Comments on: Remembering Willy Ley

By: Allen Hazen

Allen Hazen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:26:23 +0000

I read (and loved) several of his books when I was young– both the exotic zoology ones (which weren’t all cryptozoology: some of the essays in them were about known weirdness, some [e.g. the salamander essay in "Sal & Oth Won," which is about olms and Kamerrer's scientific fraud] about the history of science, some even about strange plants) and some on space travel. They certainly inspired my interest in some of the topics, and I’m sure they inspired many, many otherr readers with an interest in science. Craters on the moon tend to be named for figures in the history of astronomy [e.g. Copernicus, Ptolemy]– even though Ley doesn’t seem to have been an important original researcher in the field, I’m glad they named one for him!

By: korollocke

korollocke — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:39:41 +0000

reminds me of the old war that time forgot comics.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:45:54 +0000

Great illustration. Thanks!

By: wdsasquatch

wdsasquatch — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:49:53 +0000

Interesting looking book.

By: captiannemo

captiannemo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:28:45 +0000

Thanks for the great article Loren, this is why I read this site daily.