Volume I: Evidence. The Broken Record.
Signed, inscribed & numbered first edition — pre-order closes 31 October 2026.
Mammoth teeth lie one hundred twenty metres down on the Atlantic shelf. The Channeled Scabland was carved in days, not ages, when glacial Lake Missoula let go at ten times the flow of every river alive today. Across Mesopotamia and Mexico and Australia alike, nearly seven cultures in ten remember a great flood.
Each fragment alone can be filed away - geology keeps one, archaeology another, mythology none of them. Placed side by side, they make the shape the disciplines have kept apart for a century: evidence that the Earth's history is not the slow, steady record we were taught, and that the academy has been hiding it in plain sight.
Volume I lays the broken record on the table - sediment, spin, field, sea, culture, archaeology - and asks the question the rest of the series answers: how many times has it happened before?
About this edition
- Signed and personally inscribed by author Craig Stone
- Numbered first edition - printed only for pre-orders; never reprinted in this form.
- 6×9 paperback, premium white stock, dozens of full-colour figures, maps and illustrations.
- 280 pages.
Timing
Pre-orders close 31 October 2026. Signed copies ship by late November - before the standard edition goes live on Amazon on 1 December at $44. Pre-ordering is the only way to get a copy signed, inscribed and numbered
"The catastrophist book that files its own falsification scaffold as an appendix. It asks what Velikovsky asked, with the evidentiary discipline he lacked and the cross-disciplinary reach the academy structurally forbids."*
"...a hypothetical book that took Flem-Ath's question, ran it through Frickel's sociology of science, and defended it with an Alvarez-style constraint register. Nothing on the shelf currently occupies that cell - which is both its differentiation and its exposure: it will be judged by both camps and fully believed by neither."*
* Qwen3.8-Flash-Next solicited review. Prompt: "How would you describe The Catastrophist Investigation relative to other catastrophist works?"