Cărți de L. Ron Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy stories who founded the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established a series of organizations to promote Dianetics. In 1952, Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics in bankruptcy proceedings, and he subsequently founded Scientology. Thereafter, Hubbard oversaw the growth of the Church of Scientology into a worldwide organization.
Born in Tilden, Nebraska, in 1911, Hubbard spent much of his childhood in Helena, Montana. After his father was posted to the U.S. naval base on Guam, Hubbard traveled to Asia and the South Pacific in the late 1920s. In 1930, Hubbard enrolled at George Washington University to study civil engineering but dropped out in his second year. He began his career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories and married Margaret "Polly" Grubb, who shared his interest in aviation.
Hubbard was an officer in the Navy during World War II, where he briefly commanded two ships but was removed from command both times. The last few months of his active service were spent in a hospital, being treated for a variety of complaints.
Scientology became increasingly controversial during the 1960s and came under intense media, government and legal pressure in a number of countries. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Hubbard spent much of his time at sea on his personal fleet of ships as "Commodore" of the Sea Organization, an elite quasi-paramilitary group of Scientologists.
Hubbard returned to the United States in 1975 and went into seclusion in the California desert after an unsuccessful attempt to take over the town of Clearwater, Florida. In 1978, Hubbard was convicted of fraud after he was tried in absentia by France. In the same year, eleven high-ranking members of Scientology were indicted on 28 charges for their role in the Church's Snow White Program, a systematic program of espionage against the United States government. One of the indicted was Hubbard's wife Mary Sue Hubbard, who was in charge of the program; L. Ron Hubbard was named an unindicted co-conspirator.
Hubbard spent the remaining years of his life in seclusion in a luxury motorhome on a ranch in California, attended to by a small group of Scientology officials. He died at age 74 in January 1986. Following Hubbard's death, Scientology leaders announced that his body had become an impediment to his work and that he had decided to "drop his body" to continue his research on another plane of existence. Though many of Hubbard's autobiographical statements have been found to be fictitious, the Church of Scientology describes Hubbard in hagiographic terms and rejects any suggestion that its account of Hubbard's life is not historical fact.
The Red Dragon
Brass Keys to Murder
Mission Earth 1, The Invaders Plan
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 38
Voyage of Vengeance
240,000 Miles Straight Up
To the Stars
The Invaders Plan: Mission Earth Volume 1
Black Genesis: Mission Earth Volume 2
An Alien Affair: Mission Earth Volume 4
Fortune of Fear: Mission Earth Volume 5
Death Quest: Mission Earth Volume 6
Disaster: Mission Earth Volume 8
Villainy Victorious: Mission Earth Volume 9
Buckskin Brigades: An Authentic Adventure of Native American Blood and Passion
Fear
Slaves of Sleep & the Masters of Sleep
Final Blackout
Writers of the Future Volume 31
Spy Killer
Under the Black Ensign
Branded Outlaw
Mission Earth 5, Fortune of Fear
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 35
Writers of the Future Vol 33
Battlefield Earth
Writers of the Future 32: The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
The Slickers: In Which a Western Lawmen Cracks Down on Crime . . . in Manhattan
Fifty-Fifty O'Brien: A U.S. Marine Sniper in One Hell of a War with One Shot to Survive
Tinhorn's Daughter
The Bold Dare All
Forbidden Gold: An Adventure in Love and Money and the Desire for More
The No-Gun Man: A Frontier Tale of Outlaws, Lawlessness, and One Man's Code of Honor
Mister Tidwell Gunner: A 19th Century Seafaring Saga of War, Self-Reliance, and Survival
Arctic Wings
Loot of the Shanung
The Green God
One Was Stubborn
Black Towers to Danger
The Lieutenant Takes the Sky
The Sky Devil
King of the Gunmen
Trick Soldier
Gun Boss of Tumbleweed
Writers of the Future Volume 29
The Black Sultan
The Dive Bomber: A High-Flying Adventure of Love and Danger
The Devil-With Wings
Gunman's Tally
Mouthpiece
Trouble on His Wings
Death Waits at Sundown
Sky Birds Dare!
The Tramp
Shadows from Boot Hill
Hurricane
Greed
The Phantom Patrol
The Falcon Killer
Tomb of the Ten Thousand Dead
Writers of the Future, Volume 27
Hell's Legionnaire
On Blazing Wings
The Carnival of Death: A Case of Killer Drugs and Cold-Blooded Murder on the Midway
The Headhunters
Devil's Manhunt
The Trail of the Red Diamonds
Cattle King for a Day
Hurtling Wings
All Frontiers Are Jealous
Sea Fangs
A Matter of Matter
The Crossroads
Destiny's Drum
The Baron of Coyote River
Golden Hell
Yukon Madness
Dead Men Kill
Wind-Gone-Mad
Under the Diehard Brand
Hostage to Death
The Sky-Crasher
Writers of the Future, Volume 25
Cargo of Coffins
Sabotage in the Sky
The Professor Was a Thief
Six-Gun Caballero
Twenty Fathoms Down
Inky Odds
Man-Killers of the Air
When Shadows Fall
The Iron Duke
The Chee-Chalker
Orders Is Orders
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