Alfred de Grazia — Complete Works Index

Biography

Alfred de Grazia was an American political scientist, publisher, and polymath who spent the second half of his career systematically rebuilding ancient history on catastrophist foundations. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and served on the faculties of several major universities before directing his intellectual energy toward the catastrophist movement.

His pivotal encounter was with Immanuel Velikovsky’s work in the early 1950s. Where most academics dismissed Velikovsky, de Grazia investigated — and became convinced that Velikovsky’s core claim was correct: the solar system had been catastrophically disrupted within historical memory, and ancient myths, religions, and political institutions were shaped by that experience.

In 1966, de Grazia edited The Velikovsky Affair, the first systematic academic defense of Velikovsky against scientific suppression. In the 1980s, he produced the Quantavolution & Catastrophe series — 15 volumes covering cosmology, earth science, myth, psychology, language, and history from a unified catastrophist perspective. His final synthesis, The Iron Age of Mars (2009), incorporated 25 years of subsequent catastrophist research.

De Grazia coined the term quantavolution: sudden, quantum-leap change in nature and human affairs, caused by catastrophic extraterrestrial forces. The series bearing this name is the most ambitious attempt to unify catastrophism across all disciplines into a single coherent framework.

He founded Metron Publications (Princeton, N.J.) to publish his own work when mainstream publishers refused it — a pattern he documented extensively in Cosmic Heretics.

All Works

Quantavolution & Catastrophe Series

Adjacent Volumes

Jno Cook’s Recommendations

Jno Cook (CalendarResearch.net, saturniancosmology.org) cites de Grazia extensively in his annotated bibliography. His specific notes on each recommended work:

Thematic Reading Guide

Start Here

1. Series Introduction & Q-C Test — understand the vocabulary and method
2. The Velikovsky Affair — the historical context and the suppression
3. Cosmic Heretics — the insider story of the catastrophist movement

Cosmology & Solar System Origins

• Solaria Binaria — binary sun hypothesis (Saturn as original star)
• Chaos and Creation — the young Earth / young solar system
• The Divine Succession — the planetary succession from Saturn to Mars

Earth Sciences & Physical Record

• Lately Tortured Earth — the geological record of catastrophe
• The Burning of Troy — Bronze Age physical evidence

Mythology & Ancient History

• The Disastrous Love Affair — Moon and Mars in myth
• God’s Fire — the Exodus as electrical catastrophe
• The Iron Age of Mars — 8th–7th century BCE Mars encounters
• The Divine Succession — gods as real planets

Language & Symbolism

• A Fire Not Blown — sacral electrical roots in Mediterranean languages
• KA — H. Crosthwaite’s mythological-electrical handbook

Human Psychology & Behavior

• Homo Schizo I — human nature as catastrophic adaptation
• Homo Schizo II — behavior, emotion, and the schizoid character

The Academic Suppression

• The Velikovsky Affair — the original suppression (1950–1966)
• Recollections of a Fallen Sky — 1974 academic conference
• Cosmic Heretics — the movement from inside, 1963–1983

Connection to Saturnian Cosmology

De Grazia’s work, especially Solaria Binaria and The Divine Succession, forms the theoretical bridge between Velikovsky’s planetary catastrophism and the full Saturnian Cosmology model developed by David Talbott (The Saturn Myth, 1980) and Wal Thornhill.

Key shared ideas:

• Saturn as Earth’s original central star (the “primordial sun”)
• The polar configuration (all planets aligned on Earth’s north pole)
• The “divine succession” as actual orbital displacements
• Plasma/electrical forces as the mechanism of catastrophe

The Thunderbolts Project (Talbott + Thornhill) is the contemporary heir to the Quantavolution series. The Iron Age of Mars (2009) fully integrates the Talbott-Thornhill Saturnian model into de Grazia’s historical reconstruction.

File Availability Summary

Total collection: ~1.0 million words of full text across 13 volumes

External Links

• Grazian Archive: https://grazian-archive.com
• Quantavolution Series Page: https://grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QuantaSeries.htm
• Cook’s Bibliography: https://saturniancosmology.org/books.php.html
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_de_Grazia

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