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1) G e n e r a l   o v e r v i e w / i n t r o d u c t i o n :   M i s s i o n   s t a t e m e n t ,   o v e r v i e w ,   r e s e a r c h   s p e c i f i c s I n t r o d u c t i o n   t o   S c i e n t o l o g y   a n d   L R H K e e p i n g   S c i e n t o l o g y   W o r k i n g ,   f u n d a m en t al s S c i e n t o l o g y   i n   m e d i a   a nd   I n t e r n e t   ( +   f o r u m s ,   W i k i p e d i a ) S c i e n t o l o g y :   I t s   t r u e   h i s t o r y   e x p o s e d ? S c i e n t o l o g y   Q & A   ( F A Q ) E x t e r n a l   l i n k s M a t e r i a l s   w a n t   l i s t R e c o m m e n d e d   l i s t   o f   m a t e r i a l s 2) R e s p o n s e s   ( w i t h   a n n o t a t i o n s ) : A p p r e c i a t i v e   r e s p o n s e s   t o   m y   p a g e s C r i t i q u e   r e c e i v e d   ( 1 )   f r o m   c h u r c h g o i n g   S c i e n t o l o g i s t s C r i t i q u e   r e c e i v e d   ( 2 )   f r o m   o u t - o f - c h u r c h   S c i e n t o l o g i s t s C r i t i q u e   r e c e i v e d    ( 3 )   f r o m   a n t i - S c i e n t o l o g i s t s 3) T o p i c s   o f   p a r t i c u l a r   i n t e r e s t : (a): G e n e r a l   t o p i c s H o l y   S c r i p t u r e s   v s   S c i e n t o l o g y L R H   v s   D i c t i o n a r i e s L R H   v s   t h e o r y   o f   e v o l u t i o n L R H ' s   w o r k s   o f   f i c t i o n (b): O r g a n i z a t i o n a l   t o p i c s A   p r i n t i n g   h i s t o r y   o f   t h e   m a t e r i a l s   o f   S c i e n t o l o g y S c i e n t o l o g y   M e m b e r s h i p :   H A S I   v s   I A S L R H   v s   p r i c i n g   p o l i c i e s T h e   c o p y r i g h t s   i s s u e   a n d   l i c e n s i n g (c): T e c h n i c a l   t o p i c s H i s t o r y   o f   G r a d e   C h a r t :   a )   G e n e r a l H i s t o r y   o f   G r a d e   C h a r t :   b )   D e t a i l e d ‘ C l e a r ’   d e f i n e d N E D   f o r   O T s T h e   ‘ P r i m a r y   R u n d o w n ’ 4) C o n t r o v e r s i a l   t o p i c s : M i s t a k e n   i d e a s   o f   ‘ E t h i c s ’   c l a r i f i e d T h e   F a i r    G a m e   L a w P r a c t i c e   o f   D i s c o n n e c t i o n S e c u r i t y   C h e c k i n g F r e e l o a d e r s   v s   E x - s t a f f   m e m b e r s T h e   ‘ R e h a b i l i t a t i o n   P r o j e c t   F o r c e ’   ( R P F ) 5) C h a n g e s   i n   t h e   f l o w   o f   ‘ i n f o r m a t i o n ’: (a): A l t e r a t i o n s   ( L R H   o r   n o n- L R H ? ) L R H   v s   A l t e r a t i o n s N o n - L R H   t u r n s   i n t o   L R H ?   &   P r o p o s a l   t o   s o l u t i o n T h e    ‘ C r a m m i n g   S e r i e s ’   -   L R H   o r   n o t   L R H ? B a s e d   o n   L R H   p u b l i c a t i o n s (b): G e n e r a l   o v e r v i e w L R H   v s   A   N e w   O r d e r   ( i n t r o d u c t i o n ) → A d m i n i s t r a t i v e   a n d    o r g a n i z a t i o n a l   m a t t e r s S e t u p   o f   t h e   p r i n t e d   m a t e r i a l s   ( 1 9 7 3 - 8 6 ) T h e   R T R C ,   t h e   u n i t   t h a t   w r o t e   L R H   i s s u e s   ( 1 9 7 3 - 8 2 ) T h e   d a w n i n g   o f   R T C   a n d   n e w   m a n a g e m e n t   ( 1 9 8 2 - 8 3 ) → T e c h n i c a l   m a t t e r s I n t r o d u c t i o n   t o   t h e   e v e n t   o f   l o s i n g   a   B r i d g e ) A n a l y s i s   o f   H C O B   “ T e c h   C o r r e c t i o n   R o u n d - u p ” L o s t   B r i d g e :   T e c h   c h a n g e s   d u r i n g   1 9 7 8 - 8 2 T h e   h i s t o r y   o f   t h e   o r i g i n a l   O T   V I I I ‘ G o l d e n   A g e   o f   T e c h ’   ( G A T )   a n a l y s i s D r i l l i n g   i n   S c i e n t o l o g y (c): T h e   m a t t e r   o f   D a v i d   M a y o S t o r y   o f   D a v i d   M a y o ‘ S O   E D   2 3 4 4   I n t’   a n a l y s i s T r a i n i n g   d r i l l s   ( T R s ) M a y o   r e f e r e n c e   l i s t 6) C o n s p i r a c i e s   -   I n   L .   R o n   H u b b a r d ' s   f o o t s t e p s S c i e n t o l o g y   v s   a   N e w   W o r l d   O r d e r → W h e r e   i s   L .   R o n   H u b b a r d ?   ( c h r o n o l o g y   o f   S c n   h i s t o r y ) W h e r e a b o u t s   o f   L .   R o n   H u b b a r d   c h r o n o l o g y T h e   e r a   o f   a d o r a t i o n ;   P r e s e n t a t i o n   o f   L .   R o n   H u b b a r d L .   R o n   H u b b a r d   i n t o   a r t i s t r y :   M u s i c   &   F i l m → W h e r e   i s   h i s   w i f e   a n d   f a m i l y ? S t o r y   o f   M a r y   S u e   H u b b a r d T h e   l a s t   s t a n d :   T h e   G u a r d i a n   O f f i c e 7) S c i e n t o l o g y   u n d e r   a t t a c k (a): A   p r e m e d i t a t e d   s e r i e s   o f   o c c u r r e n c e s ?   ( ’ 8 0 s   c o n s p i r a c y ) I n t r o d u c t i o n   &   R o n   D e W o l f G e r r y   A r m s t r o n g   ( ‘ a f f i r m a t i o n s ’ ) R u s s e l l   M i l l e r    ( ‘ B a r e - F a c e d   M e s s i a h ’ ) A   r e l i g i o n   c r e a t e d   f o r   t h e   m o n e y ? (b): B a t t l e s   f o u g h t   a n d   t h e   i n t e r n e t   ( 2 0 1 6 -   ) L e a h   R e m i n i :   S c i e n t o l o g y   a n d   t h e   A f t e r m a t h   ( T V   s h o w )

