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Originally Posted by HarryT
I enjoyed "Battlefield Earth". "Mission Earth" is just awful, and Hubbard most likely had little input into it himself. Hubbard may have had some wierd religious views, but don't forget that long before that he was a perfectly competent SF author. Not a "great" author, but a competent one, certainly.
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Like a lot of people, I am pretty sure Hubbard's "weird view" of religion was that inventing one would rope in a captive book buying audience. A crazy idea that sold a lot of really awful books, and kept them in print when they should have been 3000 book vanity press runs.