Jet Propulsion Laboratory rocket scientist and Crowley protégé Jack Parsons ...whut. Somehow, I just never thought to connect British occultism and the early days of JPL! ...I think something in my head just broke. Although now I can't get out of my mind images of Gaiman's Morpheus visiting JPL and being Rather Angry.
Ah, right, The Big Meow. It was, hmm, not helped by the instalment publication model and the several-year break halfway through. The characters return reasonably intact from On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service etc, and there is at least one cute garden party Hollywood scene. The city is lovingly crafted, as Duane is well capable of doing. But the plot hammers a bit too much at a favourite theme of Duane's: the Lone Power (whichever universe it may be) comes to take out the favoured city, and the lone wizard/small group stand against incalculable odds...It's familiar ground compared to Stealing the Elf-King's Roses, which also uses an alt-LA. Read if you're a Duane completist.
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Somehow, I just never thought to connect British occultism and the early days of JPL! ...I think something in my head just broke. Although now I can't get out of my mind images of Gaiman's Morpheus visiting JPL and being Rather Angry.
Ah, right, The Big Meow. It was, hmm, not helped by the instalment publication model and the several-year break halfway through. The characters return reasonably intact from On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service etc, and there is at least one cute garden party Hollywood scene. The city is lovingly crafted, as Duane is well capable of doing. But the plot hammers a bit too much at a favourite theme of Duane's: the Lone Power (whichever universe it may be) comes to take out the favoured city, and the lone wizard/small group stand against incalculable odds...It's familiar ground compared to Stealing the Elf-King's Roses, which also uses an alt-LA. Read if you're a Duane completist.