Nobody knows. According to the Denver Post:

There by the trough - past the locked gate a quarter-mile from U.S. 350 east of Hoehne - was the calf. Its front legs and torso were gone. Its back legs were hanging by hide to a shattered pelvis and a meatless backbone. [Rancher Tom] Miller thought a pack of coyotes had torn into the calf the night before.

Then he saw the ears: sliced off the head in circular, surgical-like cuts. He noticed that there were no tracks. And no blood anywhere . . .

Colorado Brand Inspector Dennis Williams [said] "I've heard about it. It was weird, to say the least. Totally unexplainable. To me, it looked like that calf had been dropped from a high distance, the way its hips were dislocated and all its broken bones," Williams says . . .

"It's weird and unexplainable," says [rancher Mike] Duran, who lost a healthy 27-year-old Red Angus cow on March 8, her udder and rear end removed with what he describes as "laser cuts, like when somebody cuts metal with a torch."

Apparently cattle mutilations like these are found on a fairly regular basis in Colorado and parts of Mexico. Is this the creepy, meat-oriented version of crop circles?

via Denver Post (Thanks, Nick Lightner!)

Photo by Chuck Zukowski.

Coleman explains that most bones in forests are, of course, picked clean by predators. So that explains why we don't find dead Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) everywhere, as well as the carcasses of creatures like tigers and moose. Still, that begs the question: Where are the bones? Apparently, porcupines eat bones, as well as hoarding them:

One important behavior of some species of porcupines is that they hoard bones of other animals in or around their dens. Porcupines sometimes are found with bones in their living spaces. For example, the North African crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) and the Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) of sub-Saharan Africa, especially in areas deficient in phosphorous, will practice osteophagia, or gnawing on bones. These porcupines will often accumulate large piles of bones in their dens . . . In North America, studies of situations in which bones accumulate today and in the past often include porcupine caves. For an intriguing article on what Pleistocene mammal remains were found in one such gathering of bones, see "Bears and Man at Porcupine Cave, Western Uinta Mountains, Utah" by Timothy H. Heaton, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, in Current Research in the Pleistocene, vol. 5, pp. 71-73 (1988).

The odds are more highly in favor of Bigfoot bones and bodies never being found . . . But if they are ever found, Bigfoot teeth or old bones possibly might be discovered near or in porcupine habitation sites . . . We won't know unless we look, and reexamine past and future "unidentified" finds from porcupine caves, digs, and dens.

via Cryptomundo

Bigfoot photo by Douglas E. Egolf.

The ship is of the same type people have been seeing since the 1950s, like the one pictured here. According to my favorite UFO blog, Inexplicata, the incident occurred earlier this week:

The entire town – or at least those who were awake at 0200 yesterday – agree that it was hot, an unbearable heat that kept people from getting a good night's sleep, their eyes wide open under treacherous, menacing and stormy skies. Outside, people drank cool drinks or ate ice cream hurriedly, before these were reduced to sticky confections.

This was the fate of many residents of Joaquin V. Gonzalez, engulfed by nearly 300,000 hectares of soybeans, when at 2:00 a.m., with heat still burning under their skins, they saw a strange, gigantic luminous creature, elongated and weightless, heading southeast to El Tunal, some 35 kilometers from the town. It plowed the dark skies, lighting everything around it, visible to everyone.

The "cigar-shaped UFO" (as it is known to specialists) crossed the Saltan night suspended under a spongy ceiling of clouds, and according to some of the numerous witnesses, "with intermittent, flashing lights and a fixed red beacon". As the object disappeared from view, those who watched the sky as though expecting something more, saw it disappear into the darkness toward El Tunal. Minutes later (some say 5, others 15), all of Joaquin V. Gonzalez experienced an electrical blackout that submerged a 200-kilometer area in the deepest darkness possible.

"It was terribly hot. Some people were eating ice cream while others sat around the outdoor tables of local restaurants," said one witness to Salta's El Tribuno. "Suddenly everyone saw a strange vehicle plow across the sky, completely illuminated, and a little bit later, there was a power failure. The phone lines were also rendered inoperative," said the excited witness. "Things went back to normal at 11:30 a.m., nine hours later."

The power failure was confirmed by the EDESA Company, which confirmed the lack of electricity only minutes after the blackout, adding that it was impossible to find the failure, which had occurred at the main power station located at El Tunal. The problem? "A burned-out generator"

UFO expert Luis Burgos told DIARIO POPULAR that "the blackout occurred some fifteen or twenty minutes after the object was sighted over Joaquin V. Gonzalez, and right when it hovered over the generating plant at El Tunal." To Burgos, the protagonist of yesterday's episode was "what we call a mothership, a sort of space aircraft carrier measuring no less than 200-300 meters long, and which usually issues smaller UFOs measuring between 8 and 10 meters in size, which later return to the [mothership]."

via Inexplicata

Jon Ronson, who wrote the book The Men Who Stare at Goats, has taken over the Guardian's film section this week, and asked former Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon, one of the inspirations behind The Men Who Stare at Goats, write a few columns about the film and his ideas. Channon authored the First Earth Battalion manual, which proposed that the US Army modernize warfare by looking toward the human potential movement. Channon suggested engaging the enemy with positive vibrations and offerings of peace, but also suggested that soldiers unlock their potential by practicing meditation and yoga, and that work to develop superhuman abilities such as perceiving auras, teleportation, psychokinesis, and precognition. Ronson discusses Channon's parapsychology in his book, and many of Channon's ideas found their way into the film.

In his columns, Channon says that he doesn't mind that his ideas are being presented as comedy (he calls it "the ultimate roast"), and is just happy that they've enjoyed such a long shelf life. After all, he still believes that the ideas he lays out in the First Earth Battalion are still important in the modern age. Modern warfare, he notes, is still extremely violent and psychologically scarring. He believes that, by opening up their perceptions, soldiers can avoid situations where they might be in physical danger or risk killing another human being. But he also believes that harnessing those paranormal abilities is important in all walks of life:

Another important idea about the paranormal is that it is currently one of the most overlooked skillsets in modern life. We must awaken to the possibility that the most important single advance the human race can make to enter this century where we engage the galaxy and all of its mysteries will require we become adept at moving through dimensions of many kinds. We must tend to our interdimensional world.

While the Army may not have embraced his pacifist parapsychology (though it has employed some of his psychological techniques), Channon has found success in the corporate world. In more recent years, Channon has billed himself as a "strategic shaman," working with companies like AT&T, DuPont, Shell, Whirlpool, and even the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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The Mracek family, living in the house, say they have to extinguish several small fires, up to 60 a day, of plastic bags, pictures as well as sockets though they have been disconnected from electricity supply. Moreover, window panes, electric bulbs and thermometers are cracking in the house and once water in the aquarium started boiling all of a sudden . . . "We are only waiting where it will start burning again. Our son has moved to his grandma, but we must stay here to be able to extinguish fires. It is our house, we built it ourselves and everything was all right for ten years. We cannot let it burn down," Hana Mrackova told the daily.

Apparently paranormal experts have been brought in, as well as a geophysicist and operators from the local Prague telecom and energy companies. But here's the good part. Though the family doesn't want to leave the house they built, the mayor of their town has promised they'll be given another place to live in a few weeks if the haunting continues:

Strašice Mayor Jiri Hahner is concerned about the paranormal phenomena in the house . . . "We do not want to fall for occultism. We will try to explain it in a scientific way. However it is hard as these phenomena are really unexplainable," Hahner [said]. If the situation does not improve within three weeks, the municipality will offer them another housing since it is dangerous to live in the house, he added.

If the weird events continue, he's contemplating having the house torn down.

Hey, I have ghosts in my shower who say they won't leave until the City of San Francisco remodels my bathroom. You hear that, Mayor Gavin Newsom? You think you're better than the mayor of Strašice or something?

via Prague Monitor (via Bonnie!)

Says researcher Marc Micozzi:

Our data show that anomalous perceptions parallel other forms of environmental sensitivity, such as having pronounced or longstanding allergies, migraine headache, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, irritable bowel, even synesthesia (overlapping senses) and heightened sensitivity to light, sound, touch, and smell. Women make up three-quarters of this sensitive population but there are other markers as well: being ambidextrous, for instance, or recalling a traumatic childhood. The more we look at the people who say they're psychic, or who have recurring anomalous experience, the more it seems there's a mix of nature and nurture that predisposes them.

Hmmm, I feel as if I'm being haunted . . . by pseudo-science!

via Science Blog

According to the This Man website, set up to bring together the people who have dreamed about him:

In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Dehli, Moskow etc.

Here are a few more pictures drawn by people who have seen "this man."

And here's a typical "this man" dream:

The first time I had a dream about this man I was having a hard time at work. I had a dream about getting lost in a huge and deserted shopping mall. Suddenly this man appeared and I started running away from him. He chased after me for what seemed like an hour until I found myself against a wall in the kids' area in a supermarket. At this point he smiled at me and he showed me the way out towards the cash desks and I woke up. Ever since that night this man has appeared in all of my dreams and he always gives me directions to get out of the dream and wake up.

Other people dream about "this man" flying with them, comforting them after a tough day, or even taking them out to dinner and having sex with them.

What could be causing this? The site advances several theories, but my favorite is the "dream surfer" theory:

According to this theory this man is a real person, who can enter people's dreams by means of specific psychological skills. Some believe that in real life this man looks like the man in the dreams. Others think that the man in the dreams looks completely different from his real life counterpart. Some people seem to believe that behind this man there is a mental conditioning plan developed by a major corporation.

In fact, it turns out that this theory is the closest to the truth. This website is actually the creation of a sociologist and marketer named Andrea Natella. He runs a company called Guerriglia Marketing which stages "subversive hoaxes" and creates weird art projects that are mostly about pornography, politics, and advertising.

I think ThisMan.org has to be Natella's greatest masterwork. It doesn't smack of artsy pseudo-intellectual "politics" like a lot of his other art does. It's just cheesy and a little bit scary. There really is something uncanny about the pictures of the man and the fake stories from people who claim to have met him. Sweet dreams!

via ThisMan (Thanks, Meredith!)

In the late 19th century, scholars and scientists in Europe and America turned their collective attention not only to the mind, but to the paranormal. In 1882, the term "telepathy" was coined by a founder of the Society for Psychical Research; a boom in occult, proto-SF, and SF romances featuring various kinds of extra-sensory perceptions followed. Since 1892, as near as I can make out, at least one telepathy-related SF novel has been published every single year. (With one exception: 1910.) As with the SF superman, the telepath is an uncanny figure: alluring, impressive, inspiring, but also terrifying. We love and hate them. We want them out of our heads!

Here's a rundown - in no particular order - of 10 of my favorite telepaths from 1904-33 SF. There's a more complete list at the end. Also: Read about Pre-Golden Age SF's coolest robots, super-est supermen, best apocalypses, and most amazing cover art; and also my eccentric SF periodization scheme.

1) ZEE, in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1871). The unnamed narrator finds his way into a too-perfect subterranean civilization peopled by the Vril-ya. Zee, a scholarly young female, takes him under her wing (literally, at times). Having taken refuge from a Deluge millennia earlier, the Vril-ya have evolved into a master race who can focus their wills to use "Vril," a Force-like source of energy, for anything and everything from healing to destroying, from shaping matter to powering machines, and from mesmerization to telepathy.

("Zee asked me if, in my world, it was not known that all the faculties of the mind could be quickened to a degree unknown in the waking state, by trance or vision, in which the thoughts of one brain could be transmitted to another, and knowledge be thus rapidly interchanged.") Though he discovers that the Vril-ya, whose advances have rendered them amoral, are running out of habitable space and plan to (re)claim the surface of the planet, the narrator is released by Zee. Fun facts: Bulwer-Lytton's popular novel influenced J.R.R. Tolkien (the rings of power), Nazi mystics, Hollow Earth theorists, Tesla's research into remote control, and England's "fluid beef" product Bovril (Bovine + Vril).
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2) STELLA, in George Allan England's The Empire in the Air (serialized 1914). Paul Kramer, a daredevil flyer is abducted — or, rather, sublimated — into the fourth dimension while attempting to set a new altitude record over Boston. His fiancee, Stella, is highly mediumistic, so Kramer is able to warn her of an attack by beings from "beyond the universe."

In search of life energy, these globs of solidified light "at absolute zero" plan to disintegrate the Earth. How to stop them? Communicating via Stella, Kramer instructs fellow aviators to fly up to the altitude where he disappeared and join him in the fourth dimension. They do so, and — by focusing their collective will power — are able to fire the atmospheric dust left in the Earth's atmosphere, via the eruption of Krakatoa. This destroys the invading aliens, and Earth is saved. Fun fact: England is the author of three other excellent early SF novels, The Air Trust, Darkness and Dawn, and The Flying Legion.
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3) DR. KINNEY & CO., in Homer Eon Flint's The Devolutionist (novella, serialized 1921). Flint was one the outstanding pre-Amazing Stories pulp SF writers. His "Dr. Kinney" series (The Lord Of Death, The Queen Of Life, The Devolutionist, and "The Emancipatrix") explore theories about, for example, the survival of the fittest and benign dictatorships... on other planets. Having learned how to visit other worlds telepathically, without leaving Earth — i.e., by means of Venusian technology — Kinney and his companions enter the minds and share the sensations of the inhabitants of a human-like civilization on a double planet. One planet (Hafen) is the abode of capitalists; the other (Holl) of workers. Not content merely to study the goings-on, Kinney & co. help the workers' revolutionary party stop the Hafenites from invading the nearby planet Alma, which is inhabited by "'cooperative democrats'; that is, they do not compete with each other for a living, but work together in all things, in complete equality." Then a Hafenite WMD separates the twin planets. Fun facts: Flint reportedly died as a result of an involvement in a bank robbery attempt. In 1965, Ace published The Devolutionist, and The Emancipatrix together, under a single title; best title ever?
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4) ?, in Muriel Jaeger's The Man with Six Senses (1927). Muriel Jaeger's Pre-Golden Age SF novels sound fascinating, and terrific. She was at Oxford with one of my favorite mystery writers, Dorothy L. Sayers, which makes me imagine that her style is equally erudite yet funny. Her first novel, The Question Mark (1926), has been described as a "Libertarian socialist utopia" and a "scientific romance." I also like the sound of Jaeger's SF novels Sisyphyus, or the Limits of Psychology (1929), Hermes Speaks (1933), and Retreat from Armageddon (1936). But they're all deeply out of print, and expensive; so I've never read any of 'em.

Still, I'm including The Man with Six Senses on this Top Ten list because SF scholars call it one of the first attempts at thoughtfully, even painstakingly extrapolating what it might mean to have extra-sensory perceptions... leading to the conclusion that it might be more of a burden than a blessing. Alas, these scholars don't mention the young male protagonist's name, so I can't provide it here. Fun fact: Jaeger's SF novels were published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press.
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5) ORO and YVA, in H. Rider Haggard's When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot (serialized 1918-19). A fantasy novel of the discovery and awakening of two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years. In one of the few SF tales by the author of King Solomon's Mines and She, Humphrey Arbuthnot and companions discover the last two survivors of an Atlantis-like advanced civilization; they have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years. Now awoken, the scientist Oro — who'd been the civilization's priest-king — uses his paranormal mental abilities (clairvoyance, teleportation, mind control) to study WWI-era Europe and its colonies. Dismayed by the miserable and degenerate state of affairs he sees, Oro decides to destroy humankind. His daughter Yva (Eve) sacrifices herself to prevent him from doing so. By no means Haggard's best work, but even his least original material is more thrilling than most.
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6) DROWSY, in J.A. Mitchell's Drowsy (1917). Cyrus Alton, a telepath nicknamed Drowsy because of his drooping eyelids, grows up to attend MIT and become a brilliant scientist. He invents a spaceship equipped with an antigravity mechanism, and flies to the moon, returning with a fantastic diamond... and then, impelled by a psychic bond with a childhood sweetheart, rescues her before she joins a convent.

Of greater interest, though, is Mitchell's account of Drowsy's childhood. Is he the first of a new species: homo superior? Like the title character of Beresford's Hampdenshire Wonder, the boy's evolved worldview offends his narrow-minded elders. Especially when, for example, he cuts his favorite illustrations out of a Bible; or insists on the morality of untruths; or demands to know why "teacher doesn't tell us things worth knowing." Like Daniel Clowes's Enid Coleslaw, that is to say, Drowsy is a cranky middle-aged freethinker in a child's body. Fun facts: The author, a Harvard dropout and idler, founded the original LIFE Magazine, later purchased by Henry Luce, in 1883. Also: With Horace Greeley, Mitchell founded the Fresh Air Fund.

7) TIZOC, in Herbert Clock and Eric Boetzel's Light in the Sky (1929). An unnamed narrator is kidnapped, and wakes up in an Aztlan, an underground civilization where the Aztecs — he discovers — have been living ever since they fled from Cortez in the time of Montezuma's defeat. In the intervening centuries, they've invented airships, solar power, sleep rays, and rejuvenation/immortality, not to mention an atomic-energy-style weapon called the Eighth Color. Aztlan's leader is Tizoc, Montezuma's brother, a telepath who has mastered the electromagnetic spectrum.

Discovering that he's a descendant of Cortez whose ritual sacrifice will mark the re-emergence of the Aztecs into the surface world, which they plan to conquer, the narrator plans to escape. (Up to this point, the novel closely rips off The Coming Race.) Tizoc reads his mind and reveals something that even his own son doesn't know: Instead of conquering the surface world, he plans to benefit it with Aztec science. Then Tizoc is killed by his son, and Aztlan is destroyed. Fun fact: Everett F. Bleiler says of this novel that "One has the impression that the authors sought to write the wildest possible story."
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8) REZ, in Paul Ernst's The Black Monarch (serialized Feb.-June 1930). Yet another Coming Race-style yarn. In 1992, Dr. Sanderson, foster-son of an inventor who's created a machine that can respond to thought waves, detects the presence of an immensely evil being in Algeria. He and an adventurer, Neil Emory, discover a subterranean civilization beneath that country; it is ruled by Rez, an immortal ancient Egyptian whose brain is so enlarged that he's replaced his own skull with a metal contraption. Rez has highly developed paranormal powers — he converses telepathically, and, with the aid of a huge diamond crystal, controls the wills of his small, robot-like subjects. From his underground lair he's manipulating the world into a war that will smash civilization as we know it. Despite being overpowered and tortured by Rez, Sanderson and Emory must find a way to defeat him. Fun facts: From 1939-42, under the name Kenneth Robeson, Ernst would write the original 24 Avenger stories for the magazine of that title. Pulp expert Don Hutchison has called Ernst "a prolific manufacturer of potboilers-made-to-order."

9) HARRY MAXWELL, in Lilith Lorraine's The Brain of the Planet (1929). In 1935 Harry Maxwell, a radical and brilliant young scientist, becomes convinced that telepathy is merely a technical question, a matter of positive (sending) and negative (receiving) minds. He and some friends build a wireless transmission station in Mexico... but instead of broadcasting radio waves, they broadcast thought waves that derive their energy from the collective unconscious. Their message? Altruism. Left- and right-wing fanatics everywhere drop dead upon impact; everyone else responds positively. Before you know it, a united world state governs a populace in which everyone is socially, economically, and sexually fulfilled. Fun fact: Lorraine, whose real name was Mary M. Wright, was a poet, Texas crime reporter, and early feminist utopian; she ended up with an FBI file because of her socialist views. She chose the pen name Lilith in honor of a fellow "troublemaker," i.e., the Biblical Adam's first wife.

10) THE SNAKE MOTHER, in A. Merritt's The Face in the Abyss (1931). This semi-occult SF novel, which combines "The Face in the Abyss" (serialized Sept. 1923) and its sequel, "The Snake Mother" (serialized Oct.-Dec. 1930), is set in the Peruvian Andes. Treasure-hunter Nicholas Graydon rescues Suarra, handmaiden to Adana, the Snake Mother of Yu-Atlanchi, from his own companions. Adana is the last of a race of superintelligent serpent people whose servants, the Old Race, are immortal. Although possessed of fragments of their former superior science, they are now obsessed with sex, hunting mutants with dinosaurs, and dream machines. Adana, who possesses spectacular paranormal abilities, is humankind's only defense against Nimir, a Sauron- or Voldemort-like mage who'd conquer the world if he could inhabit a physical body. He wants Graydon's, but a band of Old Race outlaws and mutated spiders thwart him. Fun facts: Merritt was once considered the greatest SF writer of modern times; he had a magazine - A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine - named after him. E.F. Bleiler praises his "sweeping ideas, high emotion, and perpetual suggestions of deeper phenomena beneath the surface of events."
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Joshua Glenn is a Boston-based writer and independent scholar. His most recent book is The Idler's Glossary. Read his previous posts about Pre-Golden Age science fiction here.

ALSO OF INTEREST

NINETEENTH CENTURY (1804-1903)

* Edward Bellamy, "To Whom This May Come" (serialized Feb. 1888)
* Francis W. Doughty, Mirrikhor, A Woman from Mars: A Tale of Occult Adventure (1892)
* William Harben, "In the Year Ten Thousand" (serialized Nov. 1892)
* W.S. Lach-Szyrma, Under Other Conditions: A Tale (1892)
* Byron A. Brooks, Earth Revisited (1893)
* William Livingston Alden, "A Modern Vampire" (serialized March 1894)
* George Du Maurier, Trilby (1894: fantasy - first appearance of Svengali)
* John Strange Winter, A Seventh Child (1894: occult)
* Gustavus W. Pope, Romances of the Planets, No. 1. Journey to Mars (1894)
* Theron Clark Crawford, "The Disappearance Syndicate" (1894)
* Tremlett Carter, The People of the Moon (1895)
* A. Garland Mears, Mercia, The Astronomer Royal (1895)
* M. Auberre Hovorre, The Milltillionaire (c. 1895)
* Robert Cromie, The Crack of Doom (1895)
* Arthur Conan Doyle, The Parasite (1895: fantasy)
* James Buckham, "A Telepathic Wooing" (1896)
* Thomas F. Anderson, "A Mental Mischance" (serialized Sept. 1896)
* George Du Maurier, The Martian (1897)
* Weatherby Chesney, "The Witch" (1898)
* Henry Athey, With Gyves of Gold: A Novel (1898)
* Charles L. McKesson, Under Pike's Peak: Or, Mahatma, Child of the Fire Father (1898)
* Anne Adolph, Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels of the North Pole (1899)
* Henry S. Drayton, In Oudemon: Reminiscences of an Unknown People by an Occasional Traveler (1900)
* Charles Cole, Visitors from Mars (1901)
* Harry E. Rice, Eve and the Evangelist: A Romance of A.D. 2108 (1901)
* Barry Pain, The Great White Way (1901)
* Eden Philpotts, "A Story Without an End" (serialized 1901)
* J. George Frederick, "The Dupe of a Realist" (serialized March 1902)
* Charles Godfrey Leland, Flaxius: Leaves from the Life of an Immortal (1902)
* Mabel Ernestine Abbott, "Those Fatal Filaments" (1903)

THE NINETEEN-OUGHTS (1904-13)

* W.G. Worfel (as The Baron), Munchausen XX (1904)
* Gabriel de Tarde, Underground Man (1905, in translation)
* Rev. William Shuler Harris, Life in a Thousand Worlds (1905)
* John F. Armour, Edenindia: A Tale of Adventure (1905)
* Edwin Lester Arnold, Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905)
* Don Mark Lemon, "The Essence of Advertising" (serialized August 1906)
* Louis Tracy, Karl Grier: The Strange Story of a Man with a Sixth Sense (1906: occult)
* John Mastin, The Immortal Light (1907)
* Edgar Earl Christopher, The Invisibles (1908)
* Frank Hatfield, The Realm of Light (1908)
* John Mastin, Through the Sun in an Airship (1909)
* James Rock, Thro' Space (1909)
* Herman K. Viele, On the Lightship (1909)
* Garrett P. Serviss, A Columbus of Space (serialized 1909, as novel 1911)
* Ronald Legge, The Hawk: A Story of Aerial War (1909)
* J.D. Beresford, The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911)
* Gustave Frederick Mertins, A Watcher of the Skies (1911)
* William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land (1912)
* Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (serialized 1912; as novel 1917)
* Morgan Robertson, "Absolute Zero" (serialized, 1913)

THE TEENS (1914-23)

* George Allan England, The Empire in the Air (1914)
* Herbert Gubbins, The Elixir of Life, or 2905 AD (1914)
* Stephen McKenna, The Sixth Sense (1915)
* Garrett P. Serviss, The Moon Maiden (1915)
* Hugo Gernsback, "Martian Amusements" (serialized June 1916)
* J.A. Mitchell, Drowsy (1917)
* Clifford Smyth, The Gilded Man: A Romance of the Andes (1918)
* H. Rider Haggard, When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot (1919)
* Leslie Burton Blades, "Fruits of the Forbidden Tree" (serialized Nov. 1919)
* Homer Eon Flint, The Queen of Life (novella, 1919)
* Denby Brixton, The Unknown Revolution (1919: novella)
* T.S. Stribling, The Green Splotches (novella, 1920)
* Homer Eon Flint, The Devolutionist (novella, 1921)
* J.D. Beresford, "Young Strickland's Career" (1921)
* Norbert Jacques, Dr Mabuse, der Spieler (1922: horror)
* Gilbert Collins, The Valley of Eyes Unseen (1923)
* H.G. Wells, Men Like Gods (1923)
* Ganpat (Martin Louis Gompertz), Harilek: A Tale of Modern Central Asia (1923)
* Ivan Narodny, The Skygirl - A Mimodrama - In Three Acts on a Star (performed 1923, as novel 1925)

