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Originally Posted by Larla
I think it does need some correcting. He, in fact, considered himself as part of the Campbell crowd and if he can be believed, Campbell did also. Read his lengthy introduction in Battlefield Earth.
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He WAS part of the Campbell crowd. Campbell fell for his Scientology hooey.
What I meant was as a writer, he was more in line with the old-style Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers/Lensman/Star Wars 'space opera' than the science fiction Campbell pushed for. From what I have read so far, there is little to no 'science' in Hubbard's science fiction.
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Perhaps his other SF works have rightfully earned him a "crappy SF writer" title but Battlefield Earth does not fall into that category. As Jon said, perhaps it should have ended a couple of hundred pages earlier but it is worth reading before dismissing L. Ron Hubbard as a SF author.
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Who knows. That may be so. But based on my previous experiences with his work, I'm not going to take a run at that thousand page football on the off chance that
this time it will be different.
It is just as likely that you could read Hubbard's other work and find all of it meets the same level of quality that you found in Battlefield Earth.