Sex And Rockets by John Carter

Sex And Rockets by John Carter

In his short 37 years, John Whiteside Jack Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life.
By day, Parsons' unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that helped the Allies win World War I and NASA send spacecraft to the moon. Co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corporation, a lunar crater was named after Parsons.
By night, Parsons called himself The Antichrist when he performed Aleister Crowley's Thelemic rituals to create a new sort of human being that would finally destroy Christianity.
In a Pasadena mansion, the dark, handsome Parsons hosted soirees for the emerging literature of science fiction, visited by writers such as Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and none other than L. Ron Hubbard, who later founded the Church of Scientology. With Hubbard playing his Scribe, Parsons enacted dark Babalon rituals to help foment a new occult age. Jack Parsons died suddenly in a huge, mysterious explosion that even today cannot be definitively explained. Was it murder? Suicide? Or just an accident?
Feral House's paperback edition adds new photographs and an Afterword about Parsons' Black Pilgrimage. One of the inspirations for hit television series, Strange Angels.

Carter, John: - John Carter was born in north Wiltshire in 1952. He has always had a fascination with humorous illustrations, possibly stemming from early visits to the dentist and looking through Punch Magazine. A great admirer of the illustrators, Edward Lear and George Cruikshank, John has developed his own style over the years. In this first collection of Absolute Stuff 'n' Nonsense, John has created a cast of imaginary characters poking fun at everyday life and events through rhyme and illustration. John continues to write and draw, dividing his time between Wiltshire and the Limousin region of France.

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ISBN 13	9780922915972
ISBN 10	0922915970
Title	Sex And Rockets
Author	John Carter
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Feral House,U.S.
Year published	2005-04-21
Number of pages	254
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