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3162543Strange Angelhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/strange-angel-9780547545363/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2315534/0621f805-1155-4271-a89f-b088f7dd6ca0.jpg?v=638426589624970000211274MXNHoughton Mifflin HarcourtInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Now a CBS All Access series: A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles (<em>Booklist</em>).</strong></p><p>The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> 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 citys occult scene.</p><p>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 Parsonss wild imagination also led him into a world of incantations and orgiastic ritualsif he could make rocketry a reality, why not black magic?</p><p>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, <em>Strange Angel</em> explores the unruly consequences of genius.</p><p>The basis for a new miniseries created by Mark Heyman and produced by Ridley Scott, this biography vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time . . . when science fiction crashed into science fact. . . . [It] would make a compelling work of fiction if it werent so astonishingly true (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>).</p>...3100441Strange Angel211274https://www.gandhi.com.mx/strange-angel-9780547545363/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2315534/0621f805-1155-4271-a89f-b088f7dd6ca0.jpg?v=638426589624970000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20069780547545363_W3siaWQiOiJjYTBkZTA0Ni1iZWVkLTRhZWYtOWQ3ZS1mNDczMzdiN2VmOTAiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI3NCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjYzLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIxMSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDQtMjRUMDI6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780547545363_<p><strong>Now a CBS All Access series: A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles (<em>Booklist</em>).</strong></p><p>The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> 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 citys occult scene.</p><p>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 Parsonss wild imagination also led him into a world of incantations and orgiastic ritualsif he could make rocketry a reality, why not black magic?</p><p>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, <em>Strange Angel</em> explores the unruly consequences of genius.</p><p>The basis for a new miniseries created by Mark Heyman and produced by Ridley Scott, this biography vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time . . . when science fiction crashed into science fact. . . . It would make a compelling work of fiction if it werent so astonishingly true (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>).</p>...(*_*)9780547545363_<p><strong>Now a CBS All Access series: A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles (<em>Booklist</em>).</strong></p><p>The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> 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 citys occult scene.</p><p>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 Parsonss wild imagination also led him into a world of incantations and orgiastic ritualsif he could make rocketry a reality, why not black magic?</p><p>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, <em>Strange Angel</em> explores the unruly consequences of genius.</p><p>The basis for a new miniseries created by Mark Heyman and produced by Ridley Scott, this biography vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time . . . when science fiction crashed into science fact. . . . [It] would make a compelling work of fiction if it werent so astonishingly true (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>).</p>...9780547545363_Houghton Mifflin Harcourtlibro_electonico_261f8f1e-410e-388b-a9b1-06a3de55c8e0_9780547545363;9780547545363_9780547545363George PendleInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-fa420420-f20e-48f8-a803-57c1a2a63984.epub2006-02-06T00:00:00+00:00Houghton Mifflin Harcourt