What L. Sprague de Camp wrote to Isaac Asimov in 1946 about Hubbard
Android Cat
Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, by George Pendle. Hahahaha!
p.271, Chapter 11, Rock Bottom:
Parsons' pursuit of Hubbard had been closely followed by Hubbard's fellow
science fiction writers. For L. Sprague de Camp, a Caltech graduate in
aeronautical engineering and now one of the most popular science fiction and
fantasy writers of the day, the events confirmed his already low opinion of
Hubbard. In a letter to Isaac Asimov, he wrote:
The more complete story of Hubbard is that he is now in Fla. living on his
yacht with a man-eating tigress named Betty-alias-Sarah, another of the same
kind ... He will probably soon thereafter arrive in these parts with
Betty-Sarah, broke, working the poor-wounded-veteran racket for all its
worth, and looking for another easy mark. Don't say you haven't been warned.
Bob [Robert Heinlein] thinks Ron went to pieces morally as a result of the
war. I think that's fertilizer, that he always was that way, but when he
wanted to conciliate or get something from somebody he could put on a good
charm act. What the war did was to wear him down to where he no longer
bothers with the act.
(L. Sprague de Camp, letter to Isaac Asimov, 27 August 1946.)
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L. Sprague de Camp later wrote the critical "El-Ron and the City of Brass"
about Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology, August 1975.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/oca/elron.html
According to rumour (which I hope to pin down), L. Sprague de Camp was
afterwards shuddered into silence on the topic by the usual methods.
Hubbard wouldn't want anyone who knew him back then telling it the way it
was, rather than Hubbard's pack of lies that the Guardians Office was
publishing.
There's plenty more in the book, but that one dead-accurate prediction made
my day!
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Ron of that ilk.
Larry T.
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But Ron:
What does this prove?
That is not to sound deft, but what does it mean?
That L. Ron Hubbard was or did or had what?
Larry
Android Cat
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> What does this prove?
>
> That is not to sound deft, but what does it mean?
>
> That L. Ron Hubbard was or did or had what?
It shows that some people saw right through Hubbard at the time, that he was
a fraud and a lowlife even then. (It's also nice to get confirmation that
Robert Heinlein was saying things about Hubbard in private.)
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Ron of that ilk.
Larry T.
Isn't Robert Heinlein really famous?
I thought that he was the one who wrote a lot of really well accepted
science fiction works, right?
Larry
Les Hemmings
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> Isn't Robert Heinlein really famous?
>
> I thought that he was the one who wrote a lot of really well accepted
> science fiction works, right?
>
> Larry
Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Stranger in a Strange Land
and Starship Troopers to name a few.
Oh to wake up on Tertius tended by Mama Maureen....
L
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Howard
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> Larry T. wrote:
> >
> > Isn't Robert Heinlein really famous?
> >
> > I thought that he was the one who wrote a lot of really well
> > accepted science fiction works, right?
> Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Stranger in
> a Strange Land and Starship Troopers to name a few.
>
> Oh to wake up on Tertius tended by Mama Maureen...
Heh. Access to the "Glory Road" universe would suit me.
Howard
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