Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis

Mo Holkar / UKG · 25 Nov 2008, 09:01 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar / UKG)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:01:04 +0000
Subject: (urth) Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis
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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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