Flying Saucers Are Real!

Jack Womack is the author of Ambient, Terraplane, Heathern, Elvissey, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Let’s Put the Future Behind Us, and Going, Going, Gone. Womacks’s short stories have appeared in anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kusher, and Delia Sherman. His short fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in Omni, Spin, Fantasy and Science Fiction, the Washington Post Book World, Artbyte, Suddeutsche Zeitung. He has written short pieces for and appeared on BBC 1, BBC 2, and Radio Bavaria. Womack won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1994 and has taught writing at the Clarion West workshop in Seattle.

21st century William Gibson on 20th century phenomena. 19

How this collection came to be; why anyone should care. 21

Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Dero. 29

Saucer slag, dead dogs, the first Man in Black. 39

Making sense of the saucers. Or, not. 87

Telepathic warnings, blonde Venusians, odd trousers, and Moon potatoes. 141

Skeptics take the field, few notice. 151

UFOs in the Aquarian Age, and after. 157

The original Man in Black and others. 183

An infinity of oddity. 239

The mind in action is a marvelous thing. 239