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Subject: Author Lists: L Ron Hubbard
From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM
Date: 20 Feb 89 12:51:57 GMT




L. Ron Hubbard had some fame in the 30's and 40's as a pulp SF writer.
Reportedly his best book of the period was "Typewriter in the Sky".  Since
then he founded Dianetics, made megabuck, and even published a new SF
deckology.  None of which I've read.

[O] == Omnibus.  Includes other books.
aka == Also known by this other title.

/John

arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com

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Hubbard, L[aFayette] Ron[ald] [U.S.A., 13/03/1911-24/01/1986]
    [founder of the Church of Scientology]
    From Death To The Stars [1953] [O]
        Death's Deputy [1948]
        The Kingslayer [1949] [aka "Seven Steps to The Arbiter"]
    The Invaders Plan Dekalogy:
        Mission Earth: The Invader's Plan [1985]
        Black Genesis [1986]
        The Enemy Within [1986]
        An Alien Affair [1986]
        Fortune of Fear [1986]
        Death Quest [1987]
        Voyage of Vengence [1987]
        Disaster [1987]
        Villany Victorious [1987]
        The Doomed Planet [1987]
    Final Blackout [1948]
    Slaves of Sleep [1948]
    Triton and Battle of Wizards[1949]
    Typewriter in the Sky & Fear [1951] [2 novels]
    Return to Tomorrow [1954]
    Fear & The Ultimate Adventure [1970] [2 novels]
    Ole Doc Methuselah [1970] [C]
    Battlefield Earth [1982]

From archive (archive)
Subject: Re: As long as L Ron Hubbard is being discussed..
From: djo@PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: 28 Jul 89 15:41:45 GMT



In article <2896@puff.cs.wisc.edu> anich@puff.WISC.EDU (Steven Anich) writes:
>The Church was formed by Elron to deal with the IRS.

Like so much that "everyone knows" about C. of S. this might or might not be
partially or completely true.

The evidence I've seen seems to point rather more in two other directions.

First, that Hubbard and some of his cronies/trainees/whatever (auditors) were 
performing Dianetics therapy and the American Psychological Ass'n got down on
them for practicing psychotherapy w/out a license.  In the collected LETTERS
of John W. Campbell, one finds out that JWC suggested to LRH that there was one
group that had been practicing psychotherapy for *thousands* of years, that they
were and remained unlicensed, that nobody challenged their right to do so, and 
that, what's more, they were tax-exempt.  This last was rather a secondary
consideration; LRH was in danger of jail for practicing w/out a license.  So, on
that level, JWC took credit for suggesting to LRH that he found a religion.
(Though he also seems to have felt that LRH went about it all wrong; but that 
was typical of Campbell...)

Second, that Hubbard had been developing some, uh, unique philosophical ideas
even before he evolved the "Science of Mind," as he called Dianetics.  The
founding of a church, then, seemed the logical way to introduce his philosophy
to a world waiting with bated breath for his deathless wisdom.

Of course, other theories are offered by other folks.  I imagine that CoS has
a very different story indeed, but I'm not affiliated with them and don't know
what their pravda is.  Nor do I know what the pravda of the witch-hunting types
who claim that LRH was the greatest fraud, demagogue, and antichrist since 
whoever the last one was, is.  Me, I try to stay neutral on issues I don't know
enough about, and suggest that others do the same...:*)



Dan'l