L. Ron Hubbard

If you liked Dune, Atlantis Gene, Foundation, Ender's Game, and Starship Troopers, you'll love Battlefield Earth. Sadistic Aliens... ...Man is an endangered species. Is it the end of the world or the rebirth of a new one? In the year A.D. 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland. The great cities stand crumbling as a brutal reminder of what we once were. When the Psychlos invaded, all the world’s armies mustered little resistance against the advanced alien weapons. Now, the man animals serve one purpose. Do the Psychlos’ bidding or face extinction. One man, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, has a plan. They must learn about the Psychlos and their weapons. He needs the other humans to follow him. And that may not be enough. Can he outwit his Psychlo captor, Terl? The fate of the Galaxy lies on the Battlefield of Earth.

A novel of compelling suspense. Professor James Lowry didn' believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember. Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning from the shadows: If you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die...

For almost four decades, L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests have discovered and nurtured the new stars of science fiction and fantasy, publishing their works and artwork in the annual anthology. Presenting 25 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators. Brilliant new worlds. Captivating new ideas. Powerful new stories of action, adventure, and fantasy Just imagine…It’s game on, the fate of the universe is on the line, and you’re about to go all in. Saving the mammoths is in your hands, can you conjure the magic to make it happen? You’ve got a monster BFF, whom you’re hiding from your own monster-hunting family. You’re part of a sting, out to catch some bar hoppers who are not only bending their elbows, but bending time as well. And much more! Think you’ve seen it all? Think again. Prepare for alien contact. Explore the darkest alleyways of urban fantasy. Rise to the dizzying heights of magical realism. These award-winning writers provide a diverse array of stories that will transport you and reshape your reality. Plus 3 Bonus Short Stories by David Farland • Frank Herbert • L. Ron Hubbard Contents: * Introduction by David Farland * The Illustrators of the Future Contest and the Importance of Art Direction by Echo Chernik * Art Gallery * Agatha’s Monster, by Azure Arther; Illustrated by Zaine Lodhi * The Magic Book of Accidental City Destruction: A Book Wizard’s Guide by Z. T. Bright; Illustrated by Ari Zaritsky * The Squid Is My Brother by Mike Jack Stoumbos; Illustrated by Natalia Salvador * Gallows by Desmond Astaire; Illustrated by Nick Jizba * Boos and Taboos by L. Ron Hubbard * The Professor Was a Thief by L. Ron Hubbard; Illustrated by Michael Talbot * Lilt of a Lark by Michael Panter; Illustrated by Brett Stump * The Mystical Farrago by N. V. Haskell; Illustrated by Annalee Wu * Tsuu, Tsuu, Kasva Suuremasse by Rebecca E. Treasure; Illustrated by Natalia Salvador * The Single Most Important Piece of Advice by Frank Herbert * The Daddy Box by Frank Herbert; Illustrated by André Mata * Teamwork: Getting the Best out of Two Writers by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson * The Island on the Lake by John Coming; Illustrated by Majid Saberinejad * The Phantom Carnival by M. Elizabeth Ticknor; Illustrated by Xiaomeng Zhang * The Last Dying Season by Brittany Rainsdon; Illustrated by Jerome Tieh * The Third Artist by Diane Dillon * A Word of Power by David Farland , Inspired by Bob Eggleton’s The Mammoth Leaders * The Greater Good by Em Dupre; Illustrated by Jim Zaccaria * For the Federation by J. A. Becker; Illustrated by Arthur M. Doweyko * Psychic Poker by Lazarus Black; Illustrated by Tenzin Rangdol * The Year in the Contests .

American pilot Mike Malloy has learned his lesson: when you join the French Foreign Legion, it’s best not to wipe the floor with two French officers . . . no matter how richly they deserve it. And it appears he has all the time in the world to think about it. He’s been sentenced to five years in a Moroccan penal battalion—which is French for death sentence.But Malloy, who could easily pass for actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is about to get a reprieve . . . if he’s willing to fly into the heart of the Sahara and into the teeth of a Berber rebellion.It’s an offer Malloy can’t refuse. All he has to do is fly two passengers into the desert and return with a book that disappeared 800 years ago. But as he’s a man who doesn’t go by the book, this expedition could turn out to have unexpected benefits. One of his passengers is a young American woman whose eyes are as beautiful and blue as the wild blue yonder. . . .Hubbard once said that writers too often “forget a great deal of the languorous quality which made the Arabian Nights so pleasing. Jewels, beautiful women, towering cities filled with mysterious shadows, sultans equally handy with robes of honor and the beheading sword . . . these things still exist, undimmed, losing no luster to the permeating Occidental flavor which reaches even the far corners of the earth today.” Hubbard brings this unique insight to his stories of North Africa and the Legionnaires, investing them with an authenticity of time, place and character that kept his readers asking for more.