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Please note that words with an asterisk (*) are defined at the bottom of this page! Only first appearances are indicated.

	“‘Hubbard is a science fiction writer.’ (This is not too bad as people respect science fiction writers. But it is false. Hubbard only wrote 1,000,000 words of science fiction over a short period and wrote 14,000,000 words on other things. They plug ‘fiction’ to connect it to Scientology. Subtly clever.)”
	L. Ron Hubbard
	(from HCO PL 9 Jun 75 “The Enemy Line”)

Dedicated to Virgil Wilhite (1942/2004), collector & LRH* researcher.
This page has been released April 11, 2005, exactly one year after his passing.

L. Ron Hubbard and his works of fiction  (page 1, index page)

 
Index:

	How to go about performing independent research?
	A fiction legacy (1932-50)
	The fiction legacy of L. Ron Hubbard vs Redefining words
	Virgil Wilhite, ‘L. Ron Hubbard collector’ and his role in the Widder Bibliography
	Pen names
	Old fiction republished and a return(?) to fiction writing (1980- )
	Republication initiatives of these fiction tales in more recent years
		- ‘L. Ron Hubbard Classic Fiction Series’ (1990-99) - Releases of ‘Galaxy Press’ (2008-14)
	A new fiction legacy established?
		- L. Ron Hubbard returning to fiction writing since the late ’70s? - Regarding the authorship of ‘Battlefield Earth’ (1980) and ‘Mission Earth’ (1981-82) - What about the long list of unpublished works of fiction?
	The role of the Church of Scientology
		- Why this renewed focus on science fiction? - Is the Church of Scientology doing themselves a disservice? - ‘science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard’ (battles fought on Wikipedia) - What about republicing the non-fiction legacy? (1932-50)
	Statistics and lists
	Statistics (fiction oeuvre)
		- (1) General overview - (2) The ‘Feb 1932 - Nov 1950’ time frame (pre-Scientology)  (also ‘Oct 1981 - Jun 1993’ time frame)
	Complete works of fiction in chronological order  (on separate page)
		- Published works of fiction (1932-50) - Published works of fiction (1981-99) - Unpublished works of fiction
	Series of stories  (also represented in the chronological list)

How to go about performing independent research?

