skeptic books

I have a friend that enjoyed reading Josephine Tey's "Daughter of Time". This person needs more skepticism, and he's not interested in non fiction... but he did actually learn a lot from the mystery novel. Any suggestions for a good list of FICTION books that help pass on the skeptic message...

Anyone have a reccomendation on materials regarding Alchemy? A friend of mine asked me to find documenteries regarding Alchemy. Of course I know when he talks about "documenteries" he includes "what the bleep do we know" :rolleyes: But I figured I might suggest some stuff for him anyway and...

Hi all. I've been a long-time reader of the Swift, as well as a big fan of Randi, but this is my first post here at the JREF forums. Anyway,I'm currently writing a book on skepticism for 10-15-year-olds. It would be similar to those "50 Unsolved Mysteries" books that I used to read as a kid...

From Albert Gjedde, Skeptica: It contains a lot of good points.

From Paladin Press. Something like "How to make money from psychic powers, bigfoot, crop circles, ufo's..." It explains how to fake UFO photos, how to cold read, how to make a crop circle. Stuff like that.