SIS Book Service (some items available to non-members)
- Stargazers & Gravediggers, by Immanuel Velikovsky ('Memoirs to Worlds in Collision') - available to SIS members for under £5.00. Also available to non-members. Hardback, in excellent condition. Original William Morrow edition.
- Chronology & Catastrophism Review and Chronology & Catastrophism Workshop - back issues and article photocopies. ('Content listings' - of C&C Review - of C&C Workshop). Back issues also available to non-members
- 'Catastrophism' CD-Rom - 'Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences' . Contains SIS back issues of Review and Workshop (1978-2005), as well as several sources listed elsewhere on these pages. At discount to Members and with free 'Quantavolution Series' (15 vols.) CD-Rom by Alfred de Grazia. The 'Catastrophism' CD-Rom is also available to non-members.
- The Reversing Earth, by Peter Warlow. 1982 UK Hardback edition - Collectible.
- The Electric Universe, Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott. US hardback.
- Thunderbolts of the Gods, David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill. US - softback. Includes the 'Tutorial' DVD.
- The Electric Sky, Donald E. Scott. US - softback.
- Under Ancient Skies: Ancient Astronomy and Terrestrial Catastrophism, by Paul Dunbavin. UK - softback.
- The Atlantis Researches: The Earth's Rotation in Mythology and Prehistory, by Paul Dunbavin. UK - softback.
- Let There Be Darkness: The Reign of the Swastika, by Lewis M. Greenberg. US - hardback.
- The Sunken Kingdom: The Atlantis Mystery Solved, Peter James. UK - hardback.
- Centuries of Darkness, by Peter James, et al. UK - hardback.
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Catastrophism, Neocatastrophism and Evolution, by Trevor Palmer. UK softback.
Websites of Special Interest
- Plasma Universe - Associated with the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.
- Holoscience - Wal Thornhill's investigation and research into the 'Electric Universe'.
- Thunderbolts - discussion into the 'Electric Universe'.
- Aeon - A Journal of Myth and Science - explores the evidence for global catastrophes and interplanetary upheaval in the recent past, specializing in archaeoastronomy, ancient history and comparative mythology.
- Kronia Group - an Interdisciplinary Exploration of Myth, Science, and Planetary Catastrophe
- Plasma Cosmology - providing an introduction to the emerging Plasma Universe paradigm
- Mythopedia - plasma cosmology and the recent history of the Earth, as documented in the history of astronomy, cultural astronomy, archaeoastronomy and certain classes of mythology and ancient ritual.
- Maverick Science - Ev Cochrane's website. Saturn theory, Venus and Mars, myth, archaeoastronomy, evolution and history.
- Catastrophism Online - thousands of articles from the leading catastrophism journals over the past 30 years
- The Velikovskian - A Journal of Myth, History and Science
- The Velikovsky Archive - unofficial archive of Velikovsky's unpublished material.
- Quantavolution and Catastrophism Series - Alfred de Grazia's series of books.
- ISIS Archive - 'the advancement of research into the chronology, archaeology and history of the ancient world'. Promotes the 'New Chronology'. Publishers of Vols I - X of JACF - Journal of The Ancient Chronology Forum.
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Centuries of Darkness - Peter James, et al's site on revised chronology
Velikovsky and catastrophism
- Immanuel Velikovsky (Wikipedia) - links can be found here of sites and organisations both sympathetic and unsympathetic to Velikovsky's views.
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Kronia Group The 'Mythscape' video series, and many articles on Velikovsky.
- Ted Holden's Catastrophism Web site - "An attempt to provide a flavor and sampling of the new branch of science which has evolved from the works of scholars who have been following thelogical trail of historical reconstruction discovered by Immanuel Velikovsky in the 1940's and 1950's."
- The Immanuel Velikovsky Page
- On The Possibility Of Very Rapid Shifts Of The Poles, by F. Barbiero. Evidence exists that the poles have changed position during the past ages. This possibility, however, so far has been disregarded on the basis that such a phenomenon is thought to be physically impossible.
