Charles Hoy Fort

Charles Hoy Fort (Charles Fort)
Fort tī 1920
Chhut-sì	Charles Hoy Fort 1874 nî 8 goe̍h 6 ji̍t(1874-08-06) Bíkok Albany, New York
Koè-sin	1932 nî 5 goe̍h 3 ji̍t (57 hòe) Bíkok New York The Bronx
Chit-gia̍p	Ī-siông hiān-siōng kiù-khàm-tsiá

Charles Hoy Fort (ing-gú: Charles H. Fort; 1874-nî 8-gue̍h 6-ji̍t－1932-nî 5-gue̍h 3-ji̍t) sī tsi̍t-ê tsuan-bûn gián-kiù ī-siông hiān-siōng ê Bí-kok tsok-ka hām gián-kiù-guân. Su̍t-gú "Fortean" hām "Forteana" ū-tang-sî-á iōng teh biâu-su̍t kok-tsióng tsit-luī hiān-siōng. Fort ê tsheh bē kah bē-bái, pīng-tshiánn koh-teh ìn-suat tang-tiong. Fort ê tsok-phín kè-sio̍k kik-lē tio̍h tsông-pài-tsiá, in kiò ka-kī tsò "Forteans", pīng-tshiánn íng-hióng kho-huàn sió-suat ê bóo-mih hong-bīn.

Fort siu-tsi̍p ê kho-ha̍k huán-siông hiān-siōng, pau-kuat "Tsiù-tshàm tsi su" (The Book of the Damned, 1919), i-kî huâi-gî thāi-tōo hām su-sióng lâi-guân íng-hióng tsiânn-tsē kho-huàn tsok-ka. "Fortean" hiān-siōng hó-tshin-tshiūnn teh thiau-tsiàn kong-jīn kho-ha̍k tì-sik kài-hān sū-kiānn, Fortean Times (1973-nî tshòng-li̍p kiò-tsò "The News" m̄-kū tī 1976-nî kái-miâ) tuì tsit-ê hiān-siōng tsìn-hîng tiâu-tsa.

Sing-pîng

Fort tī 1874-nî tshut-sì teh New York tsiu Albany, Fort ióng-iú Hôlân-âng ê hiat-thóng. I-ê lāu-pē sī tsi̍t-ê tsa̍p-huè-siong, mā sī tsi̍t-ê tsuan-tsè tsu-gi-tsiá, teh Fort iah-bē tshut-pán ê tsū-tsuān "Tsiânn-tsē pōo-hūn (Many Parts)" lāi-té, Fort kóng-tio̍h i hōo i-ê lāu-pē khóo-to̍k-kuè ê tāi-tsì. Fort ê tuān-kì tsok-tsiá Damon Knight piáu-sī, itui kuân-ui ê bô sìn-jīm khai-síteh gín-á sî-tsūn siūtio̍h ê tuì-thāi. Fort tsá-nî tō puê-ióng tshut kiông-lia̍t ê to̍k-li̍p ì-sik.

Tsò tsi̍t-ê liân-khin ê sîng-liân lâng, Fort siūnn-beh tsiânn-tsòtsi̍t-miâ phok-bu̍t ha̍k-ka, siu-tsi̍p lê-á-khak, khòng-bu̍t-tsit kah tsiáu-luī. Sui-bóng Fory hông biâu-su̍t tsò hò-kî hām tshong-bîng, m̄-koh i pīng m̄ sī tsi̍t-ê hó ha̍k-sing. Tsò tsi̍t-ê tsū-ha̍k-tsiá, Fort tuì sè-kài ê hong-hù tì-sik tsú-iàu sī in-uī i kóng-huàn ê kò-jîn ua̍t-to̍k.

Tī 18 huè ê sî-tsūn, Fort lī-khui New York khai-sí sè-kài sûn-huê lú-hîng, í-sú "kā tsi̍t-kuá tsu-kim tâu-ji̍p king-giām gîn-hâng". Fort iû-li̍k Bí-kok se-pōo, Scotland hām England. it-ti̍t-kàu teh Hui-tsiu lâm-pōo phuà-pēnn uî-tsí. Teh Fort tńg--khì kàu tshù ê sî-tsūn, hōo i uì sè-hàn tio̍h si̍k-sāi ê Anna Filing lâi tsiàu-kòo. In nn̄g-ê tī 1896-nî 10-gue̍h 26-ji̍t teh Sìng-kong-huē kàu-tn̂g kiat-hun. Teh tsit-kui-nî lâi, tsit-tuì sin-hun hu-hū teh Bronx sing-ua̍h teh sòng-hiong tsi-tiong; m̄-koh Fort tsik tshì-tôo uī pò-tsuá kah tsa̍p-tsì siá kòo-sū bôo-sing. Tī 1906-nî, Fort khai-sí siu-tsi̍p ī-siông tsîng-hóng ê kì-lio̍k.

