http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/ The latest Books from Fortean Times UK en-GB Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:54:17 +0100 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:54:17 +0100 webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/748/doomsday_men__the_real_dr_strangelove_and_the_dream_of_the_superweapon.html Ah, the innocent days of mutually assured destruction Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:16:17 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/745/wondrous_curiosities__ancient_egypt_at_the_british_museum.html A rewarding slog for the bM’s “studious & curious persons” Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:16:09 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/742/cryptozoology_and_the_investigation_of_lesserknown_mystery_animals.html A good and bad look at the full range of cryptozoology Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:15:55 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/739/chambers_dictionary_of_the_unexplained.html A great one-stop shop for forteans Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:15:50 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/736/psychogeography.html A somewhat partisan overview of this intriguing movement Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:15:43 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/733/strange_company_military_encounters_with_ufos_in_wwii.html A must-read for ufologists of all persuasions Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:15:37 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/687/nightmare_usa_the_untold_story_of_the_exploitation_independents.html A fab trawl through America’s cinematic sewer system Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:00:55 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/661/cabinets_of_curiosities.html The cult of curiosities, strangled by the cold hand of Newtonian rationalism, gets a new lease of life, thanks to this erudite panorama of past worlds in miniature Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:34:58 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/660/top_secret_tourism.html "Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases, and other places in the United States you're not supposed to know about." Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:34:50 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/638/wholly_irresponsible_experiments.html Not quite irresponsible enough for our tastes, but still worth a pop Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:44:25 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/649/the_lost_land_of_lemuria_fabulous_geographies_catastrophic_histories.html A fascinating study of the lost super-continent - a land of lost content and an antidote to modernism, according to its author-which inspired Tamils and Blavatsky Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:59:10 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/637/dark_days_ice_falls_firestorms.html As ever with William Corliss, pure, gleaming fortean gold Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:27:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/636/nonplussed_mathematical_proof_of_implausible_ideas.html Good clean fun for fans of mathematical conundrums Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:27:56 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/635/alchemy_alchemists.html A brief but rather pleasing overview Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:10:54 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/634/the_first_emperor_of_china.html A readable but anodyne account Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:05:31 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/633/knights_templar_encyclopediathe_essential_guide_to_the_people_places_events_symbols_of_the_order_of_the_temple.html A useful corrective to Templar twaddle, but poorly edited Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:54:10 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/632/when_saucers_came_to_earth.html Popular culture influences UFO witnesses in Italy as much it does here, according to newly translated reports Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:54:08 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/630/the_cygnus_mystery.html Despite its over-reliance on unproven ‘cygnet’ particles, the author’s theory about evolution in the Neolithic period intersects with academic astronomy debates Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:28:24 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/605/mimi_and_toutou_go_forth_the_bizarre_battle_of_lake_tanganyika.html Who better to defend the United Kingdom's imperial interests in Central Africa than an incompetent, cross-dressing pen-pusher and his two tiny wooden boats? Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:05:56 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/571/the_dance_of_time_the_origins_of_the_calendar.html A rather fuzzy account that does not take on board non-Western alternatives Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:27:52 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/552/cryptozoology_out_of_time_place_scale.html Gorgeous material... if you can ignore the design tics Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:55:29 +0100