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"Mark Pilkington's column ""Far Out"" appeared weekly in Life, ""The Guardian's"" science supplement, for about two years. It charted some of the more curious byways, scenic detours and inspired failures of scientists, inventors and, yes, crackpots, over the past few hundred years. Here is a collection of those columns, revised and expanded. Written in a succinct readable style, each piece provides a useful, self-contained introduction to its topic, and contains enough information to allow readers to discover more if they so desire. Covering physics, chemistry, biology, archaeology, parapsychology, psychology and other areas yet to be named, ""Far Out"" tells the stories that are all too often ignored, lost or simply forgotten by conventional science books."

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Mark Pilkington is a freelance journalist, writer and editor. As well as writing the Far Out column for the Guardian (UK) he is a contributing editor to Fortean Times. He has also written for, amongst others, the Times, The Wire, and Arthur. He is also the editor of the highly-praised anthology of cultural marginalia, Strange Attractor Journal.

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