L RON HUBBARD CONTEST CLOSED EARLY SERIAL

Hubbard recalls, the executives called in John W. Photo by Hubert Rogers.ДЄt that point in the meeting, Mr. As he recollected later, being a successful writer in other genres was hardly a reason to say no to the biggest publisher of the day.

But Street & SmithвЂ™s leadership insisted: that was exactly why they were turning to him. He didnвЂ™t write about ray guns, machines or robots, he told the executives (although many years later he did write a story about robots and mistaken identities- вЂњBattling BoltoвЂќ-for another magazine). Ron Hubbard wasnвЂ™t immediately receptive to the idea. They knew it from his work generally, and from the work he had produced for their own magazines, Top-Notch, Western Story and Wild West Weekly. Ron Hubbard could write powerfully and discerningly about people. Street & SmithвЂ™s top brass knew that in this kind of competitive climate вЂњyou had to have people in stories.вЂќ They knew with certainty, as well, that L. The pall of the Depression still hovered grayly over the country and the competition for reader loyalties from other magazines, including those in Street & SmithвЂ™s own vast stable, was fierce.

L RON HUBBARD CONTEST CLOSED EARLY SERIAL

One of their magazines was adrift in perilously competitive waters with its stories about вЂњmachines and machinery.вЂќ The publishing giant had tried everything, even serial name changes from Astounding Stories of Super-Science to Astounding Stories, and finally, with the March 1938 issue, to the name by which it would come to dominate the field, Astounding Science Fiction. What the Street & Smith executives wanted became quickly apparent. You arrived, you sat there obediently, and you spoke when you were spoken to.вЂќ

вЂњIn those days when the top brass of a publishing company-particularly one as old and prestigious as Street and Smith-вЂinvitedвЂ™ a writer to visit, it was like being commanded to appear before the king or receiving a court summons. I was quite ignorant of the field and regarded it, in fact, a bit diffidently. Campbell, Jr., a day in the very dawn of what has come to be known as The Golden Age of science fiction. вЂњIt will probably be best to return to the day in 1938 when I first entered this field, the day I met John W. Ron Hubbard himself in the introduction to his science fiction epic, Battlefield Earth: How this transformation came about is nowhere better described than by L. The reverberations of that invitation continue to this day. Not bad for a young writer whose first commercially published fiction had appeared only three years before.Д«y the spring of 1938, with his now well-established stature as a writer-or, in the words of author and critic Robert Silverberg, as a вЂњmaster of the art of narrativeвЂќ-L.В Ron Hubbard was invited to apply his gifts for succinct characterization, original plot, deft pacing, and imaginative action to a genre that was new, and essentially foreign to him-science fiction and fantasy. Ron Hubbard had proven he could glide with ease from genre to genre-adventure, western, mystery, detective, and even romance-and was regularly featured in such acknowledged вЂњcrown jewelsвЂќ of the pulp fiction world as Adventure and Argosy magazines.

L ron hubbard contest closed early