Эта книга – один из трудов Л. Рона Хаббарда, основателя Дианетики (технологии духовного исцеления) и Саентологии (прикладной религиозной философии). Эта книга представлена читателю как отчёт о наблюдениях и исследованиях природы человеческого разума и духа, а не как претенциозные заявления автора. Только настойчивость самого читателя позволит достичь целей Дианетики и Саентологии и получить пользу от их применения. Книга «Дианетика» содержит открытия, о которых отзывались как о более революционных, чем изобретение колеса или открытие огня. Она остается бестселлером уже более 50 лет. Свыше 20 миллионов напечатанных экземпляров книги и вдохновляемое ею движение, охватывающее практически каждое государство на Земле, – все это бесспорно свидетельствует о том, что «Дианетика» наиболее читаемая и авторитетная книга, когда-либо написанная о человеческом разуме. Она содержит анатомию и полное описание реактивного ума – доселе неизвестного источника неуверенности, расстройств, ночных кошмаров и неразумных страхов, порабощающих человека.

In the year A.D. 3000, Earth is a barren wasteland, plundered of its natural resources by alien conquerors known as Psychlos. Fewer than thirty-five thousand humans survive in a handful of communities scattered across the face of a post-apocalyptic Earth.??   From the ashes of humanity rises a young hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Setting off on an initial quest to discover a hidden evil, Jonnie unlocks the mystery of humanity’s demise and unearths a crucial weakness in their oppressors. Spreading the seeds of revolt, Jonnie and a small band of survivors pit their quest for freedom in an all-out rebellion that erupts across the continents of Earth and the cosmic sprawl of the Psychlo empire.   For the fate of the Galaxy lies on the Battlefield of Earth.  “Over 1,000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens and noble humans. I found Battlefield Earth un-put-downable.”—Neil Gaiman??“Battlefield Earth is a terrific story! The carefully underplayed comedy I found delicious. A masterpiece.”—Robert A. Heinlein ??“Pulse-pounding mile-a-minute sci-fi action adventure that does not stop. It is a masterpiece of popular adventure science fiction.”—Brandon Sanderson“Space opera that hits the right notes. It's provocative, exhilarating and genuinely enjoyable.”—SCIFI.COM??  Awards and Accolades: Top 100 science fiction books Top three of the best 100 English language novels of the 20th century by the Random House Modern Library Readers Poll US Golden Scroll and Saturn Awards Tetradramma d'Oro Award Gutenberg Award Read the novel that changed the shape of science fiction Over 4,000,000 copies sold * Translated in 25 languages * 21st Century edition with Author Interview and Discussion Guide  An engaging read for STEM learning The imaginative diversity of the novel's characters and alien races, its military artifacts and striking technologies and mathematics make it the perfect motivation for STEM learning. "Want to get your kid excited about STEM? Battlefield Earth will give you the talking points, in fact, they'll already be talking about it." —S.G. Educator AR 5.8, 62 points (Accelerated Reader program) Lexile 780  

A monumental work -- acclaimed as agenuine masterpiece -- L. Ron Hubbard's 1.2-million-word-ten-volume MISSION EARTH dekalogy brilliantly blends science fiction and action/adventure on a vast interstellar scale with stinging satire -- in the literary tradition of Voltaire, Swift and Orwell -- on the world's foibles and fancies.A true publishing phenomenon -- precedent-setting when each volume, in turn, became a New York Times and then an international bestseller -- MISSION EARTH has already sold more than five million copies and continues to appear on bestseller lists in contries throghout the world. Winner of France's Cosmos 2000 Award and the Nova Science Fiction Award in Italy, and nominated for a Hugo Award, MISSION EARTH is an epic narrative of a secret invasion of Earth as seen-and vividly recounted -- by the aliens who, unrecognized, already live and work among us. It is a novel crowded with sharply memorable characters and with places and events cloaked in splendor, menace and mystery: Palace City, Joy City, the forbidden prison fortress of Spiteos, the violent fall of the Voltar Confederation. The Voltar Confederation has a long-range plan to use Earth as a strategic staging area in its continuing conquest of the galaxy. However, with the discovery that Earth is being destroyed by pollution, drugs and other menaces, Combat Engineer Jettero Heller is sent on a top-secret mission to save the planet from self-destruction. Unknown to Heller, another Voltarian faction (the Coordinated Information Apparatus) has secretly been using Earth as a supply base for drugs. It dispatches its own counter mission to thwart Heller's plans.