Alien Jim & The Wonders of the World (Alien Jim Series Book 2)

Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Learn more More Like This. Ancient Aliens Debunked Ancient Aliens TV Series Science and mythology - and how they are the same thing. Aliens in Egypt The UFO Files — The book isn't about any "agenda" but, it is an entertaining timeline of all the major events in the modern UFO phenomenon, starting with the great airship sightings in the late nineteenth century.

Jim Marrs, a journalist specializing in conspiracy and paranoia, typically takes facts and then jumps to wild conclusions under the guise of reporting. Feb 29, Malette Poole rated it really liked it. Among the questions asked is why no one else seems to want to ask the same ones. He rarely draws conclusions but does make one wonder if the powers that be consider us too stupid to deal with whatever is happening or what?

Sep 25, Matt McClard rated it it was amazing. Alien Agenda is by far the best book for an overall sweeping look at the UFO phenomena. Jim Marrs does a wonderful job of giving the facts or rumors as the case may be rather than editorializing the issue. Mar 10, J Connery rated it it was amazing.

Lots of pertinent info on the subject. Still questionably far out. Ideas relating the subject matter to the moon landing, the JFK assassination, and religion. Again, Marrs is dry as fuck. Oct 04, Joe Terry rated it it was amazing. One of my all time fav books This book was amazing and got me interested in the ufo field of study.. Jan 04, Susan Plesko rated it it was amazing.

Oct 30, Rich Hoffman rated it it was amazing. I didn't think I'd take this book very serious, but Marrs puts forth some very compelling evidence in this stunning book that will scare even hardened minds. Jul 28, Gatekeeper The rated it it was amazing. Alien Agenda is comprehensive and adequately captivating, considering it was released 20 years ago.

For its length nearly pages , Mr. Marrs did a very sufficient job of avoiding repetitiveness. Worthy of a read, for sure. Dec 15, Jonathan Raab rated it it was amazing. An intense and exhaustive survey of "alien" activity. His conclusion is a bit too kind to some of the more fantastical accounts and interpretations, but I challenge you to find a more readable and comprehensive tome on ufology and close encounters.

May 26, Caroline rated it it was amazing Shelves: Goes into almost every corner of the phenomenon. Definitely a great book! Aug 12, Nadim rated it it was ok. It ain't the aliens with the agenda. Oct 18, Dieter Ryckewaert rated it really liked it. Really enjoyable, makes you think from another perspective. Sep 08, Ronan Conroy rated it liked it. Those who already lean in the direction that a phenomenon of some type is occurring will probably know much of the information here, while those who are skeptical will not only fail to be convinced by this book but will also find much in here that justifies their own skepticism.

The result is a hodgepodge of data lacking a central narrative or key position, with quite a few concepts that are just plain ridiculous and hard to swallow. For example, the theory that the moon is a fake satellite towed into place as a hollow observational base of alien operations. It rings about as true as the idea that the moon rings like a bell when things land on it, and sounds about as hollow as the hollow earth theory that aliens are living inside the earth.

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Much of what was relayed by the remote viewers sounds like something out of HP Lovecraft stories, which have routinely struck me as the work of a man deeply convinced of the ancient alien theory. By the way, the name Marrs is a pretty great name for a guy writing about Mars. Sadly, Marrs passed away August 2nd of this year. Rest in peace, Jim, and forgive me for this less than positive review of your book. Oct 25, Daniel Nguyen rated it really liked it.

I was always into superstitious things, I was always wondering if the life of extraterrestrial beings were real in either our galaxy or the others. What I was hoping to find in this book was both unrealistic and realistic situations that could somewhat give readers like myself that wonderment feeling after we finish. That wonderment feeling will eventually lean either on the believer side or the non-believer side.

Jim Marrs captured the stories through his research that possibly there are actual I was always into superstitious things, I was always wondering if the life of extraterrestrial beings were real in either our galaxy or the others. Jim Marrs captured the stories through his research that possibly there are actual evidence that these beings are alive and living. He also captured as if someone were to lie to the public for publicity.

This book is a non-fiction book that states the majority of Jim Marrs' hard work on discovering if extraterrestrials are either real or just another average person's hoax. In the book Marrs used evidence such as the Government Group to go discover and research UFO's to prove that the government even has little doubt that there are extraterrestrials out there.

He also uses people that saw supernatural occurances at some moments, he explained that a woman named Betty Anderson saw that her street lights went out and saw a curious pink light that pulsated and grew brighter. But Marrs does use people that release false information. He uses a male alien that supposedly lived from to on Earth named Orthon. The significance of this is because aliens were perceived to be non-communicative beings but it said that Orthon came to warn people.