Government funding:   You could apply for government funding which then would have to be channeled through various approval committees and that sort of thing. You need to be able to speak for your case and thoroughly explain why funds should be coming your direction. After that, you may wish to continue the research that you started for which you have to offer results. Thus you have to do your best to convince the persons appearing on these channels that these results gotten are good enough to have you advance. Many a person may apply for such government funding, but only a limited amount of persons in the end will be approved.

Private funding:  Another way would be seeking private funding for which you have to get in contact with wealthy and/or influential individuals, or established companies that may have laboratories or other means you may require. Here however you may be risking that the results of your research may get disowned, and there most likely will be contractual obligations of sorts.

Personal funding:  If you do not wish to subject yourself to this, get rejected, or have it disowned, then you have only one final option. Which then is that you must provide and/or secure your own funding. It would appear that L. Ron Hubbard had chosen for this option. L. Ron Hubbard apparently had skills, one of them being writing. This initial research into Dianetics and Scientology had been funded amongst other through this writing and publication of fiction stories as well as non-fiction articles.

	“I have been at work for seven years to produce a series of techniques which any well trained auditor can use to clear people. We now have them.
	I am truly sorry that this took seven years. Actually, it took more than twenty-five.
	Under other ‘systems of research’ it could not have been done. It was financed at first by my writings and expeditions. Some 15,000,000 words of fact and fiction articles ranging from political articles to western were consumed in a large part by this research - - but it was free to act if not free from sweat.
	No bullying dictator wanted it for his mass slaveries as happened to poor misguided Pavlov. No big corporation wanted it for a better Madison Avenue approach to advertizing - - another kind of slavery. No big RESEARCH FOUNDATION like Ford was here to interject their ‘America First’ philosophy. These had not paid for it; therefore they didn't own it. The work stayed free.”          LRH (from ‘Scientology: Clear Procedure, Issue One’, “Introduction” (1957))

These lines were written in 1957. It says “that this took seven years” (‘Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health’ was published in 1950), directly followed with the comment “Actually, it took more than twenty-five.”, which gets us to 1932 (works of fiction were published during 1932-50).

People in general however tend to want to believe that such scenarios concerning enforced outer control would be imaginary or at least exaggerated. Well, they may not be. Every person that performed a vast study of history knows these things to be quite real. Today these elements of control are as real as they were earlier in history. As an example Ben Stein's film ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ (2008) addresses these matters.

The fiction legacy of L. Ron Hubbard vs Redefining words

	“The redefinition of words is done by associating different emotions and symbols with the word than were intended.
	The American Medical Association and the National Association for Mental Health in England and South Africa and the ‘British Psychological Association’ in Australia have been working very hard to redefine Scientology in the public mind. ...
	The AMA has even gotten US dictionaries to redefine ‘Dianetics’ as a ‘pseudo-science from Science Fiction’.
	Fortunately the public does not respect and is not responding to Mass news media. Mass news media believes it steers public opinion, but in actual fact can get a reverse effect.
	‘The capitalistic AMA is seeking to deny the people the benefits of new discoveries such as Scientology because it would eradicate the great profits the AMA makes from the psychosomatic illnesses of the people,’ would be a statement reversing the reversal of meaning. One has to find, pinpoint and denounce the propagandists to make headway against such an effort of redefinition. One brands the propagandist and blows the effort to redefine, using a steady standard PR campaign to do so.”          LRH (from HCO PL 5 Oct 71 “Propaganda by Redefinition of Words”)

Out on the Internet you will find a variety of websites that tell about L. Ron Hubbard his fiction work, mostly they would then focus on the science fiction and the fantasy stories, as these appeared more popular. None of these websites however give you a complete listing of his actual fiction legacy, why would they as most of these websites in fact focus on and address science fiction. Either way it will be hard to establish how much of all the fiction written was truly science fiction. It would then also be desirable to have a brief synopsis of each of such stories. A variety of the titles of these stories would be self-explaining. For example ‘Ride 'Em, Cowboy!’ is likely to be a western story. A title like ‘Forbidden Voyage’ on the other hand may be a harder task. It may be just an adventure or a fantasy story, but it could be a science fiction story. Would you have a synopsis of the story, it would enable you to categorize them.

