- Hardcover: 261 pages
- Publisher: Piatkus Books; First Edition edition (25 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749921595
- ISBN-13: 978-0749921590
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 176,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jenny Randles is well known as one of the more sensible writers on UFOs, someone who prefers to look for "real-world" explanations--physiological, psychological, sociological, cultural--rather than immediately leaping for the "alien option". At first sight Time Storms might appear to be heading in the opposite direction, dealing as it does with time travel--surely the subject of science fiction. But Randles has some interesting and revealing things to say.
A lot of cases claimed by "UFOlogists" involve strange mists, reports of missing time--usually just a couple of hours--or people or things inexplicably being shifted in space. In the first half of her book Randles gives a large number of examples of these, and of similarly unusual accounts. Many of them are accompanied by what has become known as "the Oz Factor", "an eerie stillness and silence; the flow of time stopping inexplicably and leaving a numbing timelessness". All of these she sees as linked effects suggesting a disturbance of the space-time continuum, rather than anything to do with UFOs.
After the empirical--or at least, anecdotal--evidence, the second half of the book is as clear and straightforward an explanation as one might wish for of such complex issues as relativity theory, quantum physics and Schrödinger's cat. In proposing that what she calls "time storms" might eventually be scientifically explicable, Randles inevitably raises more questions than answers, but in this fascinating book she is pointing the way towards some intriguing future research. --David V Barrett
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This work explores the evidence that holes in time may occur on a regular basis as a result of a strange phenomenon - the time storm. It features reports of people who were actually transported across time and space and examines what time storms are, what causes them and what their effects are. The book also investigates time travel and time machines, evidence that suggests that alien abductions are really time storms, the links between near death experiences and time storms, and whether UFO's may in fact be time travellers from our own future.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was a fascinating and well written study of time anomalies, and provides great insight into possible explanations for time anomalies, with cutting edge science. This is a must read for those who are interested in the subject matter, if you are willing to read with an open mind. The only complaint that I have is that I would have liked to have seen more case studies of time slips and so-called reality blinks, but otherwise i found it to be almost unputdownable.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Yes - this contains a lot of cases that people familiar with the "paranormal" and "ufological" literature will have come accross - but its a refreshing way to look at the tales. This book grabbed my attention from the first page - and left my mind spinning by the last. Read it! :-)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Well done Jenny Randles for taking something so commonplace and developing it into such a fascinating idea. Well worth reading as long as you have an open mind.
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Two fingers up to the paranormal
I didn't think I was going to enjoy this book when I first started reading it; I thought it was just going to be endless case studies of the same phenomena. Boy, was I wrong. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Hugh Jarse
A different spin on an old theme
Unfortunately, there is not a great deal to recommend this latest effort from Ms. Randles. Mainly because it is a new spin on old material. Read more
Published on 31 July 2001
Promises much, delivers very little new information
If you've read anything by Jenny Randles this new effort will come as no surprise because she adheres to the well-worn principle, in this type of book at least, of writing about... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2001
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Jenny breaks the stranglehold of 'UFO orthodoxy' and brings readers back to a basic idea that the truth might actually just be stranger than fiction. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2001
An Intriguing Investigation into a mystifying phenomenon
This book makes an excellent introduction to many heavy subjects like relativity theory, quantum physics and the nature of time itself. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2001
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