In my mind, I would think they would have pictures right? Overall, I gave this book a four star. The reason why I gave this book a four star is because, well, this book contains A LOT of information.

I think too much for the reader to handle. It did have what I wanted the book to have but it contained too much information for my brain to absorb.

I can't say much because it is a Science Non-Fiction book but it did contain too much information that it eventually overwhelmed me. In the end, I would recommend this book to other superstitious ponderers like myself.

Oct 03, Linda Munro rated it liked it. From the thngs tht make you go hmmmm, to the things that make you say; 'yeah right" this book has it all. Thi things that make you go hmmmm; tthe Roswell Alien crash and the government's cover up, Government Groups established to investigate UFO's and Congressmen that cannnot get the files, and Hitler's war machines.

Things that make you say yeah right: What can I say, the author has conducted a great deal of research, or taken research from UFO investigators. I do nt beleve he madse up any of the information, why bother when there are so many others willing to give you a story. All in all, there are some pretty interesting sections in this book. I suppose one would truly have to read this book on their own in order to evaluate it; but, if you are interested in UFO's this may just be one of those perfect books Jul 17, David Nunez rated it really liked it.

A very interesting read indeed. A fascinating book on E. The obvious problem with a collection of scientific essays about aliens published in is that we do not, as of yet, have any concrete evidence of their existence. Maybe my review is a little too lukewarm, though. It took me more than a month to read this, due both to other reading and my own scientific illiteracy, so some of my indifference is probably just fatigue.

I did learn a lot, and I feel I have a better understanding of the search for extraterrestrial life as it stands now and may stand in the future than I did going in. But there were some genuinely enlightening ones, too. I knew the answer before I bought it - we don't know yet, but the last book I read on the subject was 30 years ago and I trust the editor Jim Al-Khalili, a scientist who has the gift of presenting science to laymen in an incisive mode, full of fascinating details.

There are several chapters, each wrote b I knew the answer before I bought it - we don't know yet, but the last book I read on the subject was 30 years ago and I trust the editor Jim Al-Khalili, a scientist who has the gift of presenting science to laymen in an incisive mode, full of fascinating details. There are several chapters, each wrote by a different scientist tackling the subject from a different angle. I found them intriguing, informative and very readable. Among many questions, a basic one we did not have an answer to one is how the life started.

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The basic ingredients are everywhere in the universe, but even in a quiet pond, the chances of the first organisms to emerge from the primordial soup are so statistically slim that we might be the only ones around, at least for the time being. And even if our civilisation will survive, the future beings will more machine type than humans being, which cannot travel as the science fiction writers dreamt of.

This was a downer but I am getting older and more pliable to disappointments. As was the case with all popular science books I enjoyed before, I will re-read some of the chapters of this very good essay collection. Jun 06, Ailith Twinning rated it it was ok Shelves: Basically, it's just kinda boring. Here, I'll sum up the whole thing for you. If we can find life that is not related to the known life tree on Earth, then life in the universe is more or less certain. If we can find life anywhere but here or Mars life, then in the universe is more or less certain. We should consider more types of life than we can comprehend: We might be looking for alien AI, not bio-life.

The origins of life of Earth are pretty well understood, tho we have not nailed down a specific starting point. It is either the height of hubris to assume there is ETI, or the height of hubris to assume there is not. The very nature of the question is such that only positive confirmation could currently provide anything like knowledge of the question.

Not just the answer, but the question itself. I cannot help but feel most people already know this. And my personal thoughts on the matter, or the thoughts of others I have adopted, are irrelevant to the above criticism of the book. It doesn't matter what you believe, the book provides no light. Not that I expected it to do so; I expected it to be entertaining, and it just wasn't good at that. Absolutely loved this book. I read it at the perfect time as I have been interested about this stuff lately, which always improves a book.

Really thorough and thought provoking. I would definitely recommend. Oh and don't forget the cover. This is one of the best looking books I own. The eery cover and the green tipped page edges give it a true alien feel! Life on Earth seems to have started pretty soon after our planet was formed the Earth is 4. So, perhaps life forms relatively easily, with a pretty big canvas on which to do so. What does the search for extra-terrestrial life tell us about what it is to be human? About our understanding of our place on Earth, in time, in the Universe?