- The Velikovsky Archive - unofficial archive of Velikovsky's unpublished material.
- An Antidote to Velikovskian Delusions. A critical look at Velikovsky and the Saturnists, by Leroy Ellenberger
- talk.origins FAQ (Frequently asked questions), a critical look at:
Ancient History (revised and orthodox)
- Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Media and Chaldea - online books of George Rawlinson. Written from an orthodox viewpoint, and with several things that might now be disputed, the texts nevertheless contain a mine of information on the topography of each country and of the respective peoples and their culture.
- Centuries of Darkness, Peter James' site on revised chronology
- Ages ln Alignment series. A 4-volume book by Emmet Sweeney. Vol. 1: 'The Genesis of Israel and Egypt', Vol. 2: ''The Pyramid Age'; Vol. 3: 'Empire of Thebes', and Vol. 4: 'The Ramessides, Medes and Persians' (an earlier version of the latter was published as a special edition of The Velikovskian, Vol. V, no. 2). Also available from Amazon.
- Lisa (Aaronson) Liel's Ancient History Pages (revision). Essays and papers on ancient biblical history - and a link to the CHRONO e-mail list.
- ISIS Archive - Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum (JACF). Revised chronology (of David Rohl et al).
- The Revision of Ancient History - A Perspective, an introduction by John Crowe.
- Chronology at the Crossroads - The Late Bronze Age in Western Asia. Book by Dr. Bernard Newgrosh. An answer to the orthodox view that Assyrian history is fixed and cannot be downdated. Supports the 'New Chronology' model in most details.
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A Test of Time - by David Rohl. One of several books containing comprehensive and far-ranging evidence for redating Egyptian and biblical history (the 'New Chronology'). See the New Chronology discussion group (membership required) for details of this and Rohl's other books: The Lost Testament; Pharaohs and Kings; From Eden to Exile; and Lords of Avaris.
Assyrian/Babylonian Texts and Astronomy
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Sun and Saturn - by Morris Jastrow Jr. The Sun and Saturn are two very different celestial objects, yet the Babyonians appeared to 'confuse' the two ... or was it just the translators of the Babylonian texts [that were confused]?
Mythology and Myth/Ancient History
- Mythopedia - Rens van der Sluijs' grand synthesis and a new science of myth.
- The Mythology of the World Axis: Exploring the Role of Plasma in World Mythology, book by Rens van der Sluijs
- Myth's and Legends, dozens of links by Christopher B. Siren.
- Duke Papyrus Archive, electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt.
- Chicago Oriental Institute WWW Home Page
- Noncanonical Homepage, Full texts of: 1.Old Testament Apocrypha. 2. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 3.Apocryphal Acts 4.Apocryphal Apocalypse. 5.Apocryphal Gospels. 6.Apostolic Fathers. 7. Apostolic Fathers. 8. Other writings.
- Egyptology Home Page
A Starting points for material of interest to Egyptologists, material and resources mainly located here includes: Coffin Texts online word index, Prosopographia Aegypti, Egyptology in Germany, Special collections in the Heidelberg University Library, The University of Chicago Oriental Institute home page, Archaeology home page, Papyrology home page, Oxford Classics page, Coptic home page - Perseus Project Home Page
An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece including: How to see Greek with Microsoft Windows, Greek texts with morphological links to Liddell-Scott Lexicon! (Example: Aeschylus' Agammemnon). Art and Archaeology: Greek vases, coins, sculpture, and sites in the Perseus database. Includes links to word search of database, indices, images and examples. Primary Texts: Greek texts and translations, English word searches of the texts, and resources for textual studies. - ISIS archive - 'for the advancement of research into the chronology, archaeology and history of the ancient world'. Former publishers of JACF (the Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum).
- The Egyptologist's Electronic Forum
- Nebuchadnezzar & The Egyptian Exile, a revision of Egyptian dynastic history by Jim Reilly
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Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion - one of several books on mytholiogy and planetary identities by Ev Cochrane.
