For several decades, pulps
sat on newstands alongside the comic books offering fantastic
adventures with larger than life heroes. For a dime, readers
could escape into these tales of adventure and intrigue. Some
writers of this era, such as Dashiell
Hammett or Robert
Heinlein, graduated from the pulps and became respected
authors.
L. Ron Hubbard opted to use his writing skills to create
Scientology.
After Hubbard's wife and ten other top Scientologists went
to prison for covert
operations against the United States government, Hubbard
went into hiding and returned to churning out sci-fi potboilers
such as Battlefield Earth.
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