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by Brad Steiger Anomalist Books • 5150 Broadway #108 • San Antonio, TX 78209 Website: www.anomalistbooks.com Foreword Copyright 2007 • 224 pages, $14.00 • ISBN: 1-933665-19-X Reviewed by Brent Raynes Once again, the most prolific and popular author we know, the legendary Brad Steiger has had another one of his greatest and most worthy classics reprinted. Originally published back in 1978, by G.P.Putnam’s Sons, Worlds Before Our Own was a pioneering exploration of ancient global civilizations and so-called “erratics”—“man-made” artifacts that turned up in unexpected places like primordial geological strata. Such data certainly suggested a radical departure from the time tables of human evolution accepted by our mainstream scientists, breaking radical new ground. In his 2007 Foreword, Brad recalls just how radical it became! One reviewer even called for Brad’s book to be burned! The initial book reviews, Brad noted, “were the most scathing that I have ever received.” Brad had led the pack some fifteen years before Michael Cremo’s Forbidden Archaeology and others, and in a sense he was kind of like Barbara Mandrel in that song where she was country when country wasn’t cool! But gradually attitudes have, over the years, been shifting toward a more open-minded and positive consideration of such things, of such evidence, and though originally published nearly three decades ago, Worlds Before Our Own is still a very thought-provoking book written by one of the best qualified investigative writers to tackle such exciting and challenging historical controversies and reported “erratics.” |