These are tales we are asked to believe whether couched as academic works or autobiography.įort, with his massive collections of “damned data” and whimsical theories, covered nearly every paranormal topic as well as developing the idea that “we are property” and that our understanding of the world is sadly incomplete and mistaken. Was Boyle going to tell me anything I didn’t know?Ĭharles Fort was the father of what Boyle calls “maybe fiction” – all those “occult” and paranormal studies and personal accounts, all the hidden (and usually ancient) histories, and UFO abduction stories we’ve heard of, authors like Graham Hancock, Richard Shaver, and Whitley Streiber whose accounts we either believe, judge as innocent mistakes, or regard as works of insanity. I’ve subscribed to Fortean Times for decades. I’ve long known about the Fortean influence on Arthur C. I sought out the blatantly Fortean science fiction novels: Eric Frank Russell’s Sinister Barrier and Dreadful Sanctuary and James Blish’s Jack of Eagles. I’ve read Damon Knight’s and Jim Steinmeyer’s biographies of Charles Fort.
I’ve read Charles Forts four famous books. I’ve known about Charles Fort and his relationship to science fiction for 40 years since encountering Brian Ash’s The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Robert Holdstock’s Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. (Evidently, McFarland and other academic publishers think there are no non-academics who want to read their books.) The price for the Kindle edition - $27.99 – was ridiculous.
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