Another proud publication of Galaxy Press ("publisher of the fiction works of L. Ron Hubbard"), owned by Author Services Inc. ("exclusive representatives for master storyteller L. Ron Hubbard"), which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Church of Spiritual Technology ("an autonomous church of the Scientology religion outside of the international Scientology ecclesiastical hierarchy").
Got that?
Here's something about L. Ron from a NY Times capsule review I read about twice a year, just because it's so good:
ReplyDeleteHis new books became best sellers, even though the plots were hackneyed in the extreme, the characters were thoroughly obnoxious (although not in any interesting way) and the sentences sounded as if they had been created on a non-English-speaking word-processor. Sample: ''Like a dying person's life flashing past their eyes, such news always brings a review of one's crimes.'' THE INVADERS PLAN (Bridge Publications, $18.95) is the first volume in a ''dekalogy'' with the overall title ''Mission Earth.'' Dekalogy is a neologism that we are told means ''a group of ten volumes.'' In his introduction, Mr. Hubbard assures us that what follows is satire, a form of literature whose origins he carefully explains in what I take to be a satire on ponderous, self-serving pseudoscholarship. What actually follows is a paralyzingly slow-moving adventure enlivened by interludes of kinky sex, sendups of effeminate homosexuals and a disregard of conventional grammar so global as to suggest a satire on the possibility of communication through language.
That's what happens when your followers have to go out and buy your books.
ReplyDeleteScientology is the only "religion" I can think of in which everything ever written by its founder is under copyright.
DeleteDon't know why, but I'd be very curious to read "Yukon Madness"
ReplyDeleteHave you?
Knuckles G.
I haven't read it. Just can't bear thought that some of my hard, honestly-earned pennies would trickle down through Galaxy Press, Author Services Inc. and the Church of Spiritual Technology to the Church of Scientology.
DeleteJust finished Google-ing L. Ron Hubbard and a series of his book covers. I don't know what year this art-work dates from but, I have to admit, I rather like the cover art...a combination of pulp fiction novels and The Hardy Boys.
ReplyDeleteCould this become a new guilty pleasure of mine???
Knuckles G.
It looks like the cover art was lifted from an old August issue of Mystery Adventures. What year I can't say, but judging from the 20¢ cover price it would have to be after 1935.
DeleteYou can see it here.
"EXOTIC - PEPPY - EXCITING"
Have you looked at the cover art for his other books?
ReplyDeleteYou mean they were all lifted off something else??? How disappointing!!! (see link below)
http://books.google.com/books/about/Yukon_Madness.html?id=2UTPhCETtEoC
This is all wonderful stuff... and really, who wouldn't want to have a book titled Inky Odds in their collection. If only it was by someone other than L. Ron Huddard.
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