Well this has changed my opinion on Aliens, I always subscribed to the theory that it was arrogant to assume that in a universe as large as the one we live in that we are the only planet that harbors life. Say there are billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, suppose life's origin needs a specific sequence of ten critical precise chemical reactions an underestimate and each one has a probability of occurring in the habitability window of, say, one in a hundred then the combined probability f Well this has changed my opinion on Aliens, I always subscribed to the theory that it was arrogant to assume that in a universe as large as the one we live in that we are the only planet that harbors life.

Say there are billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, suppose life's origin needs a specific sequence of ten critical precise chemical reactions an underestimate and each one has a probability of occurring in the habitability window of, say, one in a hundred then the combined probability for all ten steps to occur is one in a hundred billion billion, that would leave the odds of life in the Milky Way pretty low. However that argument is countered by the zero one infinity theory where these are the only three numbers that have any importance, we are currently at the 'one' phase and are searching for number two which then unlocks the potential of infinity.

There are some fun chapters that take a look at aliens in written fiction and Hollywood there is also a rather amusing rant on Prometheus, the writer of that particular chapter has a major problem with that film and there is an interesting chapter that takes a look at Octopuses as a way to try to imagine just how vastly different to us alien life could potentially be.

The only thing that stopped me from giving 5 stars was the fact that I was bogged down by the final third of the book, it begins to get a little repetitive and certain chapters seem to forget who their target audience was and I found that they got a little too complicated maybe I was just burnt out by the book When I re-read this I will take a lot more time with it and just read a chapter every now and again rather than finishing the whole book in 3 days, there was a hell of a lot of info to take in all in one go.

I would definitely recommend this though. Sep 27, Rachel Kalanadi rated it liked it Shelves: There was an awful lot of repetition in this already slim collection of essays. A lot of the basics, for example, get repeated e. However, each individual essay was pretty good. I didn't care for some of the organization, however. Some pop culture essays - like aliens in media movies, science fiction and ufology - got popped in.

I think they should have been grouped There was an awful lot of repetition in this already slim collection of essays. I think they should have been grouped together into an Aliens in Popular Media section, because the jump from scientific to fiction to scientific again was odd. The only essay that I thought was useless was the brief history of UFO events. What's the point of that? There was no interesting commentary or interpretation.

I read all this stuff in more detail on Wikipedia when I was a child. An interesting collection of essays on all things alien. This book jumps around somewhat from movie critiques to the chemistry of life and it is a shame that the essays are not unified with a narrative, but on the other hand it is a good structure for dipping in and out of. One interesting aspect of having lots of authors is that you can see the uncertainty and disputes between the scientists and the contradictions between their different viewpoints - e.

One of the downside An interesting collection of essays on all things alien.

One of the downsides is that there is a fair amount of repetition eg on the importance or otherwise of liquid water. FWIW - I've come out of reading this book with two conclusions. Secondly, scientists are dreadful at predicting the future see the predictions of past scientists in the book that have not come true and the strong assertions of the authors that are, frankly, highly unlikely. Dec 02, Jaclyn rated it it was amazing. It consists of a series of essays from scientists about the search for extraterrestrial life. There were quite a few interesting questions and possible explanations about how life began, where life may be able to form and thrive, what other lifeforms may look like, etc.

There was also a lot of discussion about possible techniques for finding life on other planets checking the chemical compositions of planets, searching for radio signals, etc. Sometimes it felt a bit repetitive but it was always fascinating. I loved hearing about this topic from scientists as opposed to conspiracy theorists. It gave me a much better understanding about the search for extraterrestrial life.

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The variety of topics addressed, and the experts of all types which address them, is fantastic, and the book has almost a narrative feel, to a point, with its topics leading well from one to another, growing and expanding as they go. The trouble, as always, with 'pop science' and I'm speaking as a layman myself is the shallowness with which every topic must be explored and described. Detail has to be avoided, lest we become quickly overwhelmed and frustrated. And so pop-science is a double-edged sword: This book, nevertheless, does a fantastic job of toeing that line; providing a decent taste of a wide range of ideas, theories, and mechanics, without ever baffling us.

I hugely appreciate that. And who doesn't appreciate the aesthetic of this charming volume, with its green leaf and flip-book alien visitor? My favourite part was the rant about why Prometheus is the worst movie ever. This book is a collection of writings from various researchers speculating about issues related to extraterrestrial life and intelligence. Unsurprisingly some of the essays included in the book are better than others. For the most part, however, I didn't read anything here that offered any new insights beyond what I already knew about the subject.

The book might be more useful to someone with less background in the subject than I had. Is there life out there? At last a book that gives the real answer: