Then their is the Ultra Modern The Quickening..
source: http://www.csicop.org/sb/9712/baker.html
We've long known that Art Bell, night radio's paranoid propagandist, knows how to rave and rant. What we didn't know was whether or not he could read and write. An organized rumor that he is, indeed, literate comes to us in the form of an alleged "book" titled The Quickening: Today's Trend, Tomorrow's World. The question of Bell's literacy is not fully settled, however, because on the title page we are told there was an editor, one Jennifer L. Osborn, who had a prominent role in this publication. Quickening, unfortunately, was released this year by a firm labeled Paperchase Press of New Orleans, Louisiana. Added suspicion is cast upon Bell's claim to authorship by the presence of Ms. Osborn's name right under Bell's in a very suggestive position. After one dips into the book's pages, however, it becomes crystal clear from the chapter titles, the gloom-and-doom themes, as well as the litany of errors and misinformation -- plus the hysterical and repetitive exaggerations -- that the ideas, if not the words, are, indeed, classic Bell.Just as he does in his nightly radio diatribes, Bell in this word-assembly, is out to terrorize anyone naive enough to read him. Each chapter of this "book" begins with a little "story" whose intent is to frighten one into believing the human race has had it. Although each tale is designed to scare us into calling our Senator, all come off just about as chilling as a Halloween pumpkin.In one story a couple is no longer able to have children because the wife has a venereal disease. In another, a man catches a drug-resistant form of malaria. In others, two terrorists blow up an oil field, two teenagers poison themselves by inhaling upholstery cleaner, and a bunch of German skinheads catch and torch a Turk. Each of these grotesque tales is Bell's way of assuring us that our individual and collective future is going to be pure hell. Even worse, our prophet tells us, is the fact that everything around us today is moving so fast, i.e., "quickening," that none of us Simple Simons is able to keep up with these fast-moving times. This is especially true for simple Art, who apparently never misses a single issue of The Weekly World News and seems to believe every word he reads. "Every aspect of our lives is accelerating and changing at a faster and faster pace," Art tells us; and since he can't keep up, then no one else can either! So there!
