Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 - May 3, 1932) was a writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. (According to some sources he was born on August 9.)

Books about Fort

There are very few books written about Fort. His life and work has been almost completely overlooked by mainstream academia and the books written are mainly biographical expositions relating Fort's life and ideas.

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• Gardner, Martin has a chapter on Charles Fort in his Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science 1957; Dover; ISBN 0486203948.
• Knight, Damon, is a dated but valuable biographical resource, detailing Fort's early life, his pre-'Fortean' period and also provides chapters on the Fortean society and brief studies of Fort's work in relation to Immanuel Velikovsky.
• Magin, Ulrich, Der Ritt auf dem Kometen. Über Charles Fort is similar to Knight's book, in German language, and contains more detailed chapters on Fort's philosophy.

There has been more recent interest in Fort:

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• Bennett, Colin, ', Head Press, 2002, hardback, 176 pages, ISBN 1900486202.
• Kaplan, Louis, The Damned Universe of Charles Fort, Semiotexte, 1995, 156 pages, ISBN 0936756527.

Although an unlkely superhero Fort has starred in two Comics:

Related Topics:
Superhero - Comics

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• Necronauts (in 2000 AD # 2000, # 1223-1230, 2001 by writer Gordon Rennie and artist Frazer Irving)
• Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (a 2002 4 part mini-series for Dark Horse Comics by writer Peter Lenkov and artist Frazer Irving