Nick Redfern's new book: The Martians

Nick Redfern’s The Martians: Evidence of Life on the Red Planet [Red Wheel/Weiser, Career Press-New Page Books, Paperback, $19.95, Kindle $18.95] is being noted by many in the UFO community, and just received by me, a super fan of Nick. 

Why am I a superfan? Nick writes as a journalist and my background and current status as a news media critic appreciates all of his work. He provides all the information and acumen of the best journalistic writers, something he does again in this latest endeavor, The Martians.

I was particularly thrilled to get my hands on Nick’s book and dive into it right off the bat.

As usual, it is replete with facts and information that even the most dyed in the wool Mars enthusiast hasn’t known or heard before.

References to various ephemera that pertain to Mars offer support for the implied theme of Nick’s book: that, in the past, an “ailing” race came to Earth from Mars.

Nick provides scads of material that envelops his Martians theme but also enlightens readers about related items from science, mythological, religious, and ufological sources; a journalistic habit that is rare nowadays, but found in spades in all his books, and especially this new one.

Thrusting facts and even obtuse information in the Martians mix gives his theme heft.

This works well when he incorporates the ideas of Mac Tonnies, who enjoined cryptoterrestrials with the UFO mythos . Tonnies who suddenly died several years ago at a rather young age coined the word and idea of a race, extant on Earth that became, early on, as prototypes for the gods of ancient texts and myth: visiting or settling Martians, perhaps.

One can't do justice to Nick’s books. They are of a kind, full of material and information that overwhelms as it solidifies Nick’s thinking.

He never presses readers to accept his view, letting the material he collects do that, which is exactly what he’s done with this new book.

(I did a pathetic blog post a week or so ago, one that lines up with Nick’s ideas in The Martians. His book offers sustenance for my blog post, while suggesting I am no writer as Nick is. But, at least, I’m now able to footnote my pussy cat ideas by resorting to Nick’s full-out facts and sources, which are more than ample to make the case that a species may have developed on Mars, lost its footing and civilization, and ended up here, on our good ol’ planet. Thank you, Nick.)

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