Another book-more sober and written by a science journalist:
Strange Angel:The Otherworldly Life of Jack Parsons
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This bit from Amazon is intriguing:
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Science journalist Pendle (Times of London, Financial Times) follows Parsons on his journey through both science and the occult as he explored the connections between the two at a time when science fiction crashed into science fact (and when the practitioners of one often dabbled in the other.
Right now, it appears cryonics is an area where science fiction is 'gatecrashing' science, because facts are not yet in support of such an enterprise--and the bioethical implications are sobering--except to aspiring elitists and superpeople who see us peasants as energy donors.
My uncle, before he died summed it up: We are all biodegradable. I am not scared shitless of dying. There are things I still want to do. Death is just a place I have not been to yet.'
Will go by my uncle's words any day. He was a union man and worked in the trades his whole life and if anyone had suggested he be an energy donor, he'd have laughed pointed at a toilet or porta john and said he donated his energy there.