L. Ron Hubbard bibliography

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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was an American pulp fiction author. He wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, adventure fiction, aviation, travel, mystery, western, and romance. His United States publisher and distributor is Galaxy Press.[1] He is perhaps best known for his self-help book, the #1 New York Times bestseller Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (first published in 1950), and as the founder of the Church of Scientology.

L. Ron Hubbard was a prolific writer; according to the church, his written teachings make up approximately 500,000 pages and 3,000 recorded lectures, totaling about 65 million words. He also produced a hundred films and 500 short stories and novels.[2]

Early writings

Although he was best known for his pulp fantasy and science fiction, Hubbard also wrote adventure, aviation, travel, mystery, western and romance. He wrote under his own name and as Kurt von Rachen and René Lafayette, his principal science fiction/fantasy pseudonyms. His other pen names included "Winchester Remington Colt" (rather obviously reserved for Westerns), Lt Jonathan Daly, Capt Charles Gordon, Bernard Hubbel, Michael Keith, Legionnaire 148, Legionnaire 14830, Ken Martin, Scott Morgan or Lt Scott Morgan, Barry Randolph and Capt Humbert Reynolds."[3]

Hubbard's first short story, "Tah", was published in the Literary Supplement of The Hatchet, George Washington University's campus paper, in February 1932.[3] In February 1934, the pulp magazine Thrilling Adventure was the first to publish one of Hubbard's short stories. Over the next six years, more than 140 of his short stories appeared in similar magazines devoted to high adventure and mystery.

Hubbard began publishing Science Fiction with the magazine Astounding in 1938, and over the next decade he was a prolific contributor to both Astounding and the fantasy fiction magazine Unknown. However, despite efforts by later supporters to assign to Hubbard a central role in the creation of modern science fiction, he was not a member of the small group of prime movers—L Sprague de Camp, Robert A Heinlein and Isaac Asimov—in the genre.[3]

Dianetics and Scientology

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Hubbard's first major financial success came with the publication of Dianetics in 1950, after which he departed the field of science fiction writing for many years. In 1951, he refashioned the material of Dianetics into Scientology. At this time, he established his first publishing organization, devoted exclusively to his own works, and used it (and its later incarnations) to publish his own "spiritual technology," as well as his ideas about business administration, literacy, and drug rehabilitation.[4]

Hubbard returned to the field of Science Fiction writing in 1982 with the publication of Battlefield Earth, followed by the Mission Earth "dekalogy," a ten-volume series, most of which was published posthumously.

Output and reception

Hubbard produced more than 250 published works of fiction in his writing career. At his peak, he wrote “over 100,000 words a month.” He is remembered for his “prodigious output" and the "amazing speed at which he could produce copy.” He used a special electric IBM typewriter with extra keys for common words like ‘and’, ‘the’, and ‘but.’[5]

Scientology's publishing arm has translated his work into seventy-two languages. His fiction and non-fiction books have sold millions of copies,[6] and Hubbard holds four Guinness World Records for “Most Published Works by One Author”, “Most Audio Books Published for One Author”, “Most Translated Author in the World”, and "Most Translated Author, Same Book" (The Way to Happiness).[7]

Criticism of Hubbard's fiction is mixed. Georges T. Dodds, columnist for WARP, newsletter/fanzine of the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy association writes, "much of [Hubbard's] science fiction and fantasy is quite entertaining, and in most cases as good or better than much of the pulp literature of the era."[8] A reviewer for Publishers Weekly emphasizes "Hubbard's ability to pack an epic into relatively few pages -- this is indeed golden science fiction from the Golden Age".[9] The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction maintains that science fiction "was clearly not Hubbard's forte, and most of his work in the genre reads as tendentious or laboured or both. As a writer of fantasy, however, [Hubbard] wrote with an occasionally pixillated fervour that is still pleasing, and sometimes reminiscent of the screwball comedies popular in the 1930s cinema."[3]

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says about Hubbard's last foray into the genre of science fiction: "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1982), [is] an enormously long space opera composed in an idiom that seemed embarrassingly archaic. This was followed by the Mission Earth 'dekalogy,' a ten-volume sequence whose farcical over-egging of a seriously thin narrative thread fails to disguise a tale that would have been more at home in the dawn of the Pulp magazines, though its length would not have been tolerated."[3]

