Bøker av Brian Baker

Why do Canadians stifle their interest in the paranormal?Canada's paranormal roots run deep -- from ghost stories told around flickering campfires to inexplicable encounters -- but our polite, risk-averse nation buries these experiences and this history under layers of unease. We fear stigma, career fallout, the unknown itself, and our cultural discomfort with death only deepens the feeling, pushing our ghostly heritage further into the shadows only to come out during the Halloween season.Delving into tales of Canada's haunted history, the diverse folklore of its immigrant communities, and the Traditional Stories of Indigenous Peoples, Eerie Whispers asks why Canadians, unlike Americans and the British, are reluctant to embrace this part of our culture. Then, it encourages us to find the bold artistic energy necessary to amplify the country's supernatural voice.

The Assassination Report develops critical and fictional / poetic strategies to revisit the texts of the science fiction 'New Wave' of the 1960s, which infused genre texts with Modernist experimental techniques, such as collage, compression, iteration, and non-linearity. This book explores these fictions from the inside out, inhabiting their techniques to mash-up or remix them, revealing hidden congruences, patterns and structures (of feeling). The main body of the book re-reads and revises texts through cross-pollination: the secret agent as imagined by JG Ballard and Michael Moorcock; the Apollo program re-read through psychedelia; assassination re-imagined as apocalypse; academic essays and institutions reconstituted and re-ordered through the principles of experimental fiction. Key characters - the secret agents 'B' and 'C', the witness and sidekick 'Captain O' - cross time and genre, repeating experiences of war, revolution, incarceration, displacement and death.

Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

I was born in Norfolk in the 1960s.And have lived in Norfolk all my life.I had a fantastic childhood with fabulous parents.And love the countryside around me.I like to think I'm in tune with the countryside and the paranormal,Which is reflected in my poetry.

The dramatic, real-life stories of how God used a private detective to minister to hardened, hopeless criminal offenders.

A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London