Event Marks Release of New Titles in Hubbard's Historic 80-Volume Stories from the Golden Age Book and Audiobook Series
NEW YORK, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In a packed hall, guests from New York's publishing industry honored author and explorer L. Ron Hubbard's February 19, 1940 membership into The Explorers Club and the release of four new titles in his Stories from the Golden Age series of books and audiobooks at the Club's headquarters Thursday night.
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The four titles: the fiction adventure, The Iron Duke; mystery, The Chee Chalker; military fiction, Orders Is Orders; and fantasy, Danger in the Dark--in bookstores March 2009--were announced by the president of Galaxy Press, John Goodwin, following a presentation of Mr. Hubbard's literary accomplishments by a representative from his literary agency, Ms. Gunhild Jacobs.
"L. Ron Hubbard exemplified the best values of what The Explorers Club means today," said Steve Nagiewicz, one of the evening's speakers and former Explorers Club executive director. Nagiewicz finished by presenting a plaque to Ms. Jacobs which was inscribed, "His true life exploration became page-turning adventures for generations of avid readers and so keeps adventure alive evermore."
Multiple New York Times' best-selling author and fellow Explorers Club member Kevin J. Anderson, as the evening keynote speaker, stated that he belonged "in the same writing camp as L. Ron Hubbard" and that he hoped "to put the spirit of exploration" into his stories as Hubbard did.
Guests were treated to a live performance of "The Professor Was a Thief," a humorous science fiction story by Hubbard originally published in 1940, the same month he became a member of the Club. Featured in the performance were George Guidall, (narrator of over 900 unabridged audiobooks); Emmy award-winner John Mariano (The Sopranos, West Wing, Desperate Housewives); Jim Meskimen (Frost/Nixon, The Grinch, Friends); and Josh Robert Thompson (the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson).
Hubbard's membership into The Explorers Club was part of a commitment to scientific expeditions and exploration by Hubbard begun in the 1930s and 1940s --taking him to the West Indies, Puerto Rico, and the Alaskan coastline (where he carried The Explorers Club flag to conduct radio experiments).
Already established as one of the top selling writers of high adventure, mystery, western, SF and Fantasy in the world of pulp fiction--with its 30 million monthly readers--the name L. Ron Hubbard (along with any of his 15 pen names), was regularly seen besides the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in those pulpwood pages. Hubbard used his experiences on expeditions to good effect. Wrote one editor of Thrilling Adventures magazine about how Hubbard got so much color into stories of faraway places: ". . . he's been there, brothers. He's been and seen and done, and plenty of all three of them!"
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SOURCE Galaxy Press
