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Brilliant Rocket Scientist Killed in Explosion screamed the front-page headline of the Los Angeles Times on June 18, 1952. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer whose work had helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was at first mourned as a tragically young victim of mishandled chemicals. But as reporters dug deeper a shocking story emerged-Parsons had been performing occult rites and summoning spirits as a follower of Aleister Crowley-and he was promptly written off as an embarrassment to science.

George Pendle tells Parsons's extraordinary life story for the first time. Fueled from childhood by dreams of space flight, Parsons was a crucial innovator during rocketry's birth. But his visionary imagination also led him into the occult community thriving in 1930s Los Angeles, and when fantasy's pull became stronger than reality, he lost both his work and his wife. Parsons was just emerging from his personal underworld when he died at age thirty-seven. In Strange Angel, Pendle recovers a fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences of genius.

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"Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy it."

"This is your book if you want to start reading up on the space age. Highly recommended."

This amazing book is set in a more brightly coloured universe than most scientific lives are.

"An engaging treatment of a time when the modern world moved at the same speed as crazed mania."

"A spellbinding story of a man with eccentricities that went well beyond a fascination with rocketry."

"Strange Angel could be a hybrid sired by Gravity's Rainbow out of Foucault's Pendulum. Explosively fascinating."

"ƯA¨ rambunctiously funny, deliriously weird, and incredibly true story of a space-science pioneer turned lustful witch." -- author of CITY OF QUARTZ "Mike Davis"

"Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn. You don''t have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy it."

"A fascinating glimpse, a story that would make a compelling work of fiction if it weren''t so astonishingly true."

"Elegantly written. Pendle, with his graceful, measured prose, skilfully steers us through the quagmire of Parson''s personal life."
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The weird and wonderful life of John Whiteside Parsons - a pioneering rocket scientist who also delved into the occult

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  • PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 015100997X
  • ISBN 13 9780151009978
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages350
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