Authors: JOHN FAIRLY and SIMOW WELFARE
What do you think about the doomsday
conspiracies? Do you feel that unexplainable things are signs by Aliens? Is
Bermuda triangle an enterprise run by ghost ships to absolve men and material
into the swirling depth of sea? Or is it because of a heavy magnetic current in
that region?
What real? What is more alluring? What will you
choose? Do you think fiction is more romantic and therefore more meaningful?
Should all things unexplained on earth be on a grander scale?
Hear this story then!
Darkness always scared me when I was a child. I
put on a brave front before others, but inside the heart of hearts, I was
always looking for a monster in the closet!
Especially
after 8 PM, I dared not go near our balcony, because I had found a monster's
torch!
A round disjointed ball of light used to shine at the edge of our
compound after dark. It cast an eerie glow
when seen from our balcony. I made a careful inspection of compound after
school each evening. But there was no light source in the compound; nor any
monsters. The fear drew me like a magnet towards our
balcony every night, and I scratched my head over the reason. That orange ball
of light occupied my thoughts every evening and my nights turned to nightmares.
Many months later I finally hit upon the reason
behind that spectral glow - a glass piece laced on our compound wall reflected
light from some faraway source. The mechanism to prevent intrusion was
transformed to a monster's torch with my fertile imagination. From then on I realized that the mysteries are
not really mysterious once we know the truth behind them. Of course a monster's
torch made a more fascinating story, but I'm more glad with the truth!
What if you got a book which took the most baffling
mysteries/superstitions happening around us and cracked the truth behind
them? Compiled by John Fairley and Simon Welfare, the book
"Arthur C. Clarke's mysteries" analyzes the truth behind some of the
dramatic phenomenon happening around us. This book has all the thrilling
components of a whodunit novel; each story has a proper build up, and the
spookiness added in the narration keeps us on toe till the end of the chapter
where facts are explained.
Building up over the TV series by Arthur C.
Clarke, this book contains the probable facts by the master SF writer himself.
This book made me believe that though this world is strange, it is still
logical!
So does the end of Mayan Calendar in 2012 mark
the end of the world? Or did the Mayans stop counting after that? Food for
thought!