دانلود کتاب Charles Fort : Prophet of the Unexplained

Charles Fort devoted his life to attacking one of the modern world’s most sacred cows: traditional science, with all its authority and all its presuppositions. His method was simple: he collected and published reliable accounts of events that science cannot explain — colored rains, living things falling to earth, unknown objects in space and in the oceans, people who have mysteriously appeared and disappeared, and a whole catalogue of other curiosities. His boldness, imagination and conviction earned him the admiration of many of his most famous contemporaries, including Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Alexander Woollcott, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. And today, even scientists are beginning to explore the implications of Fortean material.
This book is the first full-scale biography of Charles Fort, a lively, sympathetic, and thought-provoking portrait of a strange and brilliant man.
Author of countless science fiction stories, novels, and critical essays, Damon Knight is one of the most perceptive and astringent of science fiction writers. He has won the Hugo Award for his science fiction criticism, served as president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and edited the annual Orbit collection of original science fiction stories. In preparing this book, he read every scrap of Charles Fort’s writing he could find, including a large number of unpublished journals, notebooks, letters, novels, and essays, as well as more recent accounts of and commentaries on Fortean phenomena.