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2002
December 2002:
Update on New York Times Article
An update to my November update regarding the Times
plan to run yet another anti-alien encounter article. The article ran on December
18th. Though the article cannot be reprinted here due to the Times
fee-based article service, it essentially reported that Clancy's study had
less to do with alien encounters than it had to do with her effort to assert
that memories of sexual abuse are not real. She was described as “canny”
in the way she went about making herself one with the anti-repressed memory
faction at Medical School, and the whole situation was described as “political”
by Dr. Ron Brown, a leading expert on memory at Harvard (who strenuously disagreed
with Clancy's beliefs about the nature of memory). The article was generally
fair in the way it presented how the repressed memory debate continues in
academia; aliens did not figure largely in the article at all. Some mockery
on the part of the reporter was evident in the repeated use of the term “space
aliens” rather than simply “aliens,” as if the meaning was
not already implied in the context of the article, but aside from that it
was a non-event.
And that article has turned out to be mere prelude to yet another article
on the study which will run in an upcoming issue of Psychology Today.
When has such a weak study ever received so much press?
Taken
Meanwhile, many other papers, and even the Arts section of the Times,
have been writing about Taken. Two of the best interviews with the
screenwriter of Taken appear here,
and here.
A second Taken related update: Set your tivo's to 3AM late-late night
of December 13 (actually, that's 3AM December 14) to see one hour of highlights
from the SciFi Channel's two recent UFO symposiums — one in New York
featuring UFO researchers, and one in Washington DC featuring scientists discussing
life in the universe. These events were streamed over the internet but now
they're ready to show some of it on the SciFi Channel (the cable tv channel)
itself. The late timeslot is due to their not having known for sure if the
symposiums would turn out as well as they did (so they hadn't reserved any
prime time spots for it). This special will premiere on Friday, December
13 at 3:00 a.m.
and will be repeated at the following times:
Sunday, 12/22/02 at 2:00 a.m.
Friday, 12/27/02 at 7:00 a.m.
Saturday, 12/28/02 at 5:00 a.m.
Third Taken update, and then that's it: The Digital Bits is reporting
that Taken will arrive on DVD sooner than later: “Here's a brief
but cool bit of news, confirmed with the studio. DreamWorks is currently hard
at work on a DVD release of Steven Spielberg's Taken miniseries, which
is now playing on the Sci-Fi Channel. The release is set for next year.”
I wouldn't expect it until mid to late 2003, since the program won't even
air in the UK until January and it is unlikely they'd want people importing
the DVD before the BBC gets its chance to show the series. This DVD release
should be a welcome product for people like me who don't have cable, and haven't
been able to see any of this television event.
Suggestion: If you want the Taken DVDs to include the documentary
The Abduction Diaries as an extra, let SciFi Channel know now. Head over
to their website and ask them to please include it.
November 2002:
“Steven said one thing to me about aliens early on: he said they're
not friends or foes. They don't think like us.”
—Leslie Bohem, screenwriter, on producer Steven Spielberg
Click
here for full interview
Far too much going on to report. Simple advice is head over to the SciFi
Channel website and check out the many events and specials (and chats)
that are leading up to Steven Spielberg's miniseries. This kind of attention
hasn't been focused on the alien encounter phenomenon since – dare I
say? – since Communion was on the New York Times bestseller
list in the eighties. What is different this time? More perspective, and many
more voices having the courage to say what they know...some of which will
be seen on the SciFi Channel's upcoming documentary, The Alien Abduction
Diaries, “an intimate look at otherworldly encounters, their aftermath
and the unexpected impact on human lives” by award-winning documentary
filmmakers Tina DiFeliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner. One of the experiencers
who courageously appears on the program recently wrote an open letter describing
her impressions of the filmmakers: “Their approach towards the subject
of contact impressed me. They were much more open to the perspective that
contact could be a positive experience, that aliens weren’t necessarily
bad guys and a threat to humanity. And they abhorred the traditional sensationalism
that tends to be portrayed in such programs.” “I realize that working
on this major media project is a risk,” she continues, “but I felt
participating in this might be an important and hopefully positive contribution
to educating the public about UFOs and contact experience, which is why I
went ahead.” We'll see if the filmmakers' talent in making films about
social issues is reflected in this program very soon – late November
airdates are approaching: Friday, November 22, at 10PM, Saturday, November
23, at 4PM, Tuesday, November 26, at 8AM.
