Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron | Spencer Kansa

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Wormwood Star is the first ever biography of Marjorie Cameron, star of Kenneth Anger's underground classic Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and wife of Jack Parsons, the rocket scientist and magickal associate of Aleister Crowley.

"Born in Belle Plaine, Iowa, in 1922, Cameron’s uniqueness and talent as a natural born artist was evident to those around her early on in life. During World War 2 she served in the Women’s Navy, and worked in Washington as an aide to the Joint Chiefs Of Staff. But it was after the War that her life really took off, when she met her husband Jack Parsons. By day Parsons was a brilliant rocket scientist, but by night he was Master of the Agape Lodge, a fraternal magickal order, whose head was the most famous magus of the 20th century… Aleister Crowley."

Wormwood Star is written by Spencer Kansa and published by Mandrake of Oxford.

Marjorie Cameron in Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1961)

Emma Watson at the New York premiere of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" 15 November 2010

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The Mongoliad - Neal Stephenson's experiment in 'post-book publishing and storytelling'

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The Mongoliad is an intriguing new venture created by author Neal Stephenson in which he, Greg Bear, Nicole Galland, Mark Teppo and other authors will be telling 'a sort of serialized story' via custom apps on the iPad, iPhone, Kindle and Android. 

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An alpha version is due to be demoed at the SF App Show on Tuesday 25 May, and there are Facebook pages for both the alpha demo event and for The Mongoliad itself.