Editorial

It is probably fair to say that without Erich von Däniken, Fortean Times would not have found the receptive audience it did when launching in 1973. While UFOs, earth mysteries and the like were thrivi

W hen Erich von Däniken died in Interlaken, Switzerland, at the age of 90 on 10 January, I was offline for the weekend. My parents had come to visit their grandson after a major snowstorm had delayed

Chariots of the Gods (see pp28-35) came out when I was a young teenager, and like many others I was impressed by Erich von Däniken’s bestseller. It popularised the idea of ancient aliens for a mass au

Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the darkly exuberant world of The Tyrant Philosophers

I found Ben Timberlake’s article [FT465:38-41] about seeing gnome-like entities through a military night-vision sight rather interesting. Ben puts forward a theory about spores from fungi being a cont

Authorial intelligence versus artificial intelligence: an ongoing palaver. We would rather think as little as we can about the possibilities of both; but it seems irresponsible to ignore the intellect