Controversy

While nineteen of Hubbard's books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, in 1990 the Los Angeles Times printed an article that referenced claims made by employees of Bridge Publications, then publisher of Hubbard's books, that employees would be instructed to buy copies of Hubbard's books if sales were low to manufacture bestsellers. In the same piece, Adam Clymer of the New York Times responded that the paper did not know who copies of books had been sold to, and that the paper had "uncovered no instances in which vast quantities of books were being sold to single individuals."[10]

Hollywood connection

Hubbard is credited with writing the story on which The Secret of Treasure Island, a 1938 Columbia Pictures movie serial, was based,[11] as well as the story on which one episode of the TV show Tales of Wells Fargo (1957) was based.[12]

Best-known fiction

This is a partial list of Hubbard's published works of fiction. Included are Fear, To the Stars, Final Blackout and Typewriter in the Sky, which were published in 1940 and reprinted numerous times. To the Stars was published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1950.[13] Hubbard had a total of 235 works of fiction published.[14] Reprinted titles, reprinted by publisher Galaxy Press, include The Iron Duke, Hostage to Death, Cargo of Coffins, Brass Keys to Murder, and Under the Black Ensign.

War-ravaged Europe is the setting of Final Blackout, which Pau Walker described as "a bleak, harsh novel of hopeless conflict and an idealistic lieutenant who fights it to its ironic end." A similar grim irony pervades Death's Deputy, in which an immortal, voided to punish humans according to the whims of his race, seeks in vain his own death. The short novels Typewriter in the Sky and Fear are horrific fantasies which many critics consider to be classics of the science fiction's golden age. Fear, which relates the existence of a man who alternates between psychosis and sanity, is considered among Hubbard's finest works. Hubbard's last book of this period, Return to Tomorrow, is a "space opera" which anticipates future science fiction themes in its story about intergalactic traders from whom one month equals a century of Earth time. Hubbard's stories written under the pseudonym of Rene Lafayette and collected in Ole Doc Methuselah (1970) relate the tales of a medical doctor who traverses time and space while opposing criminals and enemies for his profession.[15]

Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth is a 1982 science fiction novel written by Hubbard. He composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz. Initially titled Man, the Endangered Species, Battlefield Earth was first published in 1982 by St. Martin's Press, though all subsequent reprintings have been by Church of Scientology publishing companies Bridge Publications and Galaxy Press. Written in the style of the pulp fiction era (during which Hubbard began his writing career), the novel is over 750 pages in hardcover and 1000+ in paperback. It was Hubbard's first openly science fiction novel since his pulp magazine days of the 1940s, and it was promoted as Hubbard's "return" to science fiction after a long hiatus.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction described the book as a "rather good, fast-paced, often fascinating SF adventure yarn." The fantasy author Neil Gaiman wrote, "For value for money I have to recommend L. Ron Hubbard's massive Battlefield Earth - over 1000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens, noble humans. Is mankind an endangered species? Will handsome and heroic Jonny Goodboy Tyler win Earth back from the nine-foot-high Psychlos? A tribute to the days of Pulp, I found it un-put-downable. And all for £2.95". Frederik Pohl said, "I read 'Battlefield Earth' straight through in one sitting although it's immense... I was fascinated by it." Kevin J. Anderson says, "Battlefield Earth is like a 12-hour 'Indiana Jones' marathon. Non-stop and fast-paced. Every chapter has a big bang-up adventure." Publishers Weekly said about the novel, "This has everything: suspense, pathos, politics, war, humor, diplomacy and intergalactic finance..." Science fiction author A. E. van Vogt stated, "Wonderful adventure ... great characters ... a masterpiece." but later admitted that he had not actually read it due to its size.

Battlefield Earth went to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list and also those of the Los Angeles Times, TIME, United Press International, Associated Press, B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks. According to Hubbard's literary agents, Author Services Inc., by June 1983 the book had sold 150,000 copies and earned $1.5 million.

The book was adapted for film in 2000, and retains a cult status, despite bombing at the box office and being critically panned.

To the Stars

To the Stars was first published in book format in 1954 under the title Return to Tomorrow, and was first published in hardcover in 1975 under the same title. The book was generally positively received, and garnered a 2001 nomination for a "Retro" Hugo Award for Best Novella. Publishers Weekly gave the book a positive review, calling it one of Hubbard's "finest works", and Alan Cheuse highlighted the work on National Public Radio's program All Things Considered as a top literature holiday pick.

Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin described the 1954 edition as "a fast-paced and grim adventure . . . just short of absurdity, but interesting nevertheless."[16] Anthony Boucher panned the novel, calling it "a surprisingly routine and plotless space opera."[17]

Buckskin Brigades

Buckskin Brigades was Hubbard's first hard-covered book, and his first published novel. Hubbard incorporates historical background from the Blackfeet tribe into the book. The book was re-released by Bridge Publications in a 1987 edition. The book was published in an audio book format by Bridge Publications and read by actor Bruce Boxleitner, who was hired by Church of Spiritual Technology subsidiary Author Services Inc. to read Hubbard's books on tape. The New York Times stated that, "Mr. Hubbard has reversed a time-honored formula and has given a thriller to which, at the end of every chapter or so, another paleface bites the dust . . . (has) an enthusiasm, even a freshness and sparkle, decidedly rare in this type of romance."[18]

Some sources state that as a young man, Hubbard became a blood brother to the Piegan Blackfeet Native American tribe while living in Montana,[19][20] though this claim is disputed.[21] Hubbard incorporates historical background from the Blackfeet tribe into the book.[19]

Death's Deputy

Death's Deputy was first published in book form, in 1948, by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. The novel originally appeared in the February 1940 issue of the magazine Unknown.

Fear

Fear is a psychological thriller-horror novella by Hubbard first appearing in Unknown Fantasy Fiction in July 1940. Stephen King called the book, "A classic tale of creeping, surreal menace and horror."[22] This is possibly Hubbard's most critically acclaimed novel, receiving positive reviews from the likes of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.

Final Blackout

Final Blackout was first published in serialized format in 1940 in the science fiction magazine Astounding Science Fiction. It was published in book form in 1948 by The Hadley Publishing Co. Author Services Inc. published a hardcover edition of the book in 1988, and in 1989 the Church of Scientology-affiliated organization Bridge Publications announced that film director Christopher Cain had signed a contract to write and direct a movie version based on the book. Final Blackout and Fear are often cited by critics as the best examples of Hubbard's pulp fiction works. Robert Heinlein called the book “as perfect a piece of Science Fiction as has ever been written."[22] Chuck Moss of Daily News of Los Angeles called the book "extremely good science fiction". The book has been included in the curriculum of a science-fiction writing class at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Karl Edward Wagner cited Final Blackout as one of the thirteen best science-fiction horror novels.

Kingslayer

Kingslayer is a collection of science fiction short stories by Hubbard. It was first published in 1949 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,200 copies. The title story first appeared in this collection. The other stories had previously appeared in the magazine Astounding.

Ole Doc Methuselah

Ole Doc Methuselah, published in 1970, is a collection of science fiction short stories by Hubbard originally published in Astounding Science Fiction from 1947 to 1950.

Slaves of Sleep

Slaves of Sleep was first published in book form, in 1948, by Shasta Publishers, and originally appeared in 1939 in an issue of the magazine Unknown.

Typewriter in the Sky

Typewriter in the Sky was well received. The Philadelphia Inquirer called it "swashbuckling fun", and John Clute and John Grant in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy characterized the work as the best of Hubbard's stories from the Arabian-fantasy theme.

Mission Earth

Mission Earth is an epic science fiction novel, split into ten volumes of unequal length. Each volume was a New York Times bestseller.[23] The ten volumes of the Mission Earth series, all bar the first of which were published posthumously, comprise The Invaders Plan (1985), Black Genesis: Fortress of Evil, The Enemy Within, An Alien Affair, Fortune Of Fear, Death Quest (1986), Voyage Of Vengeance, Disaster, Villainy Victorious, and The Doomed Planet (1987).[24]

Contests for writers and illustrators

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In 1983, Hubbard started the "Writers Award Contest", a competition aimed at discovering, and eventually publishing, deserving amateur and aspiring writers. The L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest was launched in 1988. Winning illustrators illustrate a winning story from the Writers of the Future contest. The program is administered by Author Services.[25]

