Welcome To Mars: Science And The American Century, 1947 1959

Welcome To Mars: Science And The American Century, 1947 1959

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Tim Pendry
Ken Hollings is part of a crew of imaginative writers in London who are interested in the byways of popular culture and consciousness and are perhaps best represented by the Strange Attractor Journal (now into Issue Four) and by the broadcasts on Resonance FM.

Mark Pilkington, who runs Strange Attractor Press, covers some of the territory of this book in ‘Mirage Men’ (2010) but the two works are complementary rather than competitive.

Pilkington’s primary concern is in the disinformation and paran...more
Rik Eberhardt
Welcome to Mars is America seen through the gravitational lens of the flight of flying saucers. With senses enhanced by the LSD dropped in your coffee by the CIA. In the comfort of the couch in your new home in Suburbia - heaven on Earth right here in Levittown, PA.

The Sixties(TM) couldn't have happened without the unifying paranoia that surrounded daily American life in the years after the Atom Bomb. Ken Hollings captures this by sifting through an immense bibliography of top-secret US Air Forc...more
Nfpendleton
A perfect companion to the radio series, an amazing schematic of the dark soul of the American Atomic Age. Paraphrasing Spaulding Grey: Leave it to the British to teach Americans their own history. Hollings shows us how to see our pop culture again for the first time, connecting dots like the maddest of conspiracy theorists. Totally immersive and unsettling.
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