Thanks for reporting this, Doc Sarvis.

I have several shelves dedicated to my Erich von Daniken and Immanuel Velikovsky collection. Post-WWII 1950 was probably the beginning of the age of "pseudo-science."

An extraterrestrial traveler who visited South America a thousand years ago is depicted by the natives wearing an oxygen helmet in this stone relief.

Frank Edwards. Wow. Good stuff.

Have you read The Day After Roswell by Philip Corso? He was a serious US Army Counterintelligence Officer (LTC) during the Second World War and he extricated 10,000 Jewish refugees from Rome to Palestine. His book about the USG exploiting UFO technology is pretty interesting to say the least.

As you know, since you lived through it ahead of me, many of those ideas from the writers of Sci-Fi pulp and comic books became realities.

Charles Moulton (Wonder Woman creator) wrote about the "Purple Healing Ray" and her "Golden Lasso" which made one tell the truth. Today we use infrared and ultraviolet light therapy for a host of skin infections and the polygraph machine was invented by Moulton.

Did you own of these when you grew up with movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Red Planet Mars?

Hi Zed

But Erich von Daniken was entertaining.

Decades ago I read the book and saw "Chariots of the Gods."

Soon after the US release of the film, a TV show called "In Search of...." aired to capitalize on the success of the movie.

Hosted by Leonard Nimoy, he used his rich voice to narrate each episode which explored UFOs, yetis, spontaneous combustion, etc.

If I had time, I would re-watch the "In Search of...." TV series I posted, but that would mean less reading.

You may enjoy reading Immanuel Velikovsky's books.

I'll try to remember the link issue for future posts.

Besides Shakespeare (and his contemporaries), Agatha Christie, Damon Runyan, and PG Wodehouse for fiction and literary pleasures; all re-readable, depending on your whims and fancies.

Michael Crichton wrote some avant-garde works, but I have yet to re-read any of his novels. Perhaps I'll re-visit The Terminal Man (1972) in a few months.

Some of Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason mysteries are worth re-reading for the courtroom dialectics.

My wife gave me Stephen King's Pet Sematary for our anniversary because the author himself said he couldn't read it for one full year out of fright; and he wrote the novel himself. I'll be getting to that soon.

Here is the 1950 Romulus of pseudo-science that I mentioned.

Rednecks think the universe is held together by duct tape.

Hi RedLightRobot:

I was remiss in my hasty reply to you. This goes without saying, but any book by John Steinbeck or Ernest Hemingway are worth re-reading.

The plays and works of Bernard Shaw and Graham Greene are also fine re-reads.

For entertaining spy stories, I suggest Somerset Maugham and his "Ashenden" canon.

Two books which never leave my home and to which I refer to regularly: