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Subject: Re: Joe Haldeman's The Coming
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:29:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:29:13 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:19:14 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
> Dorsey) wrote:
> 
>>This takes place in a corrupt near-future Florida after astronomers have
>>received a message from space.  Saying anything else is going to spoil
>>some part of the plot.  After all these years I suspect this is probably
>>my favorite alien first contact novel of all time.
>>
>>This came out in 2000 and have just not got around to it.  No wonder I
>>never get to nominate anything for Hugos.
> 
> One of the many books from my grandfather's estate on Revelation asserts
> that Space Aliens and Flying Saucers were and will be involved.
> 
> When I say that wing-nuts exist everywhere, I mean /everywhere/.

In the 1950s both Billy Graham and Carl Jung weighed in on the
significance of UFOs.