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Strange Angel - The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (Paperback, New Ed)
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Strange Angel - The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (Paperback, New Ed)
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'Forget geek stereotypes. Parsons' life seems straight out of a
Hollywood thriller ... Pendle's book leaves us with a taste of
genius's energy and fragility' Los Angeles Magazine 'You couldn't
make it up' Physics World 'As a history of space travel, STRANGE
ANGEL is a cornerstone ... Highly recommended' Ray Bradbury
BRILLIANT ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN EXPLOSION screamed the
front-page headline of the Los Angeles Times on 18 June 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
Alesteir Crowley. George Pendle tells Parsons' extraordinary life
story for the first time. Fuelled 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
- aged thirty-seven. In Strange Angel, Pendle recovers a
fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences of genius.
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