Table of works

Non-fiction articles

Date Title Publication
January 1932 "Tailwind Willies" The Sportsman Pilot
November 1932 "Sans Power" The Sportsman Pilot
June 1933 "Washington's Langley Day" The Sportsman Pilot
November 1933 "Music With Your Navigation" The Sportsman Pilot
July 1934 "No Matter What You Call It, It Just Grins" The Sportsman Pilot
September 1934 "XC" The Sportsman Pilot
September 15, 1934 "San Diego Fair Meet" The Sportsman Pilot
December 1934 "West Indies Whys And Whithers" The Sportsman Pilot
January 1935 "Won't You Sit Down?" The Sportsman Pilot
February 1935 "Mahomet Come To The Mountain" The Sportsman Pilot
August 15, 1936 "Test Pilots, 1936" The Sportsman Pilot
July 1935 "Story Vitality" Writer's Review
July 1935 "Circulate" The Author & Journalist
January 1936 "Magic Out of a Hat" Writer's Digest
June 1937 "Suspense" The Author & Journalist
May 1941 "It Bears Telling" Explorer's Club
January 1949 "Steps In The Right Direction" Writers' Markets & Methods

Pulp fiction

Date Title Publication [26]
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Green God" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Yellow Loot" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hurtling Wings" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Phantom Patrol" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Trail of the Red Diamonds" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Red Dragon" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Flame City" Thrilling Detective
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Destiny's Drum" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Brass Keys to Murder" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Cossack" Mystery Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "False Cargo" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Squad that Never Came Back" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Drowned City" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Man-Killers of the Air" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hostage to Death" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hell's Legionnaire" Mystery Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Under the Black Ensign" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Yukon Madness" Mystery Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Contraband Crate" Sky Birds
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Buckley Plays a Hunch" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Medals for Mahoney" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Sky Devil" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "He Walked to War" Adventure
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Forbidden Gold" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Wind-Gone-Mad" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Black Sultan" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Five Mex for a Million" & "The Adventure of 'X" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Barbarians" Dime Adventure
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Machine Gun 21,000" Dynamic Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Starch and Stripes" Dime Adventure
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Sky-Crasher" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Trick Soldier" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Red Sand" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Blow Torch Murder" Detective Fiction Weekly
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hurricane!" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Price of a Hat" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Spy Killer" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "They Killed Him Dead" Detective Fiction Weekly
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Loot of the Shanung" Smashing Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Escape for Three" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Mad Dog Murder" Detective Fiction Weekly
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Grease Spot" Thrilling Detective
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Sleepy McGee" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Don't Rush Me" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Headhunters" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Mr. Tidwell Gunner" Adventure
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Baron of Coyote River" All Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Sky Birds Dare!" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Golden Hell" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Mr. Luck" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Test Pilot" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Black Towers to Danger" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Flaming Arrows" Mystery Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Tomb of the Ten Thousand Dead" Thrilling Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Deep-Sea Diver" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Big Cats" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "River Driver" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The No-Gun Gunhawk" Western Aces
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Mine Inspector" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Shooter" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "While Bugles" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Fifty-fifty O'Brian" Top Notch
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Steeplejack" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Flying Trapeze" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Mountaineer" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Bold Dare All" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Cattle King for a Day" All Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Battling Pilot" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "A Lesson in Lightning" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "All Frontiers Are Jealous" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Crate Killer" War Birds
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Dive Bomber" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Nine Lives" Argosy
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "I Was Buried Alive!" Personal Adventure Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Reign of the Gila Monster" Western Aces
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Red Death Over China" War Birds
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Gunman's Tally" All Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Devil With Wings" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Highly Hazardous - Pilots!" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Tinhorn's Daughter" Western Romances
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Six-Gun Caballero" Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Under the Die-Hard Brand" Western Aces
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Highly Hazardous - Deep Sea Diver" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Boomerang Bomber" Sky Aces
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Toughest Ranger" Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hot Lead Payoff" Part 1 of 4 Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Dangerous Dimension" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "King of the Gunmen" Western Yarns
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hot Lead Payoff" Part 2 of 4 Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hot Lead Payoff" Part 3 of 4 Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hot Lead Payoff" Part 4 of 4 Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "When Gilhooly Was in Flower" Romantic Range
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Ghost-Town Gun-Ghost" Western Action
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Boss of the Lazy B" Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Tramp" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Come and Get It" Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Tramp" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Buckskin Brigades" Complete Northwest
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Lieutenant Takes The Sky" / "Branded Outlaw" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Death Waits at Sundown" Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Tramp" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Silent Pards" Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Empty Saddles" Adventure Yarns
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Ruin at Rio Piedras" Western Story
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Trouble On His Wings" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Wings over Ethiopia" Air Action
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Hurricane's Roar" Adventure Novels and Short Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Falcon Killer" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Ultimate Adventure" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Danger In The Dark" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Slaves of Sleep" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Ghoul" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Ranch That No One Would Buy" Western Yarns
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Professor Was A Thief" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "If I Where You" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Small Boss of Nunaloha" South Sea Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Deaths Deputy" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Final Blackout" part 1 of 3 Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Indigestible Triton" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Final Blackout" part 2 of 3 Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "On Blazing Wings" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Final Blackout" part 3 of 3 Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Inky Odds" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Shadows From Boothill" Wild West Weekly
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Idealist" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Iron Duke" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Fear" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Sabotage In The Sky" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Kilkenny Cats" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Devil's Rescue" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "One Was Stubborn" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Typewriter in the Sky [Part 1]" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Typewriter in the Sky [Part 2]" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Traitor" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Crossroads" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Mutineers" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Case of the Friendly Corpse" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Borrowed Glory" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Last Drop" Astonishing Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Invaders" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Rebels" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "He Didn't Like Cats" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Strain" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Room" Unknown
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Slaver" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Space Can" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Beast" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Great Secret" Science Fiction Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Chee-Chalker" Five Novels
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The End is Not Yet" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The End is Not Yet" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The End is Not Yet" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Old Doc Methuselah" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Expensive Slaves" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Her Majesty's Aberration" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Obsolete Weapon" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Magic Quirt" The Rio Kid
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "When Shadows Fall" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Great Air Monopoly" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Stacked Bullets" Famous Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "240,000 Miles Straight Up" Thrilling Wonder Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Forbidden Voyage" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Gunman!" Famous Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Magnificent Failure" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Plague!" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Gunner From Gehenna" Giant Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Gun Boss of Tumbleweed" Thrilling Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Battle of the Wizards" Fantasy Book
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Conroy Diary" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Incredible Destination" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "A Sound Investment" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Unwilling Hero" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "A Matter of Matter" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Johnny, the Town Tamer" Famous Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Beyond the Black Nebula" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Blood on His Spurs" Thrilling Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Guns of Mark Jardine" Western Action
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Automagic Horse" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Planet Makers" Thrilling Wonder Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Buckskin Brigades" Triple Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Emperor of the Universe" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Man For Breakfast" Texas Rangers
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting".Winter 1950 "The Kingslayer" Two Complete Science-Adventure Books
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "A Can of Vacuum" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Stranger in Town" Famous Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Ole Mother Methuselah" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Last Admiral" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Beyond All Weapons" Super Science Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Hoss Tamer" Thrilling Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "To the Stars" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Devil's Manhunt" Famous Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "To the Stars" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Greed" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Dianetics: Evolution of a Science" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The No-Gun Man" Thrilling Western
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Vengeance Is Mine!" Real Western Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Battling Bolto" Thrilling Wonder Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Final Enemy" Super Science Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Analytical Mind" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "The Masters of Sleep" Fantastic Adventures
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Tough Old Man" Startling Stories
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "Dianomitry" Astounding Science Fiction
Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". "River Driver" Max Brand's Western