A New Dreamland
In a new journal
entry on the end of the syndication of Whitley Strieber's Dreamland radio
program (the program will continue as an independent effort by Whitley on
his website) Whitley takes a moment to lash out again about his lack of positive
book reviews (though it seems like there were at least two or three glowing
reviews of The Last Vampire last year) and suggests the mainstream
media are set against him. And yet, consider: The Last Vampire gets
good reviews (not in the Times, but elsewhere, such as in Publishers
Weekly), becomes a book club offering, and nearly gets a movie deal. Most
authors would love this kind of accomplishment, it is sad to see it not being
enjoyed.
The Hunger DVD Rumblings
If advance word from overseas is true, Region 2 readers (that's the UK)
can look forward to The Hunger on DVD coming from Warner on September
29, 2003. No announcement yet regarding a US Region 1 release.
New
York Times to Run Alien Encounter Article Soon!
12 Nov: The New York
Times, which seemingly never runs any stories about alien encounters unless
it is to discredit them with even the most feeble arguments, may be about
to do so again, this time by promoting a rather weak study conducted by Susan
Clancy at Harvard (described last week in the Harvard Gazette). Her
experiment showed that experiencers tend to have more recall errors when recalling
thematically grouped lists of words. The study author claims this is evidence
that experiencers create and believe in “false memories,” but the
connection between remembering events and word-lists (and the confidence in
those memories) seems rather slender even to non-scientists.
In a thematic word-list experiment one is given a list of words such as pillow,
sheet, mattress, comforter, alarm clock, teddy bear (for example). Later,
after a suitable distraction such as arithmetic equations, one is asked to
recall the words, at which time one may or may not erroneously include the
inferred word “bed,” and even feel confident that was one of the
words.
Elsewhere on the web, in a rebuttal
you will likely never see in the Times (even though it and two accompanying
rebuttals were provided to the Times), doctoral student in theoretical
neuroscience Catherine Reason explains why Clancy's study is inherently weak:
| “Obviously, there's mammoth leap of faith involved in generalizing
from a mistake on a word-list to the assumption that whole memories for
extended, anomalous events can be created more or less arbitrarily. But
there's another flaw in this study which is rather more subtle. “The type of error which Clancy has induced in her subjects involves an inference from context. Evidently her experimental paradigm is such that this is defined a priori to be an error. The problem is, that in the context of brain-function generally, this sort of contextual inference isn't an error at all — in fact, it's an essential part of the way the brain operates. “To show how, take the 'occluded object' problem. It often happens in the real world that we can't see whole objects all at once, we can only see part of them. Nevertheless, we infer the existence of the unseen part of the object from our contextual knowledge — if we see someone we know standing behind a car, we don't assume that the part of them we can't see is missing, just because we can't see the whole person. This sort of process underlies a number of visual illusions, such as the Kanizsa triangle. Indeed, an inability to make inferences from context is one of the characteristic deficits found in certain neurological conditions, such as autism and Asperger's Syndrome. “So, what Clancy defines as an error is only an error because the experimental context of her study is completely unrealistic — an extremely common problem in experimental psychology. Looked at in another way, what Clancy has found is that people with 'recovered' memories tend to be better at inferring from context.” |
Assuming her study was accurate, why would experiencers have
a greater tendency towards inferring from context? Are experiencers simply
more conceptual than verbal? Have they always been this way, or does it track
with experiences? It is a provocative, though weak, study — but not for
the reasons the researcher believes.
Watch the Times, see if they do their usual. Perhaps we'll be surprised,
and they'll include some of the rebuttals. (This upcoming article should not
be confused with upcoming Times coverage of the Taken miniseries, which
is also being prepared now).
Update! If the article does not
present this, the Times ability to fairly report the news will be soundly
put into question: The Times reporter today spoke with Daniel Brown,
Ph.D., an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School
and an expert on the subject of trauma and memory (Dr. Brown has worked alongside
such luminaries as Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D, exploring how memories are
organized at different stages of development, and the differences between
recollection of ordinary and traumatic events in adults and children. He also
has written with Ken Wilber on aspects of Tibetan culture, as he is fluent
in Tibetan). I have it on good authority that he shared with the Times
reporter his assessment of Clancy's study; relating his view that her study
was weak. This type of study, he reportedly explained, is fundamentally poor,
even when followed with the precision expected of a Harvard student.