- God Star - a book by Dwardu Cardona
- Saturn Theory
- David Talbott's Saturnian model/polar configuration (C&C Review 2008). Presenting former and later research.
- Numerical Solution of the Planetary Alignment Equations. E Spedicato and Z. Huang. Starting from David Talbott, several people have argued that during the initial phase of human history, the planetary system of the Sun was radically different than now; the planets being aligned during their revolution round the Sun, with Saturn in a dominant position (the polar model).
- Mythopedia - Rens van der Sluijs
- The Many Faces of Venus - book by Ev Cochrane
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Science Frontiers (The Sourcebook Project)- William R. Corliss' bi-monthly collection of digests of scientific anomalies in the current literature. Hundred of short abstracts in many areas, including: archaeology, biology, geology, geophysics, psychology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, esoterica, bizarre biophysics, anomalous astronomy.
Archaeoastronomy and archaeology
- Center for Archaeoastronomy - University of Maryland. A study of the astronomical practices, celestial lore, mythologies, religions and world-views of all ancient cultures.
- ISAAC - the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture
- Sacred Sites - specialising in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. Michael Gray.
- Earth Matrix: Science in Ancient Artwork.
- Forbidden Archaeology - Michael A. Cremo
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Stonehenge Solved, a new theory based on overlooked archaeological facts. Leonard Saunders website.
- Organic and Pre-biotic Chemistry of Meteorites and Comets
- Catastrophism, Neocatastrophism and Evolution - book by Trevor Palmer.
- Environment of Violence series of books- Environment of Violence: Readings of Cataclysms in Stone; Expanding Geospheres: Energy and Mass Transfers from Earth's Interior; Hydridic Earth: The New Geology of our Primordially Hydrogen-Rich Planet; The Tectonics of Geoid Changes: and Major Deformation and Failure of the Earth's Crust: An Alternative to Plate Tectonics
- Shock Dynamics: A new paradigm for the geology of the Earth. John Michael Fischer.
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When the Earth Nearly Died: Compelling Evidence of A Catastrophic World Change 9,500 BC. A book by Derek S. Allan and J. Bernard Delair.
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The Reversing Earth - the book by Peter Warlow which is now a collectible and which members can obtain from the SIS Book Service. With photographs clearly showing how the tippe-top motion can accomplish an inversion of the Earth's rotational field in such a way as not to cause the ultimate disruption claimed by Velikovsky's detractors.
- Phil Burn's Catastrophism Web site, and extensive catastrophism bibliography.
- Chicxulub Impact Crater Provides Clues to Earth's History, by Virgil L. Sharpton, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. (Unfortunately, the author overlooks, or is unaware of, the prior claim by Rene Gallant that it was an asteroid impact that caused the demise of the dinosaurs).
- When the sky fell on our heads: Identification and interpretation of impact products in the sedimentary record.
- A Cosmic trail with destruction in its wake, by Nick Nuttall
- Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions - videos and CD's from R. E. D. Productions.
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Evidence for Astronomical Aspects of Mankind's Past and Recent Cimate, by Timo Niroma.
- Comets and Asteroids and Future Cosmological Catastrophes - Glen W. Chapman (compiler)
- Spacewatch Project
- Small Bodies in the Solar System; Asteroids; Meteors; Meteorites and Impacts; Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
- The Planetary Society - research on cometary and asteroidal impacts and NEO deflection programes.
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Apollo Objects, Atlantis and Other Tales: A Catastrophical Scenario for Discontinuities in Human History, by E. Spedicato
- The Mars-Earth Wars, book by Donald Wesley Patten and Samuel R. Windsor
- When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis - book by Rose and Rand Flem-Ath
- Meta Research - on the origin and nature of celestial bodies.
- Ignatius Donnelly - website about Donnelly and his work, by Dick Meehan.
- Comets, Culture & Catastrophism - Bob Kobres' web page
- Man as old as Coal - Ed Conran's battle to show that human bones have been found in coal.
