The movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”(1951) was directed by Robert Wise.
It was based on a story by Harry Bates (“Farewell to the Master”) and starred Michael Rennie as Klaatu/Carpenter.
Web Resources
Credits and other details included in the Internet Movie Database (“imdb”) entry online at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/
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Book References
For discussion of “The Day The Earth Stood Still” see the following:
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Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 122 (in Chapter 7) of the Baker softcover edition. |
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Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62 (in an entry entitled “Day The Earth Stood Still, The (Film)”), 220 (in an entry entitled “Science Fiction”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-70 (in Chapter 7) of the Dragon paperback edition. |
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Baxter, John in his “Science Fiction in the Cinema” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 104-105, 107 (in Chapter 9), 217 (in the “Select Filmography”) of the Zwemmer softcover edition. |
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Beckley, Timothy Green in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 283-284 (in Chapter 17, entitled “Flying Saucers In The Movies”) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 191 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Boyce, Chris in a list entitled “A Checklist of ETs in the Cinema” in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Appendix 1) of the David & Charles hardback edition, at page 152 of the 1980 revised NEL paperback edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 3) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”). |
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Budden, Albert in his “Electric UFOs: Fireballs, Electromagnetics and Abnormal States” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 168 (in Chapter 5) of the Blandford hardback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 523 (in an entry entitled “Science fiction and UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 511 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Bullard, Thomas E in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 628 (in an entry entitled “Science fiction and UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Chambers, Paul in his “Life On Mars” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in Chapter 15) of the Blandford hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25, 26 (in Chapter 2) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition. |
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Conroy, Ed in his “Report on Communion” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 195 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63, 65, 66, 74 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 236-237 (in Chapter 12) of the |
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Curran, Douglas in his “In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Deus Ex Machina”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81 (in the entry entitled “Cold War, linked to UFO reports”), 98 (in the entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”), 372 (in the entry entitled “science fiction involving extraterrestrials, in films and on television”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”. The relevant entry is available online at: “http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/DayEarth.html |
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di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44, 46-47 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sci-Fi, Hokum and Barry Who? - The Golden Age of Science Fiction Movies”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 263 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Haines, Richard in his “CE-5 : Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 326 (in Chapter 7) of the Sourcebooks softcover edition. |
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Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 80 (in Chapter 3) of the Rose Press softcover edition. |
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Harris, Paola in her “How does one speak to a ball of light?” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 89 (in Section 2) of the Author House softcover edition. |
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Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
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Hopkins, Budd in his “Intruders – The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 192 (in Chapter 10) of the Random House hardback edition, at pages 276-277 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Howe, Linda Moulton in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79 (in Chapter 2) of the 2002 Group softcover edition. |
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Hyland, Gary in his “Blue Fires: The Lost Secrets of Nazi Technology” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 (in Chapter 8) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen and Vallee, Jacques in their “The Edge of Reality” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 155 (in Chapter 5) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition. |
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Jackson, Robert in his “UFOs” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Where it all started”) of the Smithmark hardback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The Threat” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in Chapter 1), 104 (in Chapter 6), 216-217 (in Chapter 11) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 135 (in Chapter 9) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Kossy, Donna in her “Kooks” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 221-222 (in Part |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S and Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 151 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 148 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S and Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 181-182 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 650-651 (in an entry entitled “Waves (or Flaps), UFO”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 637 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 781 (in an entry entitled “Waves (or Flaps), UFO”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Kurland, Michael in his “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 290 (in Chapter 28) of the Alpha Books softcover edition, and included a list entitled “Alien Inspired Movies” in Appendix E at pages 315-316. |
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Lawson, Alvin H in “Thesis Antithesis” (1975) (edited by A D Emerson) at page 52 (in Part |
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Le Marbe, Tauna in an article entitled “The Language of Klaatu: Linguistic Analysis”, Fantastic Films Issue Number 1 (1978.0400). Available online at: “http://www.dreamerwww.com/fanfilm/fanfilm2.htm |
