Strange Angel

"Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy it." "This is your book if you want to start reading up on the space age. Highly recommended." This amazing book is set in a more brightly coloured universe than most scientific lives are. "An engaging treatment of a time when the modern world moved at the same speed as crazed mania." "A spellbinding story of a man with eccentricities that went well beyond a fascination with rocketry." "Strange Angel could be a hybrid sired by Gravity's Rainbow out of Foucault's Pendulum. Explosively fascinating." "�A� rambunctiously funny, deliriously weird, and incredibly true story of a space-science pioneer turned lustful witch." -- author of CITY OF QUARTZ "Mike Davis" "Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn. You don''t have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy it." "A fascinating glimpse, a story that would make a compelling work of fiction if it weren''t so astonishingly true." "Elegantly written. Pendle, with his graceful, measured prose, skilfully steers us through the quagmire of Parson''s personal life." PRAISE FOR STRANGE ANGEL "Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn . . . 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." - The Seattle Times

"Pasadena's famous Craftsman mansions disgorge their ghosts in this rambunctiously funny, deliriously weird, and incredibly true story of a space-science pioneer turned lustful witch." - Mike Davis, author of City of Quatrz

"As a history of space travel, Strange Angel is a cornerstone. This is your book if you want to start reading up on the space age. Highly recommended."- Ray Bradbury "[A] rambunctiously funny, deliriously weird, and incredibly true story of a space-science pioneer turned lustful witch." --author of CITY OF QUARTZ "Mike Davis " "A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles." --starred review "Booklist " PRAISE FOR STRANGE ANGEL "Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn . . . 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." - The Seattle Times "Pasadena's famous Craftsman mansions disgorge their ghosts in this rambunctiously funny, deliriously weird, and incredibly true story of a space-science pioneer turned lustful witch." - Mike Davis, author of City of Quatrz "As a history of space travel, Strange Angel is a cornerstone. This is your book if you want to start reading up on the space age. Highly recommended."- Ray Bradbury PRAISE FOR" STRANGE ANGEL" "Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn . . . 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." - The Seattle Times "Pasadena's famous Craftsman mansions disgorge their ghosts in this rambunctiously funny, deliriously weird, and incredibly true story of a space-science pioneer turned lustful witch." - Mike Davis, author of City of Quatrz "As a history of space travel, Strange Angel is a cornerstone. This is your book if you want to start reading up on the space age. Highly recommended."- Ray Bradbury PRAISE FOR" STRANGE ANGEL"

"Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn . . . 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." - The Seattle Times

"Pasadena's famous Craftsman mansions disgorge their ghosts in this rambunctiously funny, deliriously weird, and incredibly true story of a space-science pioneer turned lustful witch." - Mike Davis, author of City of Quatrz

"As a history of space travel, Strange Angel is a cornerstone. This is your book if you want to start reading up on the space age. Highly recommended."- Ray Bradbury PRAISE FOR"STRANGE ANGEL"

"Pendle weaves a fascinating yarn . . . 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." - The Seattle Times

"Pasadena's famous Craftsman mansions disgorge their ghosts in this rambunctiously funny, deliriously weird, and incredibly true story of a space-science pioneer turned lustful witch." - Mike Davis, author of City of Quatrz

"As a history of space travel, Strange Angel is a cornerstone. This is your book if you want to start reading up on the space age. Highly recommended."- Ray Bradbury