Sarah Jane
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Podcast Appearances
This is something entirely other to that.
This is if the mayo is the main event.
It's not adding mayo.
The dish is mayo at that point.
But getting back to it, there was one area that Hubbard stood out above the rest.
One thing he was consistently good at throughout his life.
He was a great writer and he had a love of inventing wild, far-flinging adventure stories.
You want to go on an adventure?
And he began by writing stories for the student newspaper in both uni and high school.
At first, he'd mostly write action and adventure stories that were inspired by this alleged blood brothership with the Blackfeet tribe and these exploits that he announced and told very sort of exaggeratedly throughout Asia.
But he really found his knack in writing science fiction and fantasy books makes sense.
often exploring subjects like demons, mass extinctions, aliens, dictatorships, superhuman capabilities, paranoia and spirituality.
So when faced with his prospects for the future after leaving his nuclear physics degree, Hubbard undertook a new career as a pulp fiction writer, and quite a prolific one at that.
Across four years, he published hundreds of short stories and novels.
Bit of a Wattpad guy, right?
becoming this well-received writer.
Massively, like, very successful as a writer.
This is so funny because it seems so overt, right?
Like, this incredibly successful make-believe guy.
Anyway, what I wanted to do, actually, is read the bio of one of his most beloved series, Battlefield Earth.