New Lands

New Lands is a book by Charles Fort, first published in 1923, that collects his provocative examinations of astronomical anomalies and challenges to mainstream scientific assumptions. Fort assembles strange reports — from mysterious mirages of islands and continents in the sky to puzzling meteorological and celestial oddities — and uses them to ridicule scientific complacency and to suggest alternative ways of reading the evidence.

The book continues the author’s trademark mix of sceptical wit and imaginative speculation, expanding ideas such as his Super-Sargasso Sea and a world that routinely yields surprising, unexplained phenomena. Though sometimes dismissed as eccentric, New Lands is a key work for readers interested in Fortean literature, anomalous phenomena, and the history of the paranormal.

It sits alongside Fort’s other major works as an early, influential challenge to the culture of scientific certainty; writers and investigators in cryptozoology, anomalistics, and speculative nonfiction have long mined its pages. For those seeking a curious, iconoclastic voice that questions orthodox astronomy and celebrates the strange, New Lands remains an essential, thought-provoking read.