George Pendle is a highly promotable young journalist who writes for The Times, amongst others 'George Pendle's superbly detailed and addictively readable book makes the reader fall in love with these young men's energy and enthusiasm, and the blazing trail that Parsons left behind him as he finally fell to earth' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A case of truth being stranger than fiction in all its glory...the whole mix is fascinating. Parsons' struggle to achieve a working rocket would make a good story in their own right, but add in the science fiction, add in the strange religion and characters like Hubbard - and finally, throw into the mix Parsons' horrendous death in an apparently accidental explosion at home...it's a cracker, that rarest of things a popular science book that's a page-turner too' Popular Science.co.uk 'George Pendle, with his graceful, measured prose, describes a handsome man of charm and intellect...The author skilfully steers us through the quagmire of Parson's personal life to place him on the pedestal that he deserves, so that we may admire his remarkable legacy to modern rocket science' OBSERVER 'Readable and engrossing' LITERARY REVIEW
George Pendle writes about science for The Times and the Financial Times, among other publications. He lives in New York City.
Pendle's superbly detailed and addictively readable book makes the
reader fall in love with these young men's energy and enthusiasm,
and the blazing trail that Parsons left behind him as he finally
fell to earth
*DAILY TELEGRAPH*
Readable and engrossing
*LITERARY REVIEW*
Elegantly written ... Pendle with his graceful, measured prose...
skilfully steers us through the quagmire of Parson's personal life
to place him on the pedestal that he deserves, so that we may
admire his remarkable legacy to modern rocket science
*OBSERVER*
You couldn't make it up
*PHYSICS WORLD*
A case of truth being stranger than fiction in all its glory. The
whole mix is fascinating. Parsons' struggle to achieve a working
rocket would make a good story in its own right, but add in the
science fiction, add in the strange religion and characters like
Hubbard - and finally, throw into the mix Parsons' horrendous death
in an apparently accidental explosion at home ... It's a cracker,
that rarest of things a popular science book that's a page turner
too
*POPULARSCIENCE.CO.UK*
Fascinating ... we are introduced to a surreal 1930s world where
dreams of space flight were inspired by popular science fiction
*FOCUS*
Entertaining... intriguing
*CHEMISTRY WORLD*
As a history of space travel, STRANGE ANGEL is a cornerstone ...
Highly recommended
*Ray Bradbury*
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*
Fascinating ... he deftly and seemingly effortlessly leads his
readers through the technical aspects of Parsons' work. You don't
have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy it
*SEATTLE TIMES*
A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s
and 1930s Los Angeles
*BOOKLIST*
An engaging treatment of a time when the modern world moved at the
same speed as crazed mania
*THE ONION*
Offers glimpses not only of the history of a lab, a science and a
group of extraordinary people but also of America's rapidly
changing political and cultural assumptions ... Parsons' story is
an intriguing one, full of contradictions that seem
quintessentially of their time
*NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW*
Spellbinding ... STRANGE ANGEL has a strong narrative drive and
reads like a novel - except that novels need to be plausible,
whereas the life of Jack Parsons, poet, magician and rocket
pioneer, had no such constraint
*AMERICAN SCIENTIST*
STRANGE ANGEL could be a hybrid sired by GRAVITY'S RAINBOW out of
FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM. Explosively fascinating
*GLOBE & MAIL*
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