So in conclusion, I hope that by presenting this behind-the-scenes process
in how a Times story is created, we may all learn more about whether
the Times is a reputable source of balanced information. I've asserted
that the reporter has received four rebuttals to the Clancy study; three written
statements and one long interview with a top-grade expert. We will soon see
what the reporter deems worthy of inclusion.
Update! Did the feedback kill the
story? No sign of it in the paper yet. I'm not sure if that could be considered
a victory or not... it may have been nice if the Times had run a story saying
that “a Harvard study which seemed to suggest alien encounters were false
memories has been described as being really lame.”
Update! I spoke to the reporter,
and learned the article will run this week (first week of December). I did
not ask her if they were trying to counter the impact of the Taken miniseries.
You can decide for yourself; should be on the stands any day now.
Special Update
21 Oct: That countdown in the
upper left corner of the BeyondCommunion.com screen is about to reach 0. The
script was meant to remind me of (and share with you) an impression I received
that we — the world, that is — may recieve a signal through an old-fashioned
means such as the innane SETI system on the day before United Nations Day.
(United Nations Day is Oct 24; this countdown was supposed to reach zero on
Wednesday Oct 23 but it looks like I may have fuzzed the javascript a bit.)
If you recall my description (which I only shared in vague terms after Whitley
wrote a journal entry describing a slightly similiar message had been given
to him), this signal would be a casual way of saying the alien presence is
here; it would serve as a safe (and in some ways expected) way for the aliens
to announce that they are ready to come out into the world more openly (I
suspected they would wait several months after having given the signal before
they'd come out, to give us time to mentally prepare). Well, it is less than
two days until October 23, the day before United Nations Day, and so far I
don't feel anything much in the way of whether it will or will not happen.
Yet something else is happening, and if I weren't so skeptical I'd be tempted
to say maybe this is the signal I was looking for (I can't say that, because
frankly it isn't...but read on). At the National Press Club in Washington
on Tuesday October 22, a day early IMO, John Podesta, former Clinton White
House Chief of Staff, has been hired to represent (and will speak on behalf
of) an effort funded by the SciFi Channel and their parent company Vivendi
to encourage release of all government knowledge of alien visitors. This event
is remarkable in that Podesta could easily have passed on this job, given
his stature, if he felt it were not an interest that deserved to be heard.
Danny Sheehan is down in Washington for this as well, with more hope perhaps
than he had earlier when Steven Greer tried something similar. So are we at
the point where the public, so tired of lies from our current administration,
will decide that it is important to eventually declassify government records,
particularly when the suppression of the knowledge within may be keeping the
public in an impoverished stasis? To have this kind of spokesman is, at the
least, a notable improvement. Whether it signals a change is something we
will only know in retrospect. But watch the news, carefully.
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Update!
I feel I need to clarify that my interest in the above event
was not in relation to the disclosure effort per se; I've said before
that there's no need to seek validation from the government, because
the truth is out there in human experience, it is not in files. Whether
the government knows anything is irrelevant. My interest was in seeing
a top name involved in an effort for the truth to be known. That is
meaningful. My feeling is that hiding the truth that we are not alone,
that we are part of a larger world is hindering our desire to advance,
leaving us uninterested in fulfilling our best potentials or advancing
our culture in meaningful, long-term ways. Even in small ways—such
as our regrettable tendency towards designing architecture which is
not meant to improve the landscape—we show how we do not have faith
in the long term sustainment of our species. Knowing that humanity is
part of a much larger story, as would happen from such a signal, will,
I expect, encourage us to express our talents exponentially.
We will appreciate how we are unique, even compared to aliens who may
be similar in some ways, and we will be reminded of how much skill and
talent we have. That's my feeling. Far from being fascinated by aliens,
I think knowing they exist will make us fascinated by life. The same
love of common ideals which was sensed when the world united in celebration
on New Years 2000 will be felt by our world. Ideally, that is. (I'm
aware some have a much more fearful forecast—born out of healthy
concern for our species, I should add—but I'm a bit of an optimist).
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Whitley's New Novel Lilith's Dream in Stores Sunday Oct
6th
This update is cribbed from the official newsletter:
...Publishers Weekly has called Whitley's writing in this book the work of
a “superb prose stylist,” but gone on to complain that it's “X-Rated.”
