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Originally Posted by jerryleejr
I am trying to find the Mission Earth series and Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. They are for sale of course for the Kindle and secure Mobi. Any Ideas?
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Just out of curiousity, why?
Hubbard was a pulp stalwart back in the day, did some nice Arabian Nights style fantasy for Unknown Worlds, and was a regular contributor to Astounding. He stopped writing fiction when he contrived Dianetics, and spent his time running the Dianetics operation, before accepting a buyout and retiring to a yacht in the Mediterranean, while the Dianetics operation morphed into Scientology.
Hubbard's return to fiction with Battlefield Earth was a quandry. Folks I knew couldn't figure out whether it was an unpublished manuscript lying in a desk drawer for 30 years that finally saw the light of day, or he simply hadn't learned anything new about writing since he put down the pen.
I passed on the Mission: Earth series, though that had it's question marks as well. Hubbard died part way through the series, and there was a suggestion that the late A. E. Van Vogt ghostwrote the last five or so. That would make sense: Van Vogt and Hubbard were contemporaries, and Van Vogt was an early associate of Hubbard's in Dianetics, before starting his own spin-off called Dianology.
It's possible that there are depths and quality to Hubbard's later work I'm simply not seeing, and I'm curious what you find worthy in them.
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Dennis