“You might have noticed that I am intensely wary of becoming any kind of a story specialist…. I have sold the gamut of types: air-war, air, western, detective, love, terror.…
“My one passion is to build a name for variety…. I like my freedom. I fight hard for independent individualism. I love to tie into a yarn and try to make it blaze in print.” —L. Ron Hubbard
More than 200 short stories, novellas, and novels first appeared in print between 1932 and 1999. These included the perennial and New York Times bestsellers Battlefield Earth, Mission Earth, Fear, Final Blackout, To the Stars, as well as his Stories from the Golden Age spanning the genres from action & adventure, mystery & suspense, science fiction & fantasy, to historical fiction and the classic western.