WRITING BATTLEFIELD EARTH:
THE TALE OF AN ALL-TIME BESTSELLER

One of the bestselling — and the single biggest — science fiction novels of all time,
L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth, was written in just 8 months two decades ago to mark his 50th year as a professional. A profile of the book's popularity as it begins the 21st Century by selling over 1,000,000 copies in the year 2000 — 18 years after it was first published — and vivid insights into the scope of L. Ron Hubbard's life and career are highlighted in the newest issue of the ASI Magazine.

The magazine is published by Author Services, Inc., the Hollywood, California based organization representing the rights to all L. Ron Hubbard's literary works.

Key articles in the current issue explore Battlefield Earth's milestone bestseller pace as the epic story of alien conquest and human rebellion in the year 3000 A.D. has set new records as #1 on Barnes & Noble's 2000 trade paperback science fiction bestseller list, in the top five — with J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit — on USA Today's 2000 science fiction/fantasy bestseller tally — and surged to over 6,520,000 copies sold in 24 languages in over 50 countries.

Voted the #1 science fiction novel of the 20th Century by the American Book Readers Association, the 3rd best of all English language novels of the last 100 years in the Modern Library Readers' Poll, and one of the top three science fiction books of all time (with Dune and Stranger in Strange Land) in a benchmark Waldenbooks national poll, Battlefield Earth has appeared on over 500 bestseller lists — and still counting — since its breakaway New York Times and international bestselling hardcover debut in October 1982.

The magazine also brings into striking, fresh focus the wide-ranging dimensions of
L. Ron Hubbard's career as a fiction writer, with over 17 million words published in 253 novels and short stories — from the landmark Mission Earth series to the suspense-horror classic, Fear, acknowledged for its trendsetting influence by writers from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King — and more than 146 million copies of his works sold.

A previously unpublished L. Ron Hubbard story, and a colorful up close look at the 16th 
annual Achievement Awards for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest for beginning writers and illustrators of science fiction and fantasy are other premier features of the current ASI Magazine.

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