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Author:   Gabriel Mckee
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780262049542

ISBN 10:   0262049546
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   22 April 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Unidentified 1 “Heckling the Performer in Derision”: Gray Barker before Flying Saucers 2 Flying Saucers before Gray Barker 3 “The Skies Seethe with Mystery”: The Saucerian 4 “Tomorrow we shall again have our head in the stars”: 1954–1955 5 Knowing Too Much: 1956–1957 6 Chasing the Flying Saucers: 1957–1959 7 “A Very Profitable Wave”: The Beginning of Saucerian Books 8 “A Fairly Good Hack Writing Style”: Decline and Resurrection, 1962–1965 9 The Saucer Boom: The Paranormal As Business, 1966–1968 10 “What Else Have You Got Besides Flying Saucers?” Saucerian Books After Condon, 1969–1970 11 “Thoroughly Dedicated to Promoting UFO Crackpottery”: Barker in the 1970s 12 “Deep Peace and Drowsiness”: New Age Books and Barker’s Final Years, 1982–1984 Conclusion: Strange Things Notes Bibliography Index

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Gabriel Mckee is Librarian for Collections and Services at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is a coeditor of Theology and the DC Universe, and his prior works include The Gospel According to Science Fiction, Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, and Evermore- The Persistence of Poe.

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