Fifteen SF&F Books by L. Ron Hubbard
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Overview: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 – 1986), often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. Hubbard established his career as a writer with science fiction and fantasy novels, including the novel Battlefield Earth, which was adapted into a feature film in 2000. Starting in the 1950s, Hubbard created a system called Dianetics, which is a wide-ranging set of doctrines and practices that became the foundation of the religious movement Scientology.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
A Matter of Matter
Chuck Lambert is taken advantage of by an unsavory real estate swindler of a galactic economy that sells unwary customers like him a planet where they can’t sit down, because there is something the matter with its matter. But even though swindled, Chuck may just end up getting the last laugh. Also includes: "The Conroy Diary," "The Planet Makers" and "The Obsolete Weapon."
A Very Strange Trip (with Dave Wolverton)
While transporting a contraband Russian time machine and developmental weaponry, Private Everett Dumphee finds himself cast into new settings when the device suddenly activates. What follows are fantastic high-tech experiences that might be called the ultimate off-road adventure. For the determined Dumphee – narrowly escaping with his life and three beautiful women – it is not necessarily a matter of will he make his destination, but when. These four vivid characters trek through this fun and fast-moving journey like there’s no tomorrow. Wherever that may be. "A wild, high-tech ride through time. Read it to have a rollicking good time." —Brian Herbert
Beyond All Weapons
Firstin Guide is not a man to be reckoned with. Bilged out of the Space Academy at fourteen for one too many duels, raised in the lawless camps of Mars’ southern ice cap and cast aside by his family, Firstin’s experiences have made him resourceful, respected and feared. But it’s just that brute strength of character which convinces a handful of Martian colonists to follow him as he leads a risky venture into space, escaping the tyrannical Earth government that has all but slaughtered them.
The small band secures a spaceship that uses an innovative new fuel and, by the grace of the stars, finds a liveable planet. But the men of the new colony led by Firsten also thirst for revenge which drives them to return to Earth and exact retribution despite dire warnings against it. Also includes: "Strain" AND "The Invaders"
Final Blackout
Europe has been ravaged by thirty years of war, entire nations in the throes of economic decay and at the mercy of terrorists. Across this post-apocalyptic landscape marches one extraordinary soldier and his band of brothers. He is the Lieutenant, a hardened military strategist, and a charismatic leader of men. But unseen forces of tyranny are at work, and for this hero at the crossroads of history, it is time to undertake one stunning act of courage.
Greed
Far in the future exist two Earth empires, separated by a weapon-projected wall of space and poised for war. And George Marquis Lorrilard, a sometime lieutenant in the United Continents Space Navy (that pitiful handful of space guards) and now a space exploiter supposedly driven by greed, must change the fate of Earth and the stars.
If I Were You
This is a book that contains two shorts: If I Were You and The Last Drop, both stories published in pulp magazines during that era.
The first story, If I Were You, is about a dwarf who works at a circus. An old man leaves books of black magic to the dwarf, who quickly discovers that there is a way for his soul and the soul that occupies the other body to switch. He decides to switch with the ringmaster, so he can be the true lead of the circus. Unfortunately his dream does not go according to plan.
The Last Drop – A special elixir from Borneo that causes people to grow very big or become very small reduces a bartender and a mobster to a combat in miniature.
One Was Stubborn
Things are disappearing. Parts of buildings, parts of people, parts of the whole world. Old Shellback—a character as crazy-smart as Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future—thinks he needs glasses. But all he really has to do is open his eyes, and see that George Smiley the Messiah is busy dismantling the world. But two can play at this game. While George is making this world disappear, Old Shellback will make another one appear—and take an amazing journey back to a future of his own making.
Revolt in the Stars
Revolt in the Stars is a science fiction film screenplay written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1977. It tells the space opera story of how an evil galactic dictator, named Xenu, massacres many of his subjects by transporting them to Earth and killing them with atomic bombs. In the screenplay’s story, which takes place 75 million years before modern times, an evil galactic ruler, named Xenu, massacres millions of people with assistance from Chu, the Executive President of the Galactic Interplanetary Bank, and Chi, the Galactic Minister of Police. Xenu’s psychiatric advisers, Stug and Sty, help him gather "unwanted" beings from all of the planets in his control and transport them to Earth. The beings are stacked around the bases of Earth’s volcanoes including Loa, Mount Vesuvius, Mount Shasta, Mount Fuji, Mount Etna and others, and exterminated by detonating planted charges of atomic bombs.
Slaves of Sleep and the Masters of Sleep
Explore an exotic new world in this fantastic tale. Millionaire Jan Palmer’s fortunes abruptly change when the seal on an ancient Arabian copper jar is broken and a powerful and relentless evil is released – Zongri the Jinn. Imprisoned for thousands of years, Zongri has sworn that whoever sets him free will die. But when he fulfills this vow by slashing Professor Frobish in two, it is Jan Palmer, holding the bloody scimitar, who is caught by the police. For Jan, his problems have just begun: Zongri, before departing, curses him with "Eternal Wakefulness." Locked in a prison cell, charged with murder, Jan comes to a horrible realization of what this means. As he drifts into slumber he finds himself in a strange world, one where humans rank below slaves, where evil Jinn reign and danger is all too real. On Earth he is Jan Palmer, imprisoned for murder, and in the land of the Jinn he is "Tiger," the swashbuckling rogue – but in both, he faces death at every turn. Acclaimed as one of Hubbard’s most powerful and timeless fantasy stories. " A master of adventure ."–Anne McCaffrey.
The Crossroads
Farmer Eben Smith heads off to the big city to trade his wagonload of produce. But he barters a lot more than goods after he stumbles across a strange crossroads in time, bargains with different cultures in alternate realities and accidentally wreaks havoc and chaos in each. Also includes: "Borrowed Glossary" and "The Devil’s Rescue."
The Great Secret
Fanner Marston is on the verge of uncovering the key to gaining absolute control over the universe. The only problem is, he’s certifiably insane—a crazed Peter Lorre on a power trip. Driven by greed and lust for power, all he cares about is reaching the ancient city of Parva—and finding The Great Secret of absolute power. But the writing’s on the walls of Parva—and you won’t believe what it says.
The Professor Was a Thief
Pop is a down-on-his-luck reporter needing a big story–one he finds after the Empire State Building, Grant’s Tomb and Grand Central Station disappear. When Pop digs deeper, he discovers a professor behind it all who, rather than inventing a means of blowing things up, is doing quite the opposite.
The Tramp
Doughface Jack acquires phenomenal mental powers after a brain operation and now he can instantaneously heal, kill or make the old young. Goaded by a vengeful and beautiful woman, Doughface is propelled headlong towards the ultimate seat of power!
To the Stars
Set in an uncertain, strife-torn future when the first starships of man are traveling across the galaxy—but not without extracting a terrible price from their crews.
The novel’s thought-provoking opening line, "Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy," powerfully captures the challenges facing the brave men and women of these vessels—people who must give up their former lives to explore space as entire generations and whole societies come and go on Earth, while those aboard remain essentially untouched by the passage of time in a vessel traveling at nearly the speed of light.
This immersing, remarkably ruthless drama begins when Alan Corday, a naively unseasoned but brilliant young engineer, is shanghaied from the spaceport at New Chicago and taken aboard the "Hound of Heaven"—bound for the stars.
Typewriter in the Sky
Though it couldn’t possibly be real, in Typewriter in the Sky pianist Mike de Wolf suddenly finds himself, through a freak accident, part of an adventure novel being written by his friend, Horace Hackett. To his utter dismay, he finds himself cast as the villain and destined for certain death in this well-written and plot-twisting adventure.
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