The initial reason for this page being written was to enable anyone to find out and verify for him/herself what is true about those claims being made that L. Ron Hubbard would be primarily a science fiction writer and that Dianetics and Scientology was a natural continuation of that (also fiction). Provided here is a complete listing of these works of fiction in chronological publication order, which is then followed by a listing of his unpublished fiction stories. All this is offered as information, the various genres and the synopsis are indicated. You can also see very clearly when he wrote a certain genre of stories. It basically starts with predominant adventure/western type stories, later they tend to be more science fiction/fantasy type stories. Which is not very surprising as during the ’40s and ’50s particularly science fiction was in really huge demand, not only in writing but also in the cinema.

The following work has been found invaluable for this initiative:

William J. Widder, M.A.
The Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard: A comprehensive bibliography & reference guide to published and selected unpublished works.
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.; Bridge Publications, Incorporated, 1994; 373pp.
© 1994 L. Ron Hubbard Library
ISBN 0-88404-936-1

This work gives a treasure of very detailed background information. It gives full details about any of the published and even a record of unpublished stories, also listing incomplete stories, film scripts and so on. Details are given of where, when and who had published these, including any reprints, and any translations. Further it provides for much background data concerning how these stories came about or what L. Ron Hubbard was involved with at the time if this was relating to the stories written. All the entries are cross indexed in various ways in this work. I have only extracted that information that was to fulfil the purpose of my initiative. I have followed the story publication sequence as given in this work. The synopses are also taken from this work. And thus sufficient information is provided for enabling any person to positively establish and verify the actual genre of each of these stories. Making for a solid argument to counter the claims of critics that willfully wish to associate Dianetics and Scientology as being science fiction as well. Might it be said that these propagandists were exceedingly persistent with their claim for which reason I had to go to this length making a case.

The indicated genres found in this book are also the ones that are given on this page. They are divided up in the categories adventure, fantasy, mystery/detective, romance, science fiction and western.

There exists also a more recent publication about the fiction of L. Ron Hubbard from the same compiler:

William J. Widder, M.A.
Master Storyteller: An illustrated tour of the fiction of L. Ron Hubbard.
Hollywood, California, U.S.A.; Galaxy Press Inc, 2003; 194pp.
ISBN 1-59212-054-7

I do not have a copy of this second book, but judging from the reviews I have read this seems to work best as a display of the artwork associated with L. Ron Hubbard's fiction writing career.

                                                            

Virgil Wilhite, ‘L. Ron Hubbard collector’ and his role in the Widder Bibliography

Virgil Wilhite was probably the person that had the most extensive L. Ron Hubbard collection in existence. He told me that he already during the ’70s went to Scientology organizations and purchased interesting items from their old stock. In 1989 he opened a small bookshop in downtown Clearwater (Fl), close to the Fort Harrison hotel. It was in this very bookshop that I got acquainted with him, and learned about his passion about books and collecting. His area of collecting was basically anything that falls in relation to L. Ron Hubbard, his fiction as well as his non-fiction works. He had also included those works that were not written but recommended by L. Ron Hubbard. For a great number of years he traveled acquiring materials and indexing information. When I left for Europe I sort of lost track of him. I rekindled my contact with him when I found him again a few years later while I searched for him on the Internet. Since that time we had regular contact through emails, had various lengthy discussions on a variety of subjects, exchanged information and helped each other with our collecting. It was Virgil that I had asked about the L. Ron Hubbard recommendation for the World Book Dictionary (see my page “L. Ron Hubbard about dictionaries”, visit here, separate window). It was Virgil that told me that I could find it in the previous 1976 release of ‘The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology’ volumes.

It was rather unexpectedly when I learned from his wife that he had suddenly passed away. I had lost a good companion, a source of information and listener.

[Printed: “To Michel, I may have put the main portion of this book together, in so far as the basic research goes, but the Sea Org did a great job in creating a Valuable Final Product!! Virgil Wilhite 4/14/98”]

Pen names

L. Ron Hubbard is known to have made use of various pseudonyms for writing his fiction stories and even some of his non-fiction writings. It is rumoured that he was asked to do so because he wrote these stories with such a high velocity. Just for not letting it appear that so many of these stories that appeared in these pulp fiction publications were actually written by the same person.