...Whitley Strieber responds: “Sex as God gave it to us is clean and
pure. It's our minds that make it dirty. I am no pornographer, and I'm proud
of the beautiful, natural sexuality in Lilith's
Dream.” It's a vampire story, and his new vampire, Lilith, is
some kind of a classic. Who else would have asked themselves the question:
how does an ancient goddess cope with credit cards, the automobile, television
and modern forensic science? The answer makes for a fun, deeply humorous and
totally thrilling read. And the end of this book will completely stun any
close encounter witness who has had face-to-face contact with the 'blondes'
and knows just how eerie and wonderful they really are. Also, there is a riff
on human love in the last few pages that has reduced us all to tears. It's
an amazing book, truly.
BeyondCommunion webmaster note: If it is even half
as erotic as the magnificent cover art, we're in for a treat!
Lilith's Dream Mini-Tour
A select number of Southern California and Texas author appearances will be
held in the last two weeks of October; click
here for details. This is an even smaller tour than last time, so you
may want to get there early to get a good seat.
As with the last tour, BeyondCommunion welcomes any photos and anecdotes about
any of his appearances.
Must Be Dreaming
Well it has finally happened. After nearly four years of keeping BeyondCommunion.com
active, I've finally received my very first free promo unit. Now, I didn't
get into this gig for free books or anything (not that I was against it or
anything), but it is still a pleasant and remarkable surprise that I've at
last received a free copy of the hardcover of Lilith's Dream, and the
accompanying presskit, which at the very least makes up for my having used
my own money to acquire an Advance Reading Copy from ebay in August. Thanks
Simon & Schuster. So how does this affect you? I'll have some excerpts
from the presskit up on the site soon (that's how), in the Lilith's
Dream section.
Update! “A Conversation
with Whitley Strieber,” a promotional interview from the presskit,
is now up. I'd advise you not to read all the way through to the end of the
interview, as some plot points are given away in the final questions and answers.
(I've taken the liberty of altering one of the questions, to preserve some
of the mystery).
August/September 2002:
Whitley's Journal: “The Demon Eye of Knowledge”
Whitley's new Journal entry (at his official
website; dated September 19th, 2002) is a fascinating read, and goes some
ways toward resolving the disturbing experience that he reported in his previous
Journal entry. My only question is, where does one get blessed salt?
The Path
Whitley's next nonfiction book, The
Path,
will be self-published and released via his website on August 15 (or soon
thereafter, as the case may be).
9 AUGUST: Update! Preorders
are being accepted now over at Whitley's official site!
Advance Reading Copies of Lilith's
Dream, Whitley Strieber's upcoming sequel to The Last Vampire,
have been sent out to critics but the rest of the world must wait until October.
The ARC's cover is
plain red paper, no color wraps yet. But judging by the font, the cover should
match The Last Vampire nicely.
I've just started reading it, and so far it reminds me a little bit of The English Patient,
except in reverse. (At this moment, there's probably only a handful of people
who will “get” the humor in that observation — Hi, Whitley!).
Wolfen DVD Limping in
Not only is the film version
of Wolfen a week late in arriving on DVD, but the much touted commentary track
by cast members Albert Finney, Diane Venora and Edward James Olmos is nowhere
to be found. This is part of a growing trend this year where a studio announces
a commentary track on their press releases and on the spec sheets sent to
retailers, but then never sends an updated announcement out to anyone when
they decide to cancel that feature. The only extra on the disc besides the
film itself is the movie trailer, and some text notes. (Frankly, I think I'll
be buying the new edition of Cat People instead...which, while
not having anything to do with Whitley Strieber, is a thriller from the same
era which does have a commentary track)
26 July 2002 ~ 1 a.m. -
2 a.m.
Waldorf, Maryland
(near Andrews Air Force Base and Washington D.C.)
“'It was this object, this light-blue
object, traveling at a phenomenal rate of speed,' Rogers said. 'This Air Force
jet was right behind it, chasing it, but the object was just leaving him in
the dust. I told my neighbor, 'I think those jets are chasing a UFO.'
'”
—Renny Rogers, witnes
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“People see what they want to see. What these
people reported could have been exhaust from the jet itself, depending
on whether or not the pilot was on or off afterburners. We don't think
it was a UFO.” “There are any number of scenarios, but we don't
know what it was.” |
“...this just happens to be the 50th
anniversary of a series of still-unexplained sightings over the nation's capitol,
a story that made banner-headline news in 1952.”