Fiction novels

  1. Under the Black Ensign (1935)
  2. Buckskin Brigades (1937), Template:ISBN
  3. Slaves of Sleep (1939)
  4. Ultimate Adventure, the (1939)
  5. Final Blackout (1940), Template:ISBN
  6. Indigestible Triton, the (1940)
  7. The Automagic Horse (1940) published (1994)
  8. The End Is Not Yet (1947) (serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, no book publication reported[27]
  9. Death's Deputy (1948)
  10. The Kingslayer (1949)
  11. To the Stars (1950)
  12. The Masters of Sleep (1950)
  13. Fear (1951), Template:ISBN
  14. Typewriter in the Sky (1951), Template:ISBN
  15. Return to Tomorrow (1954)
  16. The Ultimate Adventure (1970)
  17. Ole Doc Methuselah (1953), Template:ISBN
  18. Seven Steps to the Arbiter (1975)
  19. Revolt in the Stars (1979 - Unpublished)[28]
  20. Battlefield Earth (1982), Template:ISBN
  21. Mission Earth 1. The Invaders Plan (1985)
  22. Mission Earth 2. Black Genesis (1986)
  23. Mission Earth 3.The Enemy Within (1986)
  24. Mission Earth 4. An Alien Affair (1986)
  25. Mission Earth 5. Fortune of Fear (1986)
  26. Mission Earth 6. Death Quest (1986)
  27. Mission Earth 7. Voyage of Vengeance (1987)
  28. Mission Earth 8. Disaster (1987)
  29. Mission Earth 9. Villainy Victorious (1987)
  30. Mission Earth 10. The Doomed Planet (1987)

