L. Ron Hubbard created a broad range of fiction—including tales of action and adventure, mystery and suspense, the romantic Old West, as well as science fiction and fantasy.
They are, here, listed sequentially, as they appeared over more than five decades of one of the defining careers in American popular fiction.
1932
Tah
Grounded
The God Smiles
Submarine
1934
The Green God
Calling Squad Cars!
Pearl Pirate
Sea Fangs
Dead Men Kill
Twenty Fathoms Down
Mouthpiece
Yellow Loot
1935
Hurtling Wings
The Carnival of Death
The Phantom Patrol
The Trail of the Red Diamonds
The Red Dragon
Flame City
Destiny’s Drum
Brass Keys to Murder
The Squad that Never Came Back
The Drowned City
False Cargo
The Cossack
Man-Killers of the Air
Hostage to Death
Hell’s Legionnaire
The Contraband Crate
Yukon Madness
Under the Black Ensign
Medals for Mahoney
Buckley Plays a Hunch
The Sky Devil
Forbidden Gold
He Walked to War
Wind-Gone-Mad
Murder Afloat
The Black Sultan
Five Mex for a Million
The Adventure of “X”
Machine Gun 21,000
The Barbarians
1936
Trick Soldier
The Sky-Crasher
Starch & Stripes
Red Sand
The Price of a Hat
Hurricane
The Blow Torch Murder
Spy Killer
The Death Flyer
They Killed Him Dead
Loot of the Shanung
Escape for Three
The Mad Dog Murder
Sleepy McGee
Don’t Rush Me
The Grease Spot
The Headhunters
Sky Birds Dare!
The Slickers
The Baron of Coyote River
Mister Tidwell, Gunner
Golden Hell
Flaming Arrows
Tomb of the Ten Thousand Dead
The Big Cats
Black Towers to Danger
Mr. Luck
Deep-Sea Diver
Test Pilot
The No-Gun Gunhawk
River Driver
The Ethnologist
While Bugles Blow!
Fifty-Fifty O’Brien
Mine Inspector
The Shooter
Steeplejack
Flying Trapeze
1937
The Mountaineer
The Bold Dare All
The Battling Pilot
A Lesson in Lighting
Cattle King for a Day
The Crate Killer
All Frontiers Are Jealous
Buckskin Brigades
The Dive Bomber
Nine Lives
Reign of the Gila Monster
Red Death Over China
Gunman’s Tally
Cargo of Coffins
The Devil—With Wings
Tinhorn’s Daughter
Orders Is Orders
Six-Gun Caballero
Under the Diehard Brand
Arctic Wings
1938
The Toughest Ranger
Hot Lead Payoff
Killer Ape
Ride ’Em Cowboy
The Dangerous Dimension
King of the Gunmen
The Ghost Town Gun-Ghost
When Gilhooly Was in Flower
The Tramp
Boss of the Lazy B
The Lieutenant Takes the Sky
Branded Outlaw
Death Waits at Sundown
Come and Get It
Silent Pards
1939
Ruin at Rio Piedras
Empty Saddles
Trouble on His Wings
Wings Over Ethiopia
The Falcon Killer
The Ultimate Adventure
Hurricane’s Roar
Danger in the Dark
Slaves of Sleep
The Ghoul
The Ranch That No One Would Buy
If I Were You
The Professor Was a Thief
The Small Boss of Nunaloha
Death’s Deputy
The Indigestible Triton
Final Blackout
On Blazing Wings
Shadows from Boot Hill
Inky Odds
Fear
The Idealist
The Iron Duke
Sabotage in the Sky
The Kilkenny Cats
The Devil’s Rescue
One Was Stubborn
Typewriter in the Sky
The Traitor
The Crossroads
The Mutineers
The Case of the Friendly Corpse
Borrowed Glory
The Last Drop
1942
The Invaders
The Rebels
Strain
The Slaver
Space Can
The Beast
The Great Secret
1947
The Chee-Chalker
The End is Not Yet
Killer’s Law
Ole Doc Methuselah
1948
The Expensive Slaves
The Obsolete Weapon
The Magic Quirt
When Shadows Fall
The Great Air Monopoly
Her Majesty’s Aberration
Stacked Bullets
240,000 Miles Straight Up
1949
Forbidden Voyage
Gunman!
The Magnificent Failure
The Gunner from Gehenna
Gun Boss of Tumbleweed
Plague!
The Conroy Diary
Battle of Wizards
The Incredible Destination
A Sound Investment
The Unwilling Hero
Johnny, The Town Tamer
A Matter of Matter
Guns of Mark Jardine
Blood on His Spurs
Beyond the Black Nebula
The Planet Makers
The Automagic Horse
The Emperor of the Universe
Man for Breakfast
The Kingslayer
Stranger in Town
1950
A Can of Vacuum
Hoss Tamer
Ole Mother Methueslah
Beyond All Weapons
The Last Admiral
Devil’s Manhunt
To the Stars
Greed
The No-Gun Man
Vengeance is Mine!
Battling Bolto
Final Enemy
The Masters of Sleep
Tough Old Man
1981
The Were-Human
1982
Battlefield Earth
1985
Mission Earth, Volume 1: The Invaders Plan
1986
Mission Earth, Volume 2: Black Genesis
Mission Earth, Volume 3: The Enemy Within
Mission Earth, Volume 4: An Alien Affair
Mission Earth, Volume 5: Future of Fear
1987
Mission Earth, Volume 6: Death Quest
Mission Earth, Volume 7: Voyage of Vengeance
Mission Earth, Volume 8: Disaster
Mission Earth, Volume 9: Villainy Victorious
Mission Earth, Volume 10: The Doomed Planet
OTHER WORKS:
Screenplays adapted to novels1998
Ai! Pedrito! – When Intelligence Goes Wrong (novelized by Kevin J. Anderson)1999
A Very Strange Trip (novelized by Dave Wolverton)The L. Ron Hubbard library also contains over 100 unpublished stories and novelettes, some of which have appeared since the 1990s in select publications and magazines.









