Chris Olson wrote: >... >It *is* a good book; well written and it keeps the interest going 'till >the end. It's also period (1920s Philadelphia) and touches on a great >many issues besides "is this psychic stuff real". > > However I'm sufficiently a skeptic that that alone is a turn-off. I like the book _Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats_, by Gene DeWeese and Robert Coulson, where aliens land on in Australia during the World Science Fiction convention. The punch line in that book is: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Science Fiction fans are more skeptical than the general population, and we don't believe in them - in fact we disbelieve them right out of existence!