Strange Angel

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Publication Year:
2006

ISBN-13: 9780547545363

<DIV><B>Now a CBS All Access series: &ldquo;A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles&rdquo; (<I>Booklist</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> The <I>Los Angeles Times</I> headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city&rsquo;s occult scene.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program. But Parsons&rsquo;s wild imagination also led him into a world of incantations and orgiastic rituals&mdash;if he could make rocketry a reality, why not black magic?<BR /> &#160;<BR /> George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility. Peopled with such formidable real-life figures as Howard Hughes, Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein, <I>Strange Angel</I> explores the unruly consequences of genius.<BR /><BR /> The basis for a new miniseries created by Mark Heyman and produced by Ridley Scott, this biography &ldquo;vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. when science fiction crashed into science fact.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. [It] would make a compelling work of fiction if it weren&rsquo;t so astonishingly true&rdquo; (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>).<BR /> &#160;</DIV>