Description
Carter, John
Feral House, Venice, California, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. Minor shelf-wear, dust-jacket rubbed at edges with a few small tears. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket.
Jack Parsons was a brilliant scientist whose innovations in solid rocket fuel were responsible for Allied air victories in WWII as well as early advances in space flight. A cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, he was honored by NASA for his accomplishments when they named a moon crater after him. But outside the laboratory, Parsons immersed himself in a shadowy world unknown to his professional colleagues — a world where Parsons practiced occult rituals with his mentor, Aleister Crowley, a self-professed Antichrist. When Parsons befriended L. Ron Hubbard, who later ran off with Parsons’s money and his wife, his life became even more peculiar. Ultimately, his increasingly obsessive experiments — he aimed to create a creature with magical powers — sparked a chemical explosion that killed him.