—Brian Wilson, FOX News
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Washington Post: © 2002 The Washington Post Company |
CNN: FOX: WTOP Radio: |
June/July 2002:
The Path
Whitley's next nonfiction book, The
Path,
will be self-published and released via his website in mid-August.
Whitley in Aug/Sept UFO Magazine
Whitley was interviewed by Sean Casteel for next month's UFO Magazine
(the US magazine, not the UK one with the same name). Although the interview
is mainly about how books are turned into films, Whitley shares some amazing
news about what he's been writing. In addition to describing Lilith's
Dream in even more detail, he reveals that he is considering developing
the long-planned but never-written sequel to his lupine classic The Wolfen
(see our unreleased section
for a bit of history on this concept).
Wolfen Approaching
Added a couple high resolution black & white stills from the film
version of Wolfen, in anticipation of the arrival of the DVD in August.
Also added Polish book cover art over in the Wolfen
book area.
Quotes from the Edge
Wise words from a new poster to Whitley's
official message board at UnknownCountry.com: “The trauma you experienced
from your abduction is a result of not being able to properly reference your
experience because currently, our society has no place for these experiences
in religious, or societal life. Therefore you we unable to properly index
these experiences, hence the trauma that you experienced. The trauma was not
in and of itself due to the experiences, but rather due to your inability
to property classify, absorb and integrate those experiences into who you
are within your own belief system.”
May 2002:
Signed (maybe), Sealed and Delivered (in about 6 months)
One of the best, and most unique books from Whitley and Anne Strieber may
be republished in the near future. In early May Whitley remarked on his website
that “the Communion
Letters [are] a few of the letters we received about close encounter
experiences. They represent something that has been totally suppressed by
the UFO community and the media--that these experiences are WAY stranger than
anybody with an agenda about them wants to know. This book got zilch promotion
from its publisher, and we are going to republish it in about six months.”
Whitley's Slush Fund Expands
Variety has reported that 20th Century Fox won an auction for The Day After
Tomorrow, director Roland Emmerich's “global-warming extravaganza
rife with hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and the onset of the next ice
age.” What Variety did not mention is that this is Emmerich's adaption
of Whitley Strieber's story The Coming Global Superstorm. According
to Whitley, Emmerich wrote the script with Jeffrey Nachmanoff. On a personal
note, I found ice on my windsheild last week; this sort of thing is why I
couldn't bring myself to read Superstorm. For more information on the
chronology of this property, see our tv & video section.
New Short Story
A new short story by Whitley Strieber should be appearing in the next volume
from the Adams Round Table. Murder in the Family is the name of the
collection; no word yet on what the title of Whitley's entry is.
Cover Art
Another cover from far away across the pond. Here's the 1986
Grafton (UK) paperback cover of Nature's End.
Taken Away
This is the webmaster of Beyond Communion speaking here: I ended up not being
in the SciFi Channel documentary, The Abduction Diaries, currently
in production which will air at about the same time Steven Speilberg's alien
encounter miniseries Taken airs this December. I was accepted, but
I declined to travel to their studio in New York after they'd determined they'd
prefer not to travel out. Though I had no interest in having my face on tv
I'd have liked to reassure the public that they need not be afraid, they just
need to be prepared. I'd have done it for that reason. Plus, the past work
of these producers indicates that they have minds capable of presenting material
with greater depth than most. But worry not; the producers have told me that
about fifteen people have been interviewed and they've been terribly impressed
by everyone.
March/April 2002:
Last Vampire Sighted in the UK
Both The Last Vampire and the reissue
of The Hunger became available as UK printings this month; you likely
already picked up the imports from the US.
Wolfen Headed Your Way
Our heat-sensitive cameras have detected that
Wolfen will be arriving on DVD later this year (early August). The film
version of Strieber's The Wolfen was directed by Michael Wadleigh. A
commentary track by actors Albert Finney, Diane Venora and Edward James
Olmos is anticipated.
More Cover Art
We've got a new import cover for you; this
one is the first Italian
edition (hardcover, I think) of Majestic, released in Italy in 1991.
Looks like the title was in foil, since it does not appear to have scanned well
(we snagged this image on the Italian ebay). The cover art fulfills one of the
clichés mentioned in the update below, by the way. Update! An Italian
version of The Wolfen,
and War Day.
