[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
Flying Saucers! Everybody loves them.
And they're part of the secret history of science fiction as well. Google Ray Palmer, the one who edited Amazing Stories in the 1940s. Or, say the following two words to anyone of a certain age, in the field: "Shaver Mystery."
Luckily, UFOlogists were equally concerned about strengthening the traditional firewall between science, and imagination.
As time passed a certain overlap redeveloped, to the benefit of neither science fictio
Published on March 20, 2009 10:33