THE TWENTIES (1924-33)

* Norman Elwood Hammerstrom & R.F. Searight, "The Brain in the Jar" (1924)
* Rena Oldfield Pettersen, Venus (1924)
* Leslie Beresford, The Venus Girl (1925)
* Lady Anne Bonny, Wings of Power (novella, 1925)
* S. Fowler Wright, The Amphibians (1925)
* J.C. Smith, Thus Far (1925)
* Elwood F. Pierce, "The Dream of Death" (serialized July 1925)
* Robert Spencer Carr, "The Composite Brain" (serialized March 1925)
* T.S. Stribling, Christ in Chicago (1926)
* Julian Huxley, The Tissue-Culture King (1926)
* J.P. Marshall, The World in the Balance (1927)
* Arthur Conan Doyle, The Maracot Deep (serialized 1927-28, as novella 1929)
* Muriel Jaeger, The Man with Six Senses (1927)
* Alfred Ollivant, To-Morrow: A Romance of the Future (1927)
* Wilford Allen, "The Arctic Death" (serialized June 1927)
* Maurice Lincoln, Nothing Ever Happens (1927)
* Ray Cummings, Beyond the Stars (serialized 1928; as novel 1963)
* Bertram Russell, The Bat-Men of Thorium (novella, 1928)
* Herbert Clock and Eric Boetzel, The Light in the Sky (1929)
* Otis Adelbert Kline, The Planet of Peril (1929)
* Roy Rockwood, By Air Express to Venus (1929)
* George B. Tuttle, The Roc Raid (1929)
* Hand P. Dreyer, The Secret of the Sphinx (1929)
* Ray Cummings, The Sea Girl (serialized 1929; as novel 1930)
* Paul Ernst, The Black Monarch (1930)
* Otis Adelbert Kline, The Prince of Peril (1930)
* S. Fowler Wright, "P.N. 40" (1930)
* Edmond Hamilton, "The Man Who Saw the Future" (1930)
* Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (1930)
* Talbot Mundy, Jimgrim (serialized 1930-31)
* A. Merritt, The Face in the Abyss (1931)
* Charles Fort, Wild Talents (1932: nonfiction)
* Olaf Stapledon, Last Men in London (1932)
* Pansy E. Black, The Man from the Meteor (1932)
* Edmond Hamilton, "The Man with X-Ray Eyes" (1933)

EARLY GOLDEN AGE/LATE PGA

* J.B. Rhine. Extra-Sensory Perception (1934, nonfiction influenced Campbell)
* André Maurois, The Thought-Reading Machine (1937; 1938 in English)
* Please suggest others from the years 1934-40!

Here's the synopsis:

Eleven-year-old Maia can see the future, and she’s never wrong. So when she has a vision of Mount Rainier starting to erupt, the National Threat Assessment Command takes her warning very seriously. But to track down the unknown returnee who may trigger the volcanic eruption, NTAC agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris must uncover the astounding truth behind one of the greatest unsolved crimes of the twentieth century….

And they’ve got competition. Ruthless enemies are working against them and somehow managing to keep one step ahead of the desperate agents. With the future closing in on them, Tom and Diana must foil a lethal conspiracy — before Seattle and the entire Pacific Northwest go the way of ancient Pompeii.

The book's available now on Amazon.com and in bookstores. [Slice Of Scifi]

Fringe focuses on the brilliant-but-maybe-crazy scientist Walter Bishop (Noble), his estranged son... and the female agent who brings the two of them together. When the show starts, the elder Bishop is in an institution. Every week, the show focuses on another self-contained paranormal mystery, plus the relationships among the characters. Also, Lance Reddick (The Wire) will co-star as Phillip Broyles, special agent for Homeland Security. Broyles heads up the special Fringe division, set up to investigate a series of terrorist/paranormal events. Alex Graves (Journeyman) will direct the pilot.

Of course, J.J. is in the can-do-no-wrong zone right now, so maybe this show will subvert X-Files the way Cloverfield subverted Godzilla. You never know, right? [Production Charts]