely written as excercises in the literary form. I felt unsatisfied by many of them for these reasons, despite my continued appreciation for his ability to turn a beautiful phrase. The book seems to get more interesting toward the latter half of the book.

One of the standout tales in "One More for the Road" was "The Enemy in the Wheat," a humorous tale of a man who, upon believing that a bomb from the war has landed unexploded in his wheat field, milks the potential danger for all it's worth in order to rise above his own mundane and unremarkable life. In another tale, entitled, "Fore!" A son has a fateful reunion with his father by the side of a road. Finally, "The Cricket in the Hearth" takes an ironic and funny look at how a marriage can fall into an almost ritualistic routine over time, and the unusual event that puts spice back into the couple's lives.

For me, Bradbury is at his best when his tales take place on the backdrop of the fantastical, where he shows us that no matter where in place and time we go, life and it's many wondrous aspects will always remain. Ray Bradbury is a literary scholar when it comes to exploring the human condition, and the compassion he has for his fellow man is clearly on display on each and every story he writes.

Again, I found much of the work here lacking the depth of story I'm accustomed to from Bradbury, but if you are a fan of Bradbury's overall writing style, which clearly has diminished little over the years, then this is a must-read collection.

- Gregory Bernard Banks, author of "Phoenix Tales: Stories of Death & Life"

Uneven and pathetic
We all know Ray Bradbury. We all know he has written some of the best and most disquieting stories in the world, after WW2. But this volume of short stories is very uneven, at least. Some stories are quite interesting, but some other are the pathetic love letters of an old man, a very old man, to life, even and especially when he speaks of death. The point is that there is absolutely no commitment to any human values like freedom, happiness, creativity, except in one way, what he calls himself a very « selfish » way : his freedom soon to be questioned by death, his happiness that has to be satisfied by the world and other people, even dead writers, his creativity that he sums up to drowning in metaphors. But all that is vain and of no value for the reader. What proof does he have that the very young and talented author he met once would have been anything else but a derelict forty years later. And anyway why did he turned up a derelict forty years later ? Where is the cause, where is the explanation ? Nowhere in the story where Ray Bradbury just uses a time-machine to confront the derelict with what he was forty years before, as if the key to the future was in the hands of this young man, as if the only one responsible for his dereliction forty years later were him and him only. There is no compassion for anyone in this book. And the love scene between the two old people in one of the story is absurd, even if he may tell us it is his own experience. It is absurd because it is vain : at seventy one will never be seventeen again, not even in one's head, mind or soul. This is a caricature. These stories are maybe good for some men's magazine but I understand why they were sold for nearly nothing in London in october 2004. The English at least seem to know what is pathetic or even vain and absurd.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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AN IMPORTANT RE-EXAMINATION OF AN HISTORICAL UFO CASE! - - - Were 16 alien bodies recovered from a dome-shaped device that crashed near the town of Aztec, New Mexico circa 1948? . . . Why does the FBI continue to withhold 200 pages of classified material on the case for alleged "national security reasons?" . . . Was the incident covered up with a camouflaged "front story" presided over by con men and scam artists, who were perhaps in the government's "back pocket?" . . . Did President Eisenhower make contact with aliens around the same time, thus adding weight to this and other UFO crash cases? ... Read more

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Alien technology recovered in NM before 1950? Strong case made in Scully's classic book

This is a 2008 "Conspiracy Journal" reprint of Frank Scully's original book which caused something of a stir on its publication in 1950. Scully was a successful journalist with a national profile who claimed he had information that a dome-shaped craft of non-human origin had crashed in Aztec NM in 1948, been recovered by the military and the whole incident hushed-up by the Truman administration. He also claimed a number of dead bodies of small, humanoid aliens were recovered from the crash. In 1950, no details of the 1947 Roswell crash recovery had leaked into the public domain. With the exception of Donald Keyhoe mentioning widespread Air Force mess-hall rumors of a saucer crash-recovery event in NM in his second book, the idea did not enter the mainstream until the 1980s. So in 1950, Scully's public claims were revolutionary and led to sales of 62,000 copies in several printings, an enormous number at that time. As a consequence, Scully became a minor national celebrity.

Controversy surrounds Scully's main informants Leo GeBauer and Silas Newton. These guys were financial players, oil investors and speculators who had business dealings in all the Four Corners states. Following the publication of Scully's book in 1950, the FBI went after GeBauer and Newton and started a campaign to discredit them ending with their conviction in a court in Denver when they were ordered to pay back US$18,000 to an "investor", Herman Flader. However, no other investors dealing with GeBauer or Newton ever had any complaints and all refused to testify against them, and the tenacious defamation campaign mounted by the FBI failed to make anything else stick. The Flader conviction did its job, however, and mud had stuck on Scully's expose of the Aztec crash: the book went out of print and the story slowly faded from memory.

The long introductory section to this CJ edition includes a piece by Sean Casteel summarising the evidence unearthed by UK researcher Nick Redfern, who spent a great deal of time investigating the story in the 1980s and 90s and uncovered a substantial paper trail including FBI files on GeBauer, Newton and Scully. 200 pages of documentation on the case remain classified, even after 60 years. Stan Friedman is also interviewed at length and gives his opinions on the episode and its likely authenticity, and Casteel also profiles the extensive work of respected researcher Scott Ramsey into the affair. The overall assessment is that Something Happened out there in the desert which cannot be dismissed as a hoax, and the story at core is probably true.

The text of the book itself is prefaced by an introduction by the original author whose description of the encroaching "National Security" apparatus into the lives of ordinary citizens in 1950 is highly prescient and absolutely relevant to the 21st century. The text of the original book takes up 133 pages, due to the large page format adopted by CJ enabling a greater number of characters per page and some compression.

The book is short but good, and worth reading. Without going into too much detail, Scully describes an intriguing incident involving a mysterious "scientist" reported as giving a lecture to students at the University of Colorado talking about UFOs, advanced physics and crash recoveries. He then details contemporary sightings and encounters and speculates about interplanetary travel, describes and illustrates the current aerospace industry's attempts to design disk-shaped craft which would fly (a project designed to discredit encounters with non-human-origin UFOs by alleging confusion with more prosaic aircraft), discusses Einstein and the Unified Field Theory and lists 20 questions about the management of the UFO phenomenon which he put to "Pentagon desk generals" - not one of which was answered. The episode describing the NM crash recovery is actually quite short and scant on detail, but as it was reported to Scully second-hand he simply gives the facts as he heard them and does not enter into extensive speculation about the case.

Despite - or perhaps because of - the controversy surrounding Scully's book and the FBI's persistent and ruthless campaign to discredit him and his informants, this is an important book historically. It was one of the first ever to address the UFO issue in print, pre-dating Donald Keyhoe's "The Flying Saucers are Real!" by several months, and the first ever book to discuss or even refer to credible reports of crashed and recovered alien technology.

You can still find the original 1950 hardcover book, as so many were printed and are still in circulation. However the updated 2008 CJ version containing the interviews with Redfern, Friedman et al is more informative about the history behind it all and this is the one I would recommend.
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