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Robert "Bob" J M Rickard is the founder and editor of the UK magazine ''Fortean Times: The Journal of Strange Phenomena'', which debuted in 1973 under its original title ''The News''. The magazine's express purpose is to continue the documentary work of Charles Fort on the strange, anomalous and unexplained. In addition to his editorial role, Rickard has written several books and hundreds of articles on a wide range of Fortean topics. In 1981, he was a founding member of ASSAP and is also the founder of the Charles Fort Institute. ==Biography== Robert J M Rickard was born in "an R&R station for shell-shocked Discovering the books of Charles Fort, in large part through the science-fiction magazine ''Astounding Science Fiction'' ("editor John W. Campbell would encourage his writers - such as Robert A. Heinlein, Charles Harness, Theodore Sturgeon, etc - to expand on Fort's themes") and ''Galaxy'', in which "naturalist Willy Ley wrote such inspiring essays on what we now call cryptozoology."〔 Thus attracted, when he attended an SF convention in Worcester in the early 1970s and obtained "all four of the Ace paperback editions," he writes that he "miss() the rest of the Con" to read them.〔 Rickard describes Fort as: : "an American philosopher and iconoclast who spent 24 years of his life in the bowels of the British Museum Library as it was at that time, in London, and the New York public library in New York, and he collected something like 40 or 50,000 scraps of paper with data on them as he called it, and these were stories that seemed to embarrass the science of the day."〔(Tony Coleby interviews Bob Rickard for 2atoms, February 1998 ). Accessed March 6, 2008〕 In 1973, after encouragement from "Paul Willis (of INFO), Paul Screeton (of ''Ley Hunter'') and Steve Moore (I Ching specialist)," he founded ''The News'' (later renamed ''Fortean Times'') to continue the work of Fort in documenting the strange and unexplained.〔 In 1981, he helped found ASSAP, and in 1998, the Charles Fort Institute, before relinquishing his 28-year role as editor of ''FT'' in 2002 for semi-retirement, in order to "devote more time to enriching the 'apparatus' of forteana by working on projects like the CFI, the legendary ''Encyclopedia Forteana'',〔Working title of the Charles Fort Institute's on-going mammoth endeavour〕 and his own digital picture library ((Signs-and-Wonders ))".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bob Rickard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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