This week I acquired three books on the Mars-Cydonia anomalies, an older but nonetheless still important work by Graham Hancock called The Mars Mystery and a newer release (2008) by Dr. Mark Carlotto, The Cydonia Controvery, and Dr. John Brandenburg's Life and Death on Mars: the New Mars Synthesis. These books are valuable additions to anyone's library who wants the history of the early stages of research and investigation of the Mars anomalies, for in both Dr. Carolotto's and Dr. Brandenburg's case, both men were involved with Richard C. Hoagland in the very earliest days of the Mars … [Read more...]
THE PUZZLE OF “THE PUZZLE OF THE SPACE PYRAMIDS”
Yesterday I finished a couple of big projects - or at least put them into some sort of "rough draft order" - and I decided to goof off and read a book. The book of choice, in this case, was an old science fiction yarn called The Puzzle of the Space Pyramids by Eando Binder, a nom-de-plume for Alfred Binder and his brother Otto, both of whom wrote a series of sci-fi novels. In this case, the book was quite a yarn, and entertaining in its own way. Written first as a series of short stories that were serialized in the late 1930's and early 1940's, the stories were "fixed up" and reprinted as a … [Read more...]