Frequently Asked Questions

The 1930s and 1940s were a vibrant time for a gigantic audience of over 30 million readers each month—probably the largest per capita audience of readers in American history. It was before television or paperback novels and the magazine racks were chock-full of publications made with cheap pulp-wood paper, low cover prices—and the most excitement you could hold in your hands. “Pulp” magazines were filled with stories driven by plot and character and their authors were real storytellers who were interested in taking their readers beyond the mundane, to live adventures far removed from their ordinary lives. Some of the more lasting names of this Golden Age include H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Max Brand, Louis L’Amour, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein—and of course, L. Ron Hubbard.

To date, Mr. Hubbard’s fiction works have been translated into 27 languages and published and/or distributed in 92 countries.
Galaxy Press has embarked upon a very expansive project to translate the full L. Ron Hubbard fiction library into major languages beginning with Spanish, Italian and Russian. These will be followed by German, French, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese.
As we expand these markets and beyond, we will of course be working to establish publishing and distribution partners and lines into the various countries.

Mr. Hubbard authored and published more than 200 short stories, novellas and novels under his own name and 15 pen names. His published works from pulp fiction’s golden age encompassed adventure, detective, science fiction, western and fantasy works. Upon his return to fiction in 1983, he authored New York Times bestselling novels, Battlefield Earth and Mission Earth. He also wrote several screenplays, two of which, Ai! Pedrito! and A Very Strange Trip, were later novelized.

His works are appropriate for young adult readers on up. As a world traveler at a very young age, Mr. Hubbard gained an understanding of people that enabled him to appeal to readers of all ages and types. From librarians, teachers and students, to astronauts, the military and truckers, to grandparents, parents and young adults, Mr. Hubbard has been routinely lauded for his ability to deliver high-interest, action packed stories.

L. Ron Hubbard’s first commercially published short story was “The Green God,” appearing in the February 1934 edition of Thrilling Adventures. 2014 marked his 80th anniversary as a professional writer.

L. Ron Hubbard’s first novel was Buckskin Brigades published in August 1937 by The Macaulay Company and reviewed at the time by the New York Times Book Review stating, “Mr. Hubbard has reversed a time-honored formula and has given a thriller to which, at the end of every chapter or so, another paleface bites the dust … an enthusiasm, even a freshness and sparkle, decidedly rare in this type of romance.”

Mr. Hubbard began writing science fiction in 1938. At the time he was called to the offices of Street & Smith, the publisher of Astounding Science Fiction, where he was asked to bring his style of storytelling to the genre of science fiction, writing about people, not just ray guns, machines and robots. And there he was introduced to editor John W. Campbell, Jr. and shortly thereafter saw publication of his first science fiction story, “The Dangerous Dimension,” published in the July 1938 edition of Astounding Science Fiction.

No. While L. Ron Hubbard is attributed by many for his work in reshaping the science fiction genre, including Robert Heinlein calling Final Blackout one of the most perfect pieces of science fiction ever written, and Jerry Pournelle claiming To the Stars as one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written, he was as equally adept in any of the other popular genres he wrote in.