Flying Saucers Are Real!
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Flying Saucers Are Real! is a catalogue of the Jack Womack UFO library and a history of one of the 20th century’s most pervasive subcultures. The collection presents an unknown wealth of images taken from mid-century flying saucer books and extensive text by author-collector Womack outlining the history of the UFO phenomenon and opining on the selections. With an introduction by science fiction author William Gibson.
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.