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The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.

In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets—and alien life—beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover planets around other stars—thousands in fact. Now they are closer than ever to unraveling distant twins of the Earth. In this book, Jayawardhana vividly recounts the stories of the scientists and the remarkable breakthroughs that have ushered in this extraordinary age of exploration.

Giant insects! Mutant monsters! Aliens! UFOs! Is this the beginning of the end? The Atomic Age has begun! Fortunately, the agents of the US Science Bureau are on the job. Join our intrepid adventurers as they use guts, brains, and 1950s technology to battle the enemies of tomorrow in… Atomic Tales!Atomic Tales features classic horror tales in the style of the Atomic Age, written by Stephen D. Sullivan and presented in audio format by filmmaker and producer Christopher R. Mihm. These stories are guaranteed to transport you back in time to the halcyon days of the 1950s — and maybe even to ...