Special Report: Jad Smith on Alfred Bester

Special Guests: Jad Smith

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Professor Jad Smith about his book, Alfred Bester, part of the University of Illinois Press series, Masters of Science Fiction.

Bester, a master craftsman of prose, is best known for his seminal sci-fi books The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man.

Links:
Buy Alfred Bester by Jad Smith
Buy The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Buy The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Buy Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Tackling the “Unfilmable” ‘The Stars My Destination by Matt Goldberg

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Music:
"Blue Jaunte" - Pistonsbeneath
"The Stars Our Destination" - Stereolab
"Tiger! Tiger!" - The Lord Weird Slough Feg
"Blue Jaunte" - The Amberjacks

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Episode 117: Battlefield Earth

Special Guest: Roger Christian & J.D. Shapiro

We conclude our two-part look at Scientology and the movies with Battlefield Earth. We debate the veracity that it's "The Worst Film Ever Made" and discuss the making of the film with the film's director, Academy Award winner Roger Christian, and original screenwriter J.D. Shapiro.

Links:
Buy Battlefield Earth on DVD
Buy L. Ron Hubbard's Battlfield Earth
Buy L. Ron Hubbard's Space Jazz
Buy The Road to Freedom on CD
Read Roger Christian's How dare they call my film a turkey
Read J.D. Shairo's I penned the suckiest movie ever - sorry!
Visit JD Shapiro's website

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Music:
Songs used this episode include
"Disclaimer" - A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
"March of the Psychlos" - L. Ron Hubbard
"Battlefield Earth Theme" - Elia Cmiral
"Terl, The Security Director" - L. Ron Hubbard
"Windsplitter" - L. Ron Hubbard
"The Road to Freedom" - L. Ron Hubbard & Friends

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Episode 116: Mock Up on Mu

Special Guests: Craig Baldwin & Adam Parfrey

In the first of our two-part series on Scientology in Film, we look at Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu, a story of sex magick, science fiction, and technology.

We discuss Jack Parsons, one of the "characters" in Mock Up with Adam Parfrey of Feral House, the publishers of Sex & Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons. We also discuss Peter Alexander's The Profit, a re-telling of Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard's life, and compare it with Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master.

Links:
Buy Mock Up on Mu on DVD
Buy Lawrence Wright's Going Clear
Read the "rebuttal" site
Listen to The Projection Booth episode on Kenneth Anger
Visit the Cameron-Parsons Foundation
Visit Other Cinema
Visit Feral House Press
Buy Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron by Spenser Kansa
Buy Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by Jack Carter
Buy Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
Read The Marvel: A Biography of Jack Parsons by R.S. Carbonneau
Visit the official Church of Scientology website

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Watch The Profit by Peter N. Alexander