Science Fiction Secrets: From Government Files and the Paranormal

by Nick Redfern

Overview

ALL THE INGREDIENTS FOR A HIGH STRANGENESS STEW

Mix two parts science fiction with one part high-level government secrecy. Add a liberal helping of the paranormal. Then let Nick Redfern heat and serve. The result is far, far stranger than anything that you could ever begin to imagine. SCIENCE FICTION SECRETS presents some mind-bending answers to a number of highly intriguing and thought-provoking questions, including:

-- Did the U.S. Government secretly assist Steven Spielberg in the production of his groundbreaking science fiction movies "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial"?

-- Why were special agents of the FBI so deeply interested in the life, career, and activities of science fiction author Philip K. Dick (of "Blade Runner" fame)?

-- How did "The X-Files" spin-off series "The Lone Gunmen" anticipate months in advance the terrible tragedy of 9-11?

-- Why was the top brass of the U.S. Air Force so secretly interested in, and concerned by, the UFO-related tales of a relatively anonymous 1950s science fiction movie-maker who died in poverty in the early 1980s?

-- Did a nightmarish scenario presented in one of H.G. Wells' novels prompt Soviet Premier Josef Stalin to clandestinely embark upon a secret and diabolical experiment designed to create a super race of monstrous, half-human half-ape soldiers?

-- Has the military managed to successfully perfect human teleportation of the type that was most graphically and famously shown in "Star Trek" and "The Fly"?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933665405
Publisher:	Anomalist Books
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

NICK REDFERN, a transplanted Englishman now based in the Dallas, Texas metropolitan area, is the author of numerous controversial books. Science Fiction Secrets is the third in a series of books by Redfern, following Strange Secrets and Celebrity Secrets, previously published by Paraview Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster.

Editorial Reviews

"I have to start by saying how immensely I enjoyed this book...From strange FBI tales involving the apparent paranoia of Sci-Fi writers like Phillip K. Dick, to weird parallels he draws between the terrorist attacks of 9-11 and television programs that predicted the disaster before it happened, this book is a mind bender in the first degree...The old adage 'truth is stranger than fiction' comes to mind often when reading this gem, and if you ever doubted it, this will be the manuscript that will finally change that perception. Read it, enjoy it, and be prepared to never see the world around you quite the same way you once did." - Micah. A. Hanks, The Gralien Report

"It is...a moot point whether any of the bizarre tales one encounters here and elsewhere are deliberately circulated by governments to baffle foreign intelligence services and to protect real secrets and scandals with a bodyguard of cranks, or as black propaganda...There is no doubt that Nick Redfern gives us an exciting read, but it has to be said that if there is a bodyguard of cranks, he doesn't half help it along... A jolly good read but keep a full salt-cellar handy." - Peter Rogerson, Magonia

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