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Luckman, Michael in his “Alien Rock : The Rock ‘n’ Roll Extraterrestrial Connection” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41, 42 (in Chapter 1) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Manas, John H in his “Flying Saucers and Space Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-63 (in Chapter 6) of the Zavallis softcover edition. |
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Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 178-182, 186, 188 (in Chapter 6), 217 (in Chapter 8), 284 (in Chapter 11) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31, 45 (in Chapter 3) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in Chapter 7) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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Miller, David and Gatiss, Mark in their “They Came From Outer Space : Alien Encounters in the Movies” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 of the Visual Imagination softcover edition. |
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Moffitt, John in his “Picturing Extraterrestrials : Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 285, 330 of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 4) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Patton, Phil in his “Travels in Dreamland” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157, 158 (in Chapter 11) of the Orion Media hardback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51 of the Smithsonian hardback edition (Chapter 4, “The Myth Defined” – in part of a section entitled “Flying Saucers and Hollywood”), 106 (Chapter 7, “The Contactee Era” – in part of a section entitled “The Contactee Myth” ) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at pages 59-60, 129 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Peters, Ted in his “UFOs-God's Chariots?: Flying Saucers in Politics, Science & Religion” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-35 (in Chapter 2) of the John Knox hardback edition. |
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Pflock, Karl in “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (by James Moseley and Karl Pflock) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the Karl Pflock’s Prologue) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin D and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 82 (in Part 2) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 131 (in Chapter 10) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Abduction“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43-44 (in Chapter 3), 79 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Headline paperback edition). |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in the chapter entitled “1951”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a pages 124, 125 (in Part 4) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 219 (in Part 2, “The UFO Evidence”) of the |
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Reeves, Bryant and Reeves, Helen in their “Flying Saucer Pilgrimmage” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-159 (in Chapter 22) of the Amherst Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Amherst Press softcover edition). |
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Rimmer, John in his “The Evidence for Alien Abductions” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 2) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2 (in an entry entitled “acoustical effects”), 54-55 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”), 111 (in an entry entitled “intervention”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65, 69 (in the Introduction), 177-184 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”) of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Broca’s Brain” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 179 (in Chapter 9) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Shermer, Michael in his “The Borderlands of Science” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 3) of the Oxford University Press hardback edition. |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112, 121 (in Chapter 6) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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Siegel, Richard and Suares, Jean-Claude in their “Alien Creatures” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68, 73 (in Chapter 2), 102, 103, 108-109 (in Chapter 4) of the Reed softcover edition. |
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Simon, Armando in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49, 51 (and included at page |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 239 (in Chapter 14) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34, 36-39 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Perspectives“ (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 178 and 182-183 (in Part 5(c)) of the Futura paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 93 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”), 270, 271 (in an entry entitled “Science Fiction and UFOs”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 105-106, 318 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Strieber, Whitley in his “Breakthrough“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 213 (in Chapter 16) of the Harper Collins hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition) at page 223 of the Harper Spotlight paperback edition. |
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Tompkins, Bolyston in “Alien Creatures” (1978) (by Richard Siegel and Jean-Claude Suares) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12, 18, 19-20, 34, 35 (in the Introduction) of the Reed softcover edition. |
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Tonnies, Mac in his “After the Martian Apocalypse” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 262 (in Chapter 12) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Ware, Donald M in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 196 (in Chapter 6) of the 2002 Group softcover edition. |
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Watson, Nigel and Slade, Darren in their “Supernatural Spielberg” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 3) of the Valis softcover edition. |
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Watson, Nigel in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 333-334 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 5.4, entitled “The Day Flying Saucers Invaded the Cinema”). |
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Watson, Nigel in “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (by Paul Devereux and Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39, 40 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Bates, Harry “Farewell to the Master”, Astounding Stories, 1940.1000. Story available online at: http://www.dreamerwww.com/master/master1.htm
For discussion of “Farewell to the Master” see the following:
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di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sci-Fi, Hokum and Barry Who? - The Golden Age of Science Fiction Movies”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 177, 183 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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