Paranoid and delusional crap. I used to read stuff like this for fun, but now it just pisses me off. ( )

[Originally published in EST magazine, 1994]

This is an anthology of alternative points of view, descriptions of reality at odds with the world portrayed in the mainstream media. What you get are paranoid rants, conspiracy theories, and tales of strange cults; strangely, given Jim Keith's willingness to acknowledge Holocaust revisionism, racial correlation to IQ, and whether or not homosexuality is a pathology as relevant topics, nothing as potentially controversial as these is included. The most likely to offend is an article hinting about a Jewish campaign to help get Clinton elected; that this is so deeply inoffensive is typical of the book.

Articles on Jim Jones, Jim Morrison's death and the evidence that AIDS is militarily manufactured present little that will be new to anyone who has read basic conspiracy literature.

On the other hand, the testaments from people who allege that mind control and surveillance devices have been implanted in their skulls are genuinely frightening, and an article on the occult background to the JFK killing fascinated me. British and Irish readers may find the interview with the I.R.A. to be rather naive, but it's good to see evidence of US encouragement of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait being reprinted.

In its attempts to subvert and divert the reader's reality tunnel, it's largely successful, much like [Adam Parfrey's] Apocalypse Culture, which could perhaps be seen as a companion volume. However, the really hardened disinformation addicts may find some of it a little passé and tame; despite Feral House's willingness to bait the politically correct, this is one mind-tunnel this collection does little to challenge. ( )