Short story collections

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Hubbard's novella "The Kingslayer" was reprinted in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1950 after its original publication in a 1949 Hubbard collection

Beginning in the 1990s Author Services began publishing volumes of Hubbard's short fiction organized by genre (Adventure, Mystery/Suspense, Science Fiction, Western, etc.) At least 42 volumes were published. The following information comes from the Library of Congress's Online Catalog, with supplemental information from www.bookfinder.com

Adventure Stories[29]

  • V1-Five mex for a million; Price for a hat; The cossack
  • V2-The black sultan; The barbarians—Red Sand
  • V3-The trail of the red diamonds; Golden hell; Tomb of the ten thousand dead
  • V4-Starch and stripes; Trick soldier; Mr. Tidwell, gunner --
  • V5-Tah; Grounded; Yellow loot; Red death over China --
  • V6-The squad that never came back; The adventure of "X"; Escape for three --
  • V7-The sky devil; He walked to war; The crate killer --
  • V8-Yukon madness; Medals for Mahoney; Wings over Ethiopia --
  • V9-Catapult courage; Raiders of the beam; Boomerang bomber --
  • V10-The green god; Machine gun 21,000; Fifty-Fifty O’Brien
  • V11-Pearl pirate; The drowned city; The small boss of Nunaloha

Fantasy Stories[30]

  • V1-The crossroads; The devil's rescue; The room
  • V2-The dangerous dimension; The professor was a thief; The last drop; He didn't like cats
  • V3-Danger in the Dark; Borrowed Glory; If I Were You

Hell Job Series

  • V1-Sleepy McGee; Don't rush me; Mr. Luck[31]
  • V2-Test pilot; Deep-sea diver; The big cats[32]
  • V3-River driver; The ethnologist; Mine inspector[33]
  • V4-The shooter; Steeplejack; Flying trapeze[34]
  • V5-Mountaineer; A lesson in lightning; Nine lives[35]

Mystery/Suspense Stories[36]

  • V1-Calling squad cars!; The blow torch murder; The grease spot; Killer's law --
  • V2-Dead men kill; Mouthpiece; The mad dog murder
  • V3-The death flyer; They killed him dead; The slickers

Ole Doc Methuselah Stories[37]

  • V1-Ole Doc Methuselah; Her Majesty's aberration; The expensive slaves; The great air monopoly
  • V2-Plague!; A sound investment; Ole Mother Methuselah.

Science Fiction Stories[38]

  • V1-240,000 miles straight up; The were-human; He found God
  • V2-The obsolete weapon; The planet makers; Beyond all weapons
  • V3-Battle of wizards; A can of vacuum; Tough old man
  • V4-One was stubborn; A matter of matter; Greed
  • V5-STRAIN; THE SLAVER; SPACE CAN; FINAL ENEMY
  • V6-The great secret; The automagic horse; Battling Bolto

Western Stories[39]

  • V1-Hoss tamer; Stranger in town; The ghost town gun-ghost
  • V2-The toughest ranger; The bad one; Marriage for spite; Horse and horse
  • V3-Tinhorn's daughter; Johnny, the town tamer
  • V4-The baron of Coyote River; Man for breakfast; Blood on his spurs
  • V5-The neck scarf; The no-gun gunhawk; Devil's manhunt --
  • V6-Maybe because--!; "Tooby"; Plans for the boy; Under the Diehard brand
  • V7-Canteens!; Ride 'em, cowboy; The ranch that no one would buy
  • V8-When Gilhooly was in flower; Boss of the Lazy B; Ruin at Rio Piedras
  • V9-Come and get it; Death waits at sundown; Cattle king for a day
  • V10-Leaducation; Reign of the Gila monster; Gun boss of the Tumbleweed
  • V11-King of the gunmen; Silent paards; Shadows from Boot Hill; Gunman!--
  • V12-The magic quirt; Stacked bullets; The Gunner from Gehenna

Dianetics and Scientology

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Adaptations by other authors

References

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  15. ↑ Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Daniel G. Marowski, Roger Matuz, and Robyn V. Young. Vol. 43. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. p203-208.
  16. ↑ "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1954, p.121
  17. ↑ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, November 1954, p.99.
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  26. ↑ L. Ron Hubbard Pulps And Collectables - That site contains a very comprehensive and complete pulp bibliography of L.R.H.
  27. ↑ L. Ron Hubbard at ISFDB
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External links

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