Brief review to be added of Arthur C Clarke's book “Childhood’s End” (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
Web Resources
There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...
The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.
Book References
The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.
Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.
For discussion of “Childhood’s End” see the following:
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Aldiss, Brian in his “Billion Year Spree” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 260-261 (in Chapter 10) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition. |
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Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 130-131 (in Chapter 7) of the Baker softcover edition. |
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Baird, John C in his “The Inner Limits of Outer Space” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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Barlowe, Wayne Douglas and Summer, Ian and Meacham, Beth in their “Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-71 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Childhood’s End”) of the Workman softcover edition. |
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Benjamin, |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “A Modern Look at Monsters” (1970) at page 237 (in Chapter 8) of the Tower paperback edition. |
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Cohen, Jack and Stewart, Ian in their “Evolving the Alien” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59, 60 (in Chapter 3), 185 (in Chapter 8), 204 (in Chapter 9) of the Ebury Press hardback edition. |
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Conroy, Ed in his “Report on Communion” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 330 (in Chapter 9) of the |
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Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 238-239 (in Chapter 12) of the |
2 |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 255-256 (in Chapter 5) of the |
2 |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “The Andreasson Affair: Phase Two” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 194 (in Chapter 14) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Guthke, Karl S in his “The Last Frontier : Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction: Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16 (in Chapter 1.2), 28-29 (in Chapter 1.3), 385, 390 (in Chapter 5.4) of the Cornell University softcover edition. |
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Halpern, Paul in his “The Quest For Alien Planets” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xvi-xvii (in the Preface) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 220-221 (in Chapter 16) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “The Cosmic Question” (1975) (formerly “The Eighth Tower”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 219 (in Chapter 25) of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 353 (in an entry entitled “Mind Control By Aliens”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 344-345 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 427 (in an entry entitled “Mind Control By Aliens”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 2) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 464 (in Chapter 9) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Tansley, David in his “Omens of Awareness” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 279 (in Chapter 14) of the Abacus paperback edition. |
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Other Material
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