tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post8029758802580784310..comments2024-03-18T22:13:59.679+00:00Comments on Retro-Forteana: UFOs: the forgotten bookAndrew Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-38450700623683641962011-06-30T15:56:50.491+01:002011-06-30T15:56:50.491+01:00Quite right! There was a bit of a discussion along...Quite right! There was a bit of a discussion along these lines on Facebook yesterday when I posted this via Networked Blogs - the first comment coming from Andy Roberts, who was David Clarke's co-author on <i>Flying Saucerers</i>. You're absolutely right that I should have done more research before launching into the post... my defence being that it was a spur of the moment thing prompted by something I heard the previous evening.<br /><br />A couple of the things you mention came up - LSD and <i>A Taste for Honey</i>. The latter is interesting because it too features bees -- not as visitors from Mars but as a murder weapon in a detective story (used twice, by two different people, if I understand correctly). Julian Symons, in <i>Bloody Murder</i>, describes the novel as "long-windedly philosophical", which suggests that I may not have been too far wide of the mark when I said that Heard was a bit of a moralist!Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-61073312184799037812011-06-30T12:56:50.024+01:002011-06-30T12:56:50.024+01:00Wait a minute...Gerald Heard? I know that name. ...Wait a minute...Gerald Heard? I know that name. Isherwood, right? Or mysteries? (Google fu!) Yes, thought so, he was Isherwood's intro to Vedanta, the guy with the pointy goatee. Oh, and he also wrote mysteries; he was H.F. Heard. And, whoa, that's weird - he gave the AA founder LSD...And, hey, his story "A Taste for Honey" inspired the B movie "The Deadly Bees!" You should look into this guy more. He has layers.<br />http://www.geraldheard.com/ However, "The Riddle of the Flying Saucers" is not in his Wikipedia article.Peni R. Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01781761011389542245noreply@blogger.com