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The Quantavolution and Catastrophism Series - Alfred de Grazia's series of books: The Burning of Troy * Chaos and Creation * The Divine Succession * God's Fire: Moses and the Management of the Exodus * Solaria Binaria * Homo Schizo I * Homo Schizo II * The Lately Tortured Earth * The Velikovsky Affair * The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars * Ka (Hugh Crosthwaite) * A Fire Not Blown (Hugh Crosthwaite) * Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky & Cultural Amnesia (Earl Milton).
- The Plasma Universe (The Plasma Museum), at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Anthony L. Peratt.
- Holoscience - Wal Thornhill's website on 'The Electric Universe'. An astounding concordance between modern plasma physics and the ancient testimony of battling planets.
- The Electric Cosmos - Don Scott. Includes pages on electric plama, missing matter, our Sun, star neutrinos, and ancient history.
- The World Axis as an Atmospheric Phenomenon - book by Rens van der Sluijs. (Details of The Mythology of the World Axis: Exploring the Role of Plasma in World Mythology acessible via the same link).
- The Electric Universe model of Dipl. Phys. Dr. Engineer Laszlo Kortvelyessy.
- Lightning in Astronomy, by Eric Crew.
- Gravity, Magnetism & Light - charge polarisation inside electrons and atomic nuclei. Ralph Sansbury.
- Plasma Cosmology - the emerging plasma universe paradigm.
- Online books by Alfred de Grazia (check table of contents for relevant chapters): God's Fire: Moses and the Management of the Exodus * Chaos and Creation * The Burning of Troy * Solaria Binaria (with Earl Milton).
- Cosmos without Gravitation, by Immanuel Velikovsky. Scripta Academica Hierosolymitana, 1946.
- Electricity in Space, by H. Alfven (article in The New Astronomy, 1955).
- Mechanics Bears Witness, by Irving Michelson. (Pensee IVR issue 7, 1973).
- The Not So Stable Sun, by Earl Milton (Kronos Vol. V, no. 1,1979).
- Electric Stars in a Gravity-Less Electrified Cosmos, by Earl Milton (SIS Review Vol. V, no. 1, 1980).
- "Limited Fusion" and "Anode-Stars", by Martin Sieff (SIS Workshop Vol. 4, no. 3, 1981).
- The Solar System and Electro-Gravitic Theory, by Charles Ginenthal.(Aeon Vol. 1, no. 3, 1988).
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The Electro-Gravitic Theory of Celestial Motion & Cosmology, by Charles Ginenthal. (Special issue of The Velikovskian, Vol. IV:3).
- Searching for the cause - the great fire of Chicago, October 8th 1871.
- Aeon - A Journal of Myth and Science.
- Chronology & Catastrophism Review - Interdisciplinary. 1975 to present. Journal of The Society for Interdisciplinay Studies (SIS). c. 60pp.
- Chronology & Catastrophism Workshop " " SIS Members' thrice-yearly magazine (c. 32-36 pp).
- Kronos -The Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis. The 1970's series, republished and available on CD-Rom.
- Pensee: Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered (IVR)- The 1970's series, republished and available on CD-Rom.
- The Velikovskian - editor Charles Ginenthal
- Zeitensprunge - Heribert Ilig's German magazine online. Covers interdisciplinary themes such as catastrophism, prehistoric and ancient history revision.
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Configurations - The official publication of the Society for Literature and Science. The only journal devoted to the study of discourse pertaining to the theories and practices of science, technology and medicine. The journal explores the relationship of literature and the arts to technology and the sciences.
- 'The Fall and Rise of Catastrophism' - Lecture given at Nottingham Trent University on 25th April 1996 by Trevor Palmer. Uniformitarians and Catastrophists; The Rise and Apparent Triumph of Uniformitarianism; The Disregarded Cosmic Dimension; Catastrophism Reborn (in C&C Review 1996:1).
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Perilous Planet Earth - Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages, a book by Trevor Palmer. Evolution, geology, astronomy, social anthropology and history.
- Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, by Duncan Steel (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1995).
- Craters, Cosmos and Chronicles, by Herbert R. Shaw (Stanford University Press, 1995) .
