Joshua Blu Buhs, <i>Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers</i> Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-0-226-83148-1. $35.00 (cloth).

This is a fantastic book.I will never think the same again, particularly about science fiction and its conscious attempt to see and control the 'motor of history' in the weird.Think to New Worlds is about the reception history of Charles Hoyes Fort (1874-1932) and the 'damned'; that is, that which has been excluded from modern thought and science.Fort authored one novel (The Outcast Manufacturers, 1909), and four books of anomalies drawn mostly from newspapers and journals (The Book