If I Were You (Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stories Collection) (English and English Edition)

By L. Ron Hubbard

Family pleasant Un-Adult-A-rated fun!  Does dimension matter?  is greater larger? That’s no small query to Tom Little—the circus midget with vast dreams. 

 
Tom could be king of the midgets, yet he’s received a long way grander ambitions—to develop into the muscleman on the most sensible, the ringmaster.  Now, drawing on a few darkish old secrets and techniques and mystic texts, he’s approximately to get his wish.  think a pint-sized Mickey Rooney on steroids, buying and selling up right into a physique like Burt Lancaster’s.  Then think paying the largest expense of all…. 

Assuming one other man’s identification, Tom discovers he should also tackle his sins, money owed, and enemies.  He can be dwelling large—but now there are those that have the desire to make him pay for the large man’s sins.

Throughout his younger lifestyles Hubbard used to be involved and intrigued via mysticism and magic.  From an outdated Blackfoot Indian medication guy in Montana to the final dwelling magician descendant of Kublai Khan in China, from the Chamorro natives of Guam to voodoo monitors in Haiti, he absorbed details and perception anyplace he could—putting all of it to incredible use in tales like this.

additionally contains The final Drop, an stunning story of a brand new York bartender who mixes a few very magical drinks—to remarkable effect.

 “Wonderfully wonderful ... first-class audio caliber, gifted performers, nice sound effects.” —School Library Journal

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Ron Hubbard Bernard Hubbel Michael Keith Rene Lafayette Legionnaire 148 Legionnaire 14830 Ken Martin Scott Morgan Lt. Scott Morgan Kurt von Rachen Barry Randolph Capt. Humbert Reynolds In proof of precisely that, through 1936 L. Ron Hubbard was once actually prime pulp fiction’