A Golden Age Master writes a
best-selling science fiction
epic of
compelling suspense, action and drama.
L.
Ron Hubbard's remarkable writing career spanned more than half a century of
intense literary achievement and creative influence.
Though he was first and foremost a writer, his life experiences and travels in all corners of the globe were wide and diverse. His insatiable curiosity and personal belief that one should live life as a professional led to a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishment. He was also an explorer and ethnologist, mariner, pilot, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, educator, composer and musician.
Growing
up in the rugged frontier country of Montana, Ron broke his first bronc and
became the blood brother of a Blackfoot Indian medicine man by the age of ten.
In 1927, when he was sixteen, he traveled to a still-remote Asia. The following
year, to further satisfy his thirst for adventure and augment his growing
knowledge of other cultures, he left school and returned to the Orient. On his
trip, he worked as a supercargo and helmsman aboard a coastal trader that plied
the seas between Japan and Java. He came to know old Shanghai, Beijing and the
western hills at a time when few Westerners could enter China. He traveled more
than a quarter of a million miles by sea and land while still a teenager and
before the advent of commercial aviation as we know it.
He returned to the United States in the autumn of 1929 to complete his formal
education. He entered The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,
where he studied engineering and took one of the earliest courses in atomic and
molecular physics. In addition to his studies, he was the secretary of the
Engineering Society and president of the Flying Club, and wrote articles,
stories and plays for the university newspaper. During the same period he also
barnstormed across the American Midwest and was a national correspondent and
photographer for the Sportsman Pilot magazine, one of the most
distinguished aviation publications of its day.
Returning to his classroom of the world in 1932, he led two
separate expeditions, the first being the Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition,
sailing on one of the last of America's 
four-masted
commercial ships, and the second, a mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico. His
exploits earned him membership in the renowned Explorers Club and he
subsequently carried their coveted flag on two more voyages of exploration and
discovery. As a master mariner licensed to operate ships on any ocean, his
life-long love of the sea was reflected in the many ships he captained and the
skill of the crews he trained. He also served with distinction as a U.S. naval
officer during the Second World War.
All of this-and much more-found its way into his writing and
gave his stories a compelling sense of authenticity that has appealed to readers
throughout the world.
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