Under the Black Ensign by L. Ron Hubbard was originally published in the August 1935 issue of Five Novels Monthly. Galaxy Press was republished a lot of the Pulp Magazines stories of the Golden age in book form.Being borned in the early '50's I just missed the Golden Age of stories in magazines. ...
Tom Bristol is a press-ganged sailor aboard a British naval ship in the Caribbean. An innocent mistake results in his being condemned to a flogging that will surely result in his death. When a pirate vessel interrupts his flogging and captures the British ship, Tom gladly joins the pirate band—an...
There seems to be an inordinately large number of detractors of this work of science fiction; that for my part seems undeserved. For me, I loved most everything about this book, the social commentary, the science fiction, the author’s conceived universe, the satire and comic relief, the pulse po...
The Mission Earth series is a big, bloated, fun and funny dekalogy* of pulp and satire and non-stop action. It's not a serious work, nor was it intended to be; I believe Hubbard wrote it simply out of fondness for the field, the way it was when he was beginning his career. He surely didn't need t...
The reviews here are largely based on the bipolar division into the scientology apologists, on the one hand, and the anti-scientology bigots, on the other hand. I consider myself neither.This book contains fabrications, inventions, unsubstantiated claims and outright falsehoods.It is the beginnin...
This is the second in a series of ten books about a double-crossing alien agent trying to foil plans for an invasion of Earth. It sounds interesting, but it's really no more than a vessel for Scientologist ideology and LRH's personal vendetta against the federal government. And while I'm not enti...
The Mission Earth series is a big, bloated, fun and funny dekalogy* of pulp and satire and non-stop action. It's not a serious work, nor was it intended to be; I believe Hubbard wrote it simply out of fondness for the field, the way it was when he was beginning his career. He surely didn't need t...
This could be the worst book I've ever read. At some point even a train wreck gets so bad that you want to turn your head and stop looking. The book starts out boring, gets hilariously bad, offensively bad, then probably another kind of bad that I haven't even imagined (I'm still reading it). ...