(urth) Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis
Mo Holkar / UKG
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Tue Nov 25 01:01:04 PST 2008
At 22:29 24/11/2008, Adam wrote:
>>Ron Hubbard was an excellent writer. "Fear" is possibly the scariest
>>book
>>I have read.
>
>Did he have a lobotomy before "Battlefield Earth," then? I suffered
>through it in high school sometime, and even *I*, who would read
>ANYTHING, could tell it sucked.
>
>Adam
With Hubbard the general rule is: pre-1950, often good, sometimes
excellent ('Fear' and 'Typewriter in the Sky' are standouts);
post-1980, appallingly dire.
Inbetween, of course, he developed Dianetics, launched the Church of
Scientology, and all that. Which I don't know if you'd equate it to a
lobotomy, but it certainly did seem to have an adverse impact on his
sf writing.
Mo
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