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Originally Posted by HarryT
Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying it's a good series. I do think, however, that there's a tendency to make Hubbard's SF writing out to be worse than it is due to his crackpot beliefs (or, in an alternate viewpoint, extremely clever business) in Scientology. One of Hubbard's books in particular, "Battlefield Earth" (not to be confused with "Mission Earth"), I think is great Space Opera (although it was made into a quite stunningly awful film).
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One contemporary review I saw of BATTLEFIELD EARTH said something like: "...Hubbard hasn't written any SF since the 30's and apparently he thinks no one else has..."
I think it was in Asimov's.
Much like Gore Vidal's Kalki, I never had any interesting in sampling his wares, for much the same meta reasons as why I have no interest in Go Set a Watchman. Some books are simply too blatant for my taste.
