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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
January 15, 2002 |
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LOOKING FOR ORTHON:
The Story of George Adamski,
the First Flying Saucer Contactee
and How He Changed the World
by Colin Bennett |
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Few phenomena have so captured the popular imagination as
those events associated with outer space and space
exploration. Interest in UFO’s, in particular, has long
outlasted other fads and fashions. No book better illuminates
how UFO lore originated than LOOKING FOR ORTHON by Colin
Bennett.
In a daring thesis, Bennett suggests that the defining moment
of the twentieth century may well prove to be 12:30 pm on
Thursday, November 20, 1952 when George Adamski met Orthon, a
long-haired youth from Venus This encounter happened in the
California desert in the presence of witnesses. From that
moment the cat was out of the bag, the space people were among
us, and nothing has ever been the same since. Adamski’s 1953
bestseller, Flying Saucers Have Landed, further ensured that
images of the UFO and the space alien would haunt us.
As Bennett points out, the effects of this on popular culture
can be seen everywhere. In the modern imagination the UFO is a
constant, not just a spacecraft, but a reminder that the world
is not as rational as our educators claim. |
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“Adamski is therefore a battlement ghost from the immediate
post-war world, appearing at the stroke of midnight to remind
us of the disturbingly yet exciting possibility that what we
call “reality” may be far more scandalous an affair than
previously thought. This is both the awe and fear at the heart
of the UFO experience.”
-Colin Bennett
“[Adamski] was an impressive old rogue, like Madame Blavatsky
and in the same tradition. Such people, according to Plato are
the kind whom the gods choose to
enlighten us.”
-John Michell, author, The New View Over Atlantis and
Who Wrote Shakespeare? |
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About Colin Bennett |
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COLIN BENNETT was born in Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest, within
arrow-shot of the Sheriff of Nottingham’s castle. He left
school after studying mathematics and science, became a
professional musician, then a mercenary soldier for a time,
before reading English at Balliol College, University of
Oxford. He had several plays performed on the professional
stage in London, including the Royal Court Theatre, before
retraining as an electronics engineer to cure what he calls a
bad dose of left-liberal decadence. He then ran his own
electronics consultancy and printing firm. He has had two
novels published, The Infantryman’s Fear of Open Country,
and The Entertainment Bomb, and he lives within
spear-throwing distance of Portobello Road. |
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Looking for Orthon
by Colin Bennett
Paraview Press Trade Paper Original
Pub. Date: October 15, 2001
ISBN: 1-931044-32-5 UFOs.
DOI:
5 ˝ x 81/4, 224 pages, $15.95
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This book is available through
amazon.com,
barnesandnoble.com, and can be ordered through local and
online bookstores nationwide. |
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About Paraview Press |
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Paraview Publishing is a publisher that utilizes new media
technology to publish quality works in body, mind, and spirit
and the frontiers of science and culture -- areas related to
the transformation of society. Our imprints include Paraview
Press, print-on-demand books for niche audiences; Paraview
Special Editions, reprints of select out-of-print books and
international books; and Paraview Pocket Books, traditionally
published works for a wide audience. Based in New York City,
Paraview targets a global audience, including over 50 million
Americans who are interested in health lifestyles, personal
development and the transformation of society. |
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For author interviews and review copies
contact: (212) 989-3616
E-mail: publisher@paraview.com |
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