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Gravity waves are in the news again. Did Townsend Brown know – early in the 2oth century –  what scientists in the 21st century are just figuring out? This isn’t how I figured to start my Friday, but when this item crossed my transom this morning, whatever plan I had for the day took a

As I was finishing up The Man Who Mastered Gravity in the winter of 2023, I realized I had a lot of ancillary material that didn’t fit into the book. The 2008 manuscript had several appendices that are not included in the 2023 published edition.  There are also a lot of chapters that were excised in

I’m not exactly sure how this came to pass, but I learned this week that The Man Who Mastered Gravity has been discussed at considerable length on the Mysterious Universe podcast. You can find the podcast here. Discussion of the Townsend Brown story begins about 38:20 in – after some discussion of something called “The

According to Amazon.com this morning, The Man Who Mastered Gravity is the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER… (…in the admittedly narrow category of “New Releases in Nuclear Weapons & Warfare History” but… who’s counting? A win is a win.  Take the win.)

You know that scene at the end of ‘Back to the Future’ where George McFly opens the box with his books that have just been published? I just had a moment like that. And I didn’t have to go back in time or master any Chuck Berry riffs to get there.

 …or as it’s known here in the Parallel Universe, simply ‘TPX.’    So what’s all this about ‘The Philadelphia Experiment’ and what’s that go to do with Townsend Brown?? Over the next few days or weeks I’m going to pull the scales off this topic. I am motivated in part by a comment / review

“Writing a book is adventure to begin with. It’s a toy and amusement; then it becomes a mistress and then it becomes a master and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. –

I’m starting to wonder… …if this project is some kind of cursed. I just don’t seem to be able to get it over the ‘finished’! line.  There was a moment about a month ago when I seriously had the feeling, “it’s done.” It was a strange feeling, a sort of ‘authorial post-partum,’ a case of