Author of Fiction


No less acclaimed was the Mission Earth series with the Cosmos 2000 Award from French readers and the Nova Science Fiction Award from Italy’s National Committee for Science Fiction and Fantasy (a particular honor inasmuch as Mr. Hubbard was the first non-Italian to receive the award). The series was also notable for the fact that every one of its ten volumes immediately rose to international bestseller lists, even the succeeding nine released posthumously. In fact, along with his nonfiction works, Mr. Hubbard had 21 consecutive international bestsellers in the 1980s and 1990s, a feat unmatched in publishing history. Both Mission Earth and Battlefield Earth have further become the model work in several colleges and universities, including the L. Ron Hubbard wing of Moscow University’s Gorky Library.