- Rain of Iron and Ice, by John S. Lewis (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, 1996).
- Mining The Sky, by John S. Lewis (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading 1996).
- Fire on Earth, by John and Mary Gribbin (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996).
- Impact! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids, by Gerrit Veschuur (Oxford University Press, 1996).
- Doomsday Asteroid, by Donald W. Cox and James H. Chestek (Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 1996).
- New Insights to Antiquity, book by Richard Petersen.
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Dance of the Planets, book by Angiras. Knowledge, mythology and modern science, revealing a 3,000 year sequence of chaotic interactions betwen Venus, Mars and Earth within proto-historical times.
- The Sourcebook Project - P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057, USA. William R. Corliss. Pulbishers of Science Frontiers
- The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (est. 1974) - publishers of Chronology & Catastrophism Review and Chronology & Catastrophism Workshop). Also, in association with Nottingham Trent University, publishers of Catastrophism, Neocatastrophism and Evolution, by Trevor Palmer.
- Pacific Meridian Publishing, 13540 39th Ave. N. E., Seattle, WA 98125, USA. Tel/fax: +1 206 365 1640. Books on planetary catastrophism, including: The Biblical Flood & The Ice Epoch; The Long Day of Joshua; Catastrophism and the Old Testament; The Recent Organization of the Solar System; The Ark of Noah; Symposium on Creation VI; Environment of Violence; Expanding Geospheres; Science & Christianity, a Partnership; Escape from Einstein; plus two videos: 'Cataclysm from Space 2800 BC' and 'The Discovery of Noah's Ark'.
- Govardhan Hill Publishing - publishers of Foribidden Archaeology, The Hidden History of the Human Race, the book by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson.
- Polar Publishing - four books in the 'Environment of Violence', series.
- The Millennium Group - organised to create an unbiased outlet for scientific research and critical thinking. Covers cosmology and planetary, cometary, solar, and galactic theories. Also contains the article 'The Day the Sun Stood Still', by Eric Larabee (editor of Harper's Magazine in January 1950) which was released as a prelude to the publication of Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision.
- Kronos Press - catastrophism, ancient history, cosmology, myth and symbolism.
- The Velikovskian
- Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock's best-seller on ancient civilisations. All his books can be found on his official website here.
- Robert Bauval's website and books - author of The Orion Mystery (with Adrian Gilbert), and Keeper of Genesis (with Graham Hancock).
- Books by Jerry L. Ziegler - including YHWH and Indra Girt by Maruts.
- Red Earth, White Lies, by Vine Deloria Jr. A compendium of Indian oral traditios and folklore that challenges the accepted scientific theories of evolution and radiocarbon-dating techniques.
- The Mayan Prophecies: Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilisation, by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell.
- Essays in speculative science - Frederick Jueneman's books: The Limits of Uncertainty and Raptures of the Deep.
- Questioning Gravity - details of a book by Arthur Wilkinson
- Alan Alford's Home Page. Author of the books: Gods of the New Millennium, 1996 (covering a vast array of ancient mysteries and exploring the controversial possibility that the gods of ancient mythology were a flesh-and-blood race - recommended reading for adherents of Zecharia Sitchin); and The Phoenix Solution, 1998 (focusing on ancient Egypt, with a comprehensive decoding of the Pyramid texts which, Alford considers, reveals that the Egyptian religion was an exploded planet cult - which idea is extremely similar to the modern astronomical theory of Dr. Tom Van Flandern).
- Alternative Science Website -an alternative view of scientific discoveries by controversial writer, broadcaster and journalist, Richard Milton.
- Catastrophe/Apocalypse - a course given every Autumn (fall) at Bard College, New York, by Prof. William Mullen.
- Maverick Science - Ev Cochrane's website
- Thoth - The Kronia Group's electronic Newsletter. Mainly, but not exclusively, containing views on the 'electric universe' theory. Ceased publication c. 2004.
- Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky- by Charles Ginenthal
- Stephen J. Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky- by Charles Ginenthal