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My July fund-raising campaign to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black is now over. I want to thank all those who so generously donated or subscribed, especially those who have become regular supporters. I can't do this without your help. I also find it increasingly hard to express how much your support means to me. God bless you all!

 

The donations during this year's campaign were sadly less than previous years, but for this I blame myself. I am tired of begging for money, and so I put up the campaign announcement at the start of the month but had no desire to update it weekly to encourage more donations, as I have done in past years. This lack of begging likely contributed to the drop in donations.

 

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On the radio

I will be appearing on Coast to Coast with George Noory tonight for two hours beginning at 10 pm (Pacific). It seems their scheduled guest had to cancel, and they asked if I’d fill in. I was glad to say yes.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

3 comments

  • jburn

    I enjoyed listening to this program and was especially thankful Richard Syrett was the host – his questions were both thoughtful and intelligent. Great job Robert!

  • Jeff Wright

    I like him as well.

  • Milt

    These days, it’s hard to know quite what to think about Coast to Coast. Thirty years on from its origins with Art Bell, it has changed a great deal, but it is still the premier alternative overnight radio program with probably the largest Overton Window of anything on the airwaves. What other show would host guests like Robert and Richard C. Hoagland on an equal opportunity basis and treat them both with genuine courtesy and respect?

    Sometimes, though, it does seem like its host is simply going through the motions, checking off questions in a perfunctory fashion, and sounding like his heart isn’t into this project quite as much as it used to be. He is, after all, 73 years old, and he has spent more time on the air interviewing a wider variety of people than anyone else that I can think of. Likewise, he has “heard it all” many times over, and it is probably hard to maintain a consistently high level of energy and enthusiasm for topics that are now far from being fresh, new, or original. But how many things, from remote viewing and ufology to the problem of the “lost history” of the human race have gained popular currency through their discussion on this program? For anyone paying attention to these tropes, Coast to Coast has been like an ongoing seminar in Fortean studies (and much more), and it would be hard to overestimate its influence on popular culture.

    Moreover, Mr. Noory has accomplished something like the impossible, first by keeping the program current for all of these years and remaining mostly true to its original intent. You don’t have to *believe in* everything that is presented, but it is set forth in a fashion that never demeans the guest and allows him or her a respectful, long forum opportunity to present the best case that they possibly can for their beliefs. In the course of this, he has developed a dependable stable of guest hosts, including Mr. Syrett, who adhere to this philosophy while bringing their own distinctive backgrounds and style to the ongoing search for what’s real.

    Finally — and I do see this as rather remarkable — Coast to Coast under Mr. Noory’s tenure has managed to shoot the rapids of political partisanship and pretty much refrain from taking sides in our country’s ongoing cultural civil war. Instead, he has always focused more on what unties us as a country and culture, and Coast has remained (unlike most of the programming on Fox, CNN, PBS, and NPR) as the last open watering hole where all of the animals can safely come to drink. And, I’d like to think, such carefully enforced neutrality has been maintained not out of timidity or lack of conviction but rather out of fundamental decency and respect. Thanks to Coast, once again, for providing this wonderful forum to one and all, agree or disagree what what might be said there.

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