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Richard Sharpe Shaver: Some Stones Are Ancient Books
Hardcover
Conceptual ArtIndividual Artists
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9780997645651
Publisher: Christine Burgin/Further Reading
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.20
Language: English
Cult sci-fi author and controversial theorist Richard Sharpe Shaver devoted his life to decoding messages from ancient civilizations left behind in rocks
Science fiction writer Richard Sharpe Shaver believed that rocks were books imprinted with valuable information about such mythical ancient races as the Lemurians and Atlanteans. His controversial stories about an advanced prehistoric civilization and a race of evil beings living at the center of the earth appeared in Amazing Stories and other landmark sci-fi publications of the '40s and '50s.
Richard Sharpe Shaver (1907-75) was an artist and author whose work frequently appeared in 1940s science fiction magazines such as Amazing Stories. He was the center of the Shaver Mystery, a controversy regarding his alleged discovery of a prehistoric civilization, which sparked mass interest and a devoted following that continues to this day.
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