But then, what to do with for example Fred Engelhardt? Is that a real identity? I guess I will let some other people battling about all this...

Republication initiatives of these fiction tales in more recent years

• ‘L. Ron Hubbard Classic Fiction Series’ (1990-99)
• Releases of ‘Galaxy Press’ (2008-14)

Needless to say that many of these original throw-away magazines are today a bit hard to find. For this reason there have been various initiatives to make them more easily available.

‘L. Ron Hubbard Classic Fiction Series’ (1990-99)

	Mystery/Suspense stories:	Black leather
	Adventure stories:	Burgundy (dark-red) leather
	Western stories:	Tan (light-brown) leather
	Science fiction/Fantasy stories:	Teal (blue-green) leather

A (considerable in my opinion) downside of this release is that it is not accompanied with the original artwork or applicable bookcovers of the original magazine publications.

The various stories were not republished in any chronological (original publication) order. Many volumes in the series carried a collection of 2, 3 or 4 stories, but the sequence is apparently chosen at random. You can however easily divide them up by genre, as they come in various differently coloured leather bindings.

I did contact the publisher Author Services, Inc. about the 2 missing stories, but thus far I have not received an answer. Quite frankly I don't expect to receive any response either way. After all this has been noted as a for profit cooperation. My request for information does not directly involve buying anything, or it must be that there exists a special (thin) additional volume carrying these 2 stories they could sell to me. Also it is noted that the series had been concluded back in 1999, and I contacted them as late as 2013. Even if 2 stories had been omitted by mistake or other reason they are not going to admit that to me, now would they!

“But now you can share Ron's adventures and join in the excitement of his many action-filled stories by reading The L. Ron Hubbard Classic Fiction Series - - the first-ever republication of the entire library of L. Ron Hubbard fiction works in newly produced leatherbound books.” (from promotional folder issued by Author Services, Inc. (1991)

A republication thus, that will be missing 5 stories for the common collector, and missing 2 stories for the hardcore collector.

Another obstacle arises in the surfacing of additional pen names, for example that Frederick Engelhardt. The Church of Scientology representatives are entirely silent about it, where the fiction writing communities confirm this. This would add another 5 stories not presented in this luxurious release.

 
Releases of ‘Galaxy Press’ (2008-14)

The first 5 that were issued in this series, these all in Jul 2008.

A new fiction legacy established?

• L. Ron Hubbard returning to fiction writing since the late ’70s?
• Regarding the authorship of ‘Battlefield Earth’ (1980) and ‘Mission Earth’ (1981-82)
• What about the long list of unpublished works of fiction?

 
L. Ron Hubbard returning to fiction writing since the late ’70s?

The following information can thus be extracted from above named bibliography:

‘Revolt in the Stars’	full-length science fiction screenplay	written 1976-77*	unpublished
unnamed movie plot	synopsis of a mystery-detective movie	written 1979/Jun*	unpublished
‘Battlefield Earth’	science fiction	written 1980*	published 1982
‘Ai! Pedrito!’	full-length comedy screenplay	written 1981*	published 1998/Jun
‘A Very Strange Trip’	full-length time-travel comedy screenplay	written 1981*	published 1999/Jun
‘The Were-Human’	fantasy		published 1981/Oct*
‘He Found God’	science fiction		published 1982/Sept*
‘Mission Earth’ (10 vols)	science fiction	written 1981-82*	published 1985-87

*  page 216 of bibliography dates this to 1977, whereas page 32 dates it to 1976 *  see page 216 of bibliography *  see page 32 and 216 of bibliography *  see page 32 and 217 of bibliography *  see page 169 of bibliography *  see page 32 of bibliography

These are the only writings of fiction that, per the information forwarded by this bibliography, that actually can be dated to either have been written and/or published in the 1976-82 time frame.

	“So technical progress has been: ...
	COMPLETE DIANETICS - 1969.
	COMPLETE SCIENTOLOGY - 1970.”          LRH (from ‘LRH ED 117 Int’, 26 Aug 70 “Current Cases”)

If it was such an issue for him, as has been claimed, to return to the writing of fiction, then why did it not commence already during the early ’70s? As after all there was now time to do so!

Writing science fiction once again?

