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Charles Hoy Fort's Short Stories
Charles Hoy Fort attained an international reputation as the author of four iconoclastic books and was described in his obituary as the "Foe of Science" by the New York Times in 1932. Fort expressed his doubts about prevailing scientific doctrines and called into question "data" which was shunned or ignored by most scientists. Fort's heretical views expressed in The Book of the Damned (1919), New Lands (1923), Lo! (1931), and Wild Talents (1932) have attracted an audience largely among those interested in his "data" of strange phenomena, such as sea-serpents and poltergeists, and among science fiction writers, who were inspired by Fort's speculations upon interplanetary visitors. Although these books have been reprinted several times, Fort's other writings have been neglected by all but a handful of writers..
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The short stories of Charles Fort which are collected into this book constitute most, (if not all), of those originally published between 1905 and 1907, one from 1910, and one which was found only in a copy of the typescript. These have all been identified with Fort's name as the author or from other records; but, there are titles to other stories, which may have been published anonymously or which never survived past the galley proofs.
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Charles Hoy Fort's Short Stories
Charles Hoy Fort attained an international reputation as the author of four iconoclastic books and was described in his obituary as the "Foe of Science" by the New York Times in 1932. Fort expressed his doubts about prevailing scientific doctrines and called into question "data" which was shunned or ignored by most scientists. Fort's heretical views expressed in The Book of the Damned (1919), New Lands (1923), Lo! (1931), and Wild Talents (1932) have attracted an audience largely among those interested in his "data" of strange phenomena, such as sea-serpents and poltergeists, and among science fiction writers, who were inspired by Fort's speculations upon interplanetary visitors. Although these books have been reprinted several times, Fort's other writings have been neglected by all but a handful of writers..
[...]
The short stories of Charles Fort which are collected into this book constitute most, (if not all), of those originally published between 1905 and 1907, one from 1910, and one which was found only in a copy of the typescript. These have all been identified with Fort's name as the author or from other records; but, there are titles to other stories, which may have been published anonymously or which never survived past the galley proofs.
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http://www.resologist.net/introe2.htm
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