Best Alien-Themed Book Cover Since
Communion
The cover art of Whitley Strieber's alien encounter
book Communion swiftly became a classic, likened by some to the Mona
Lisa. Most other books about alien encounters have resorted to derivative drawings
of aliens or, more typically, a light in the sky shining onto a road or through
trees or through a window, etc. But sometimes, very occasionally, a book on
alien encounters comes out that has a cover which is nearly as much of an instant
classic as Communion. Prudence Calabrese's new book is one. Check it
out, and see for yourself if this isn't the best alien encounter themed book
cover of the year:
View
cover.
More Miscellaneous Musings from the
Webmaster
Still no word on whether Dr. Mack's organization
will find the required major financial support to continue, but as stated earlier,
I am planning on adding a subsection
to BeyondCommunion.com that will save some of the best of Dr. Mack's writings
and recordings, so that even if his official websites expire, a few documents
will remain online. Essentially, they will be a selection of what currently
appears at www.passporttothecosmos.com
and www.experiencers.com.
By the way, an unusual media request for Dr. Mack came in last week: be on the
lookout for an upcoming issue of Stuff magazine with some words from
Dr. Mack (possibly with some accompanying artwork by yours truly!).
February 2002:
Lilith's Dream
Some new leads on Whitley's next novel are
in the Future Works section. That's
about all the updates for the moment, I just got the flu so my plans are to
be in pain for the next few days.
New Cabin Pictorial
We've got a new vintage pictorial of the original
New York countryside cabin, including some nice panoramas carefully assembled
from panning videocamera footage, circa 1989. Check
it out, and remember, no tresspassing.
Last Vampire Film Laid to Rest
Whitley reported in an
interview with LesbiaNation that Colmbia pictures decided to let their option
expire on the film rights to The Last Vampire. At least Whitley got paid.
January 2002:
12.31.01:
What a difference a year makes. Last New Year's Eve, I was at home watching
the world joined in celebration, each city reaching the New Year with festivities
unlike any we'd ever seen. (I particularly liked Paris). We'd achieved something
few thought we would - a unity of spirit, a transpersonal recognition that all
of humanity shares the same hopes and passions for this life. We all want joy.
Now, a year later, I'm waiting with shallow breaths, hoping that no suitcase
nuke goes off in New York City's Times Square.
Oh my God.
Whitley just posted (10 Jan) a journal entry that
says something I have kept private for the past several months.
Maybe you've noticed a countdown in the upper left corner of the screen here
on BeyondCommunion.com and wondered what I may have had on my mind. I had on
my mind a signal and meaning about what the signal would signify. You
can now read about it on Whitley's official website, Unknown
Country, his latest journal entry.
Whitley Strieber Writing New Book
As reported late last year, Whitley's writing
a new autobiographical book...and a third vampire story. Details on the Future
Works page.
Authors on the Web
Whitley Strieber is one of a several authors who participated in an authors
forum on the web, discussing horror fiction. See his replies, and the replies
of colleagues in his field, by clicking
here.
New Interviews and Articles Added
We've added some new articles to The
Last Vampire section of this website, including a great interview from
the San Antonio Express-News, and a brief blurb from The Advocate. We've also
added more cover art, including a 1983 paperback edition of Black Magic
from the Netherlands, and a Russian
cover of The Hunger. By the way, I don't own these overseas editions,
I rely on fans from overseas (like you, perhaps?) to send in scans (and I also
canvas foreign book stores' websites).
Tales from the Book Tour
Gareth Davies shares his account of his trip to see Whitley Strieber speak last
year at the Brentano's Century City book store in Los Angeles. Click here
to read the perceptive and witty account and see pics.
2001 Archives
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to enter.
Updates so great, I can't even tell you!
2000 Archives
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to enter.
Many more great updates!
1999 Archives
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to enter.
Many great updates!
History
This website went online in November 1998. On May 11th
1999, Whitley Strieber's official website linked to this website, tripling our
number of visitors. In May 2000, with Whitley's blessing this website secured
it's own domain name,
www.beyondcommunion.com.
People Living in the World Beyond the
United States are invited to send in scans of the covers of your (non-US) editions
of Whitley Strieber's books. Even if the artwork is only slightly different,
it may be interesting and fun! Also, please let us know of any interviews
we may have missed!