Tsham-khó bûn-hiàn

Fort published five books during his lifetime, including one novel. All five are available on-line (see External links section below).

• Many Parts (1901, unpublished autobiography)
• The Outcast Manufacturers (1909; B.W. Dodge), novel
• The Book of the Damned (1919), Reprinted by Ace Books, K-156, c. 1962, and H-24, c. 1966; Prometheus Books, 1999, paperback, 310 pages, ISBN 1-57392-683-3.
• New Lands (1923), Reprinted by Ace Books, H-74, 1968, and later printings, mass market paperback. ISBN 0-7221-3627-7
• Lo! (1931), Reprinted by Ace Books, K-217, c. 1965, and later printings, mass market paperback. ISBN 1-870870-89-1
• Wild Talents (1932), Reprinted by Ace Books, H-88, c. 1968, and later printings, mass market paperback. ISBN 1-870870-29-8

Posthumous editions:

• The Books of Charles Fort (1941; Holt), intro by Tiffany Thayer, index by Henry Schlanger.
• Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover Publications, New York City, 1998, hardcover, ISBN 0-486-23094-5 (with introduction by Damon Knight)
• The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort, Tarcher, New York City, 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-1-58542-641-6 (with introduction by Jim Steinmeyer)

Ên-sin ua̍t-to̍k

• Gardner, Martin has a chapter on Charles Fort in his Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science 1957; Dover; ISBN 0-486-20394-8.
• Knight, Damon, Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (1970) is a dated but valuable biographical resource, detailing Fort's early life, his pre-'Fortean' period and also provides chapters on the Fortean society and brief studies of Fort's work in relation to Immanuel Velikovsky; intro by R. Buckminster Fuller.
• Magin, Ulrich, Der Ritt auf dem Kometen. Über Charles Fort is similar to Knight's book, in German language, and contains more detailed chapters on Fort's philosophy.
• Pauwels, Louis has an entire chapter on Fort, "The Vanished Civilizations", in The Morning of the Magicians.
• Pauwels, Louis, The Morning of the Magicians (Stein & Day, 1964), pp. 91 et seq. Reprinted by Destiny in 2008, ISBN 1-59477-231-2.
• Bennett, Colin (2002). Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort (paperback). Head Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-900486-20-0. 
• Carroll, Robert Todd. "Fort, Charles (1874–1932)" (pp. 148–150 in The Skeptic's Dictionary, Robert Todd Carroll, John Wiley & Sons, 2003; ISBN 0-471-27242-6)
• Clark, Jerome. "The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis in the Early UFO Age" (pp. 122–140 in UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge, David M. Jacobs, editor; University Press of Kansas, 2000; ISBN 0-7006-1032-4)
• Clark, Jerome. The UFO Book, Visible Ink: 1998.
• Dash, Mike. "Charles Fort and a Man Named Dreiser." in Fortean Times no. 51 (Winter 1988–1989), pp. 40–48.
• Kidd, Ian James. "Who Was Charles Fort?" in Fortean Times no. 216 (Dec 2006), pp. 54–55.
• Kidd, Ian James. "Holding the Fort: how science fiction preserved the name of Charles Fort" in Matrix no. 180 (Aug/Sept 2006), pp. 24–25.
• Lippard, Jim. "Charles Fort" (pp. 277–280 in Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, Gordon M. Stein, editor; Prometheus Books, 1996; ISBN 1-57392-021-5)
• Skinner, Doug, "Tiffany Thayer", Fortean Times, June 2005.
• Steinmeyer, Jim (2008). Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural (hardback). Heinemann. pp. 352 pages. ISBN 978-0-434-01629-7. 
• Wilson, Colin. Mysteries, Putnam, ISBN 0-399-12246-X
• Ludwigsen, Will. "We Were Wonder Scouts" in Asimov's Science Fiction, Aug 2011

Tsham-ua̍t

• Su̍t-gú
• Ī-siông hiān-siōng
• A. B. Frost

Guā-pōo liân-kiat

• International Fortean Organization (Eng-gí)
• The Charles Fort Institute (Eng-gí)
• Fort tī Project Gutenberg ê chok-phín (Eng-gí)
• Charles Hoy Fort tī Internet Archive ê chok-phín (Eng-gí)
• Works by Charles Hoy Fort at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) (Eng-gí)
• Mr. X, Consulting Resologist – contains links to Fort's works (Eng-gí)
• Dunning, Brian (October 13, 2015). "Skeptoid #488: Who Was Charles Fort?". Skeptoid.  (Eng-gí)