 
Regarding the authorship of ‘Battlefield Earth’ (1980) and ‘Mission Earth’ (1981-82)

There is also another version of this. Which is found in affidavits and communications from and concerning Robert Vaughn Young. He was a member of the Church of Scientology for a period of 20 years (1969-1989), he had worked in many areas within the organization including the highest management echelons. The below information is presented as I found them. I excerpted the parts relating to the writing of ‘Battlefield Earth’ and ‘Mission Earth’.

There is:
	“ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG AFFIDAVIT   Copyright (C) 1994 Robert Vaughn Young   Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes.
	DECLARATION OF ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG
	I, ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG, declare as follows:

And there is this:
	“IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO - Civil Action No. 95-K-2143:  Declaration of Robert Vaughn Young in Support of Defendant's Opposition to the Motion of Bridge Publications, Inc. for Summary Judgment Against all Defendants for Copyright Infringement.  Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of February, 1997, Robert Vaughn Young.”

The dekalogy ‘Mission Earth’ is noted as a sequel to ‘Battlefield Earth’ which turned into this 10-part series.

A more detailed overview of the supposed involvement of Robert Vaughn Young was posted on a newsgroup on the Internet. It seems verified that this indeed was posted by him. It was entitled: “L. RON HUBBARD'S MISSION EARTH: the rest of the story”. It appears also posted on various websites on the Internet. You may consult it in full here (pop-up window). How you as the reader are going to look upon this, well that's up to you. I provide it solely as information. I perceive that I can not just go around it, or even ignore it. The person of Robert Vaughn Young does carry a particular significance in the tale of how these books came about.

It has been proposed that both ‘Battlefield Earth’ and its sequel ‘Mission Earth’ had in fact been written by L. Ron Hubbard for real, but possibly already at a much earlier date. There is something peculiar with these books. Various persons have perceived as if these books would contain technical information and a noted relation to what is happening these days on this planet. Some persons have been looking for messages in these volumes and more such things. This of course is pure speculation, nonetheless if L. Ron Hubbard was not around anymore at the time that these volumes were published, this does not necessarily have to mean that he did not author them. We should however not either overlook the fact that these books were issued by Author Services Incorporated (ASI) which is noted as a for profit corporation. Either way we are being forwarded various interesting factors. It reminds me somewhat of the novel ‘The Mighty Atom’ written by the Victorian authoress Marie Corelli in 1896, also this book as some have thought (and still are thinking) is claimed to contain a secret formula of some sort that could be uncovered if read in a certain way.

 
What about the long list of unpublished works of fiction?

The fiction stories that are listed as unpublished amounts to 98 stories. The bibliography notes on page 171: “Dates are indicated only where verified.”. It appears that only stories U:59 and U:88 give a time indication, respectively 1937 and 1921. Which would give the impression that these 98 unpublished stories all would or could be (probably are) deriving from the early fiction writing years. The question arises though why there are so many of these unpublished stories. Considering that during 1932-50 a total of 217 stories were actually published which sufficed making a living and perform said research during close to 20 years. In that respect 98 stories is quite a lot! So, are all these may be (very) short tales? We are not supplied with that information. The bibliography additionally lists 71 entries listed as “Incomplete stories and fragments”.

The role of the Church of Scientology

• Why this renewed focus on science fiction?
• Is the Church of Scientology doing themselves a disservice?
• ‘science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard’ (battles fought on Wikipedia)
• What about republicing the non-fiction legacy? (1932-50)

 
Why this renewed focus on science fiction?

One would assume that the role and purpose of the Church of Scientology and its representatives was to have their focus on getting the technology of Dianetics and Scientology into the hands of the public and in use. After all this had been the sole reason why the organization had been established. At least until 1980 there had not been any attention on initiatives to have any works of fiction written by L. Ron Hubbard getting published or republished.

“‘Hubbard is a science fiction writer.’ (This is not too bad as people respect science fiction writers. But it is false. Hubbard only wrote 1,000,000 words of science fiction over a short period and wrote 14,000,000 words on other things. They plug ‘fiction’ to connect it to Scientology. Subtly clever.)”          LRH (from HCO PL 9 Jun 75 “The Enemy Line”)

It notes here “1,000,000 words of science fiction”, it likely refers here to the entire fiction oeuvre, thus not only science fiction (just add up the pages from main fiction list).

Then William J. Widder's ‘The Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard’ (1994), noted on page 32 that “During 1980–1981, Hubbard produces two million words of fiction.” (underlining is mine).

	“I have been at work for seven years to produce a series of techniques which any well trained auditor can use to clear people. We now have them.
	I am truly sorry that this took seven years. Actually, it took more than twenty-five.
	Under other ‘systems of research’ it could not have been done. It was financed at first by my writings and expeditions. Some 15,000,000 words of fact and fiction articles ranging from political articles to western were consumed in a large part by this research - - but it was free to act if not free from sweat.”          LRH (from ‘Scientology: Clear Procedure, Issue One’, “Introduction” (1957))

So, how important and valuable was writing works of fiction actually for L. Ron Hubbard? Considering it was done for a purpose that involved being able to finance research in these subjects of Dianetics and Scientology. What logic is there to be found with all that attention and these merchandizing endeavors in the area of works of fiction as so vividly and enthusiastically executed by the Church of Scientology and its representatives? Is it because of a for profit consideration? Is there something else we are not being told here?

The question is if the Church of Scientology doing themselves a disservice here or is it all a carefully planned operation?

 
Is the Church of Scientology doing themselves a disservice?

In 1982 we see that ‘Battlefield Earth’ was heavily being promoted and since 1985-87 it was the turn for the 10 volumes of ‘Mission Earth’. Both of these releases received a significant media coverage, and these were actual works of science fiction, all of it. The question that may have to be asked is if the fact that this was science fiction, if that was purposely done? Indirect you would stir up in people's minds the association of the subject of Scientology with science fiction. People most certainly do associate, and these releases confirmed the prejudices and the preconceptions that were already placed by the media in the mind of the public.

Coming out with all this science fiction and promote that as heavily as was done, this was like blowing air onto the fire. It is quite clearly countering the intention of promoting the subjects of Dianetics and Scientology. Today when the person L. Ron Hubbard is referred to in the media, then at least 9 out of the 10 times he is persistently referred to as a science fiction writer, and not a just an author or even pulp-fiction author, no it is as a writer of science fiction.

Is it logical to assume that L. Ron Hubbard would put his lifework at risk or damage its effect by releasing science fiction and have this promoted with so much verve during these ’80s? After all he wrote fiction primarily to fund that very research. The writing of works of fiction, as the indications that we have been given, would have been a phase that was over and done with. We should also not forget that the Author Services Inc. was a for profit corporation. Who was actually earning money from these sales?

 
‘science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard’ (battles fought on Wikipedia)

Could this be a consequence of all these efforts of late by the Chruch of Scientology presenting L. Ron Hubbard as this author of (science) fiction?

These days we are facing new phenomena such as Wikipedia which claims have a encyclopedia status. Which would be a big word for a database in where any non-scholastic (or fool) anonymously can basically spout anything he or she wishes. Its contents is changing from minute to minute. And indeed we find that very many battles are being fought there. Most particularly in the controversial sort of topics we find propagandists. More generally in all topics we find so-called ‘graffiti’ artists (inserting word and phrases here and there). It seems that the biggest job the Wikipedia editor has is to clean up the pages from this unwanted graffiti.

I analyzed this phenomena of Wikipedia rather extensively which study can be consulted in page “Scientology in the media and on the Internet”. The section on this page that specifically addresses the use of the denotative phrase ‘Science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard’ can be consulted here (separate window).

 
What about republicing the non-fiction legacy? (1932-50)

Thus works of fiction now have been published. The Church of Scientology however has ignored here the works of non-fiction that also were being written and published during the 1932-50 time span. When does the Church of Scientology plan to republish the complete works of non-fiction from these years? Thus far they have failed even to release a complete listing of these. You see, having given attention to this it may have helped to enervate the attention a bit off of this “Scientology? It's ALL fiction!”.

Indeed, it may be time to ask some questions! Water (fiction) and oil (non-fiction) generally just don't mix very well...

Statistics (fiction oeuvre)

• (1) General overview
• (2) The ‘Feb 1932 - Nov 1950’ time frame (pre-Scientology)
            (also ‘Oct 1981 - Jun 1993’ time frame)

 
(1) General overview

The presented statistical overview you see here finds its base in the information and genre designations found in William J. Widder's “The Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard: A comprehensive bibliography & reference guide to published and selected unpublished works.” (1994).

The table below will give you a summary of all fiction stories counted and divided by their genre. For this list please see at main index: “Complete works of fiction in chronological order”.

