Serpent in the Sky, by John Anthony West, is a truly important book and a very readable one. When I first encountered it more than ten years ago, I was impre ssed by the depth and breadth of both the scholarship and the thinking, as well as by the clear and vivid writing. Now, as I have had occasion to read this exciting narrative again, I am still impressed by those virtues, and I find the boo...

If you're into catastrophe scenarios, David Booth has a corker for you. It just may be that all that Planet-X stuff last year wasn't total baloney. David has the credentials, and his story is the key to a lot of puzzles. It makes a complete, awful picture out of a bunch of seemingly unrelated data. Like predictions by Nostradamus 500 years ago of a pole change which would wipe out 97% of humani...