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FREE never-before-published pirate essay by L. Ron Hubbard
Dear Friend, There is a place where justice is served down the barrel of a Winchester. Where arguments are settled at the point of a dagger. Where destinies unfold in the distant reaches of the universe. It's the Stories from the Golden Age which bring the adventure to you and put you in the middle of the action. These tales possess unparalleled authenticity, told by a man who had made three Pacific crossings and logged a quarter million miles by the time he was eighteen, garnering experiences which made it into his stories—imbuing them with life. But which stories can you get right now that will transport you to another place and time? |
ADVENTURE: UNDER THE BLACK ENSIGN Tom Bristol barely escapes an unjust death sentence aboard the HMS Terror when the ship is attacked and overtaken by pirates. Bristol eagerly joins the pirates but is soon stranded on a desert island for stopping a pirate mutiny and harboring a woman onboard. When Lady Jane Campbell joins Tom at sea, things really set sail in this swashbuckling adventure. WATCH THE BOOK TRAILER
SCIENCE FICTION: THE GREAT SECRET Fanner Marston is a man whose greed and lust for power drives him through a blistering desert to the legendary city of Parva, where a secret awaits that will give him absolute control over all the universe. Also includes: Space Can, The Beast and The Slaver. Falsely accused of murder and grand larceny, Kurt Reid flees to Shanghai. After rescuing a White Russian spy, he's captured by the Chinese and forced into the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage and intrigue, where everything and everyone are not what they appear to be. Circus midget Little Tom Little learns from a set of ancient books on black magic how to switch bodies. When he jumps into the body of a lion tamer, he finds himself caught in the center ring surrounded by dozens of savage cats and quickly realizes, his craving for height just may have led him to a gruesome death. Also includes: The Last Drop. Lee Weston is blamed for rustling cattle, which he's almost lynched for. Determined to find the killer of his father he gets double-crossed and framed for shooting the father of the only girl he looked at more than once and now the whole town is after him! These stories are not only available in beautiful quality paperback format but each book is recorded as an audiobook in an unprecedented style, making this a true "theatre-of-the-mind" experience. The recordings were done with multi-cast performers, state-of-the-art sound effects, and original musical compositions, creating an atmosphere of authenticity that brings each of the stories to life. |
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Here
is a quick overview:
Now, you're probably wondering how Mr. Hubbard came to be such a versatile and prolific writer who routinely produced between seventy-five and a hundred thousands words a month, with a 90% acceptance rate from publishers—first draft, first submission. As editors told readers in the glory days of American pulp fiction: He
writes the way he does, brothers, because He not only became a blood-brother of the Blackfeet Indian at a very young age, the young Ron also undertook expeditions such as one to the Caribbean aboard the four-masted schooner Doris Hamlin, from which would spring his later sea adventures like The Pearl Pirate. His seafaring stories discarded buccaneering lore and replaced it with sharp attention to detail, accurate settings and history, and characters of substance, not pretext. Consider Under the Black Ensign, which portrayed the true nature of a pirate, not as a marauding stereotype, but as a refugee from a brutal and chaotic life at sea who found a more organized and even dignified life. In time, Ron would hold a rare Master Mariner's license to pilot any vessel, of any tonnage in any ocean. He was also an engineer and ethnologist who led expeditions to study twenty-one different cultures. The simple fact is that all of his adventuring gave him a profound insight into the real world that leant a uniquely authentic quality to his fiction. He also was a leader among his peers, serving a term as president of the American Fiction Guild, whose membership was a veritable pulp hall of fame, including the likes of Lester Dent (Doc Savage), Walter Gibson (The Shadow) and Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man).
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What
others are saying. "L.
Ron Hubbard was only twenty-five when he wrote the Hell Job
stories about the most dangerous professions a man can put his hand
to and it was evident in each of them that he had done his research
by living those jobs himself or finding out from the men who did.
“The fascination with L. Ron Hubbard’s writing is that he
so thoroughly believed the ideas he was suggesting as future possibilities that the reader believed in them too. That takes good
writing, strong plots and creditable characterizations.
L. Ron Hubbard had all three talents spot on.” "L.
Ron Hubbard wrote some of the most gripping and imaginative fantasy
stories of the Golden Age of Pulps—Hubbard's work has influenced
generations of writers, and his stories are as lively and startling
as anything being written today."
"I'm reading Battlefield Earth now and I'm loving it!
I'm approaching the end and have sadly discovered that this is one
of 'those' books. In other words, a book that I don't want to end!
Hubbard has created a great sci-fi tapestry, full of the high adventure
that I love so much! Can't wait for more of Hubbard's classic stories
to be reprinted in your series." "I
read the first couple of chapters and could not believe what I read.
The words were like gold. The characters were so three dimensional.
I took the book everywhere I went and read it every chance I could
get. What impressed me was the easy and fluent way L. Ron Hubbard
brought these characters to life. The descriptions were so realistic
you could see and almost feel them. I have read the book two more
times, not to mention all the other books by L. Ron Hubbard that I've
read. When you find an author like Hubbard, the others seem to pale
by comparison." |
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