This table compares the science fiction tales with all the other genres combined:

Some persons may want to add the fantasy stories to the science fiction stories, which then gives:

Strictly taken as per the entered titles for the fiction work less than 20% of all these (published & unpublished) can be judged being actual science fiction. If you would add the fantasy stories to the science fiction it is little over 25%. If you would disregard the unpublished material you still would end up with 25% science fiction/fantasy.

Either way would this make L. Ron Hubbard primarily a science fiction writer in regards to all his works of fiction? (as isolated from his non-fiction writings)  The here presented statistics should tell you the gist of that.

 
(2) The ‘Feb 1932 - Nov 1950’ time frame (pre-Scientology)

No work of fiction was actually published during 31 years after November 1950. Since that time L. Ron Hubbard devoted all of his time to researching and developing the subject of Scientology and Dianetics.

It makes for an interesting comparison with the published fiction works in the ‘Oct 1981 - Jun 1993’ time frame.

Here the focus is obviously put about entirely on the science fiction genre. To be noted is as well that the bulk (11) of these recorded science fiction works were made up with the rather thick volume releases of ‘Battlefield Earth’ and ‘Mission Earth’ series (10 volumes).

Series of stories

Various stories have a related theme, have the same characters, or simply were sequels. On the various websites they may be referred to as series, or they may also be referred to as individual stories. For the clarity I have listed them below.

Addenda:  #  -  indicates the numbering as used on the chronological list of all fiction stories (see main index). A synopsis of the individual stories can also be found on that list.

1. (#66)	2. (#67)	3. (#77)	4. (#78)	5. (#79)	6. (#80)
‘Sleepy McGee’	‘Don't Rush Me’	‘Mr. Luck’	‘Test Pilot’	‘Deep-Sea Diver’	‘The Big Cats’
7. (#84)	8. (#85)	9. (#87)	10. (#88)	11. (#90)	12. (#91)
‘River Driver’	‘The Ethnologist’	‘Mine Inspector’	‘The Shooter’	‘Steeplejack’	‘Flying Trapeze’
13. (#92)	14. (#96)	15. (#101)	16. (#106)	17. (#108)
‘Mountaineer’	‘A Lesson in Lightning’	‘Nine Lives’	‘Cargo of Coffins’	‘Orders Is Orders’

1. (#153)	2. (#155)	3. (#159)	4. (#157)	5. (#168)
‘The Idealist’	‘The Kilkenny Cats’	‘The Traitor’	‘The Mutineers’	‘The Rebels’

1. (#178)	2. (#179)	3. (#180)	4. (#184)	5. (#191)	6. (#191)
‘Ole Doc Methuselah’	‘The Expensive Slaves’	‘Her Majesty's Aberration’	‘The Great Air Monopoly’	‘Plague’	‘A Sound Investment’
7. (#209)
‘Ole Mother Methuselah’

1. (#183)	2. (#187)	3. (#189)	4. (#194)	5. (#197)	6. (#200)
‘When Shadows Fall’	‘Forbidden Voyage’	‘The Magnificent Failure’	‘The Incredible Destination’	‘The Unwilling Hero’	‘Beyond the Black Nebula’
7. (#205)	8. (#212)	9. (#222)
‘The Emperor of the Universe’	‘The Last Admiral’	‘Tough Old Man’

1. (#226)	2. (#227)	3. (#228)	4. (#229)	5. (#230)	6. (#231)
7. (#232)	8. (#233)	9. (#234)	10. (#235)

Vocabulary:

     LRH:
An usual abbreviation for ‘L. Ron Hubbard’.
     Sea Org (SO):
Short for ‘Sea Organization’. This is the senior organization within the Church of Scientology that see to it that Advanced Organizations (AOs) and the Class IV-V organizations do function well. They send out so-called missions if there are indications or if they find that improvement or corrections are called for. They also provide for dissemination and other programs that the Scientology organizations are to comply with. Missions may be send out to implement these and instruct the organizations.
     ‘The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology’:
This is a series of books that contain the HCOBs, and any references that are primarily dealing with technical matters. The HCOBs are printed in red ink on white paper, and the volumes themselves come in red bindings. The references are arranged in chronological release order (per issue date). These books may also be referred to as the ‘red volumes’. The ‘old red volumes’ then would refer to the 1976-80 release, the ‘new red volumes’ instead to the 1991 release. See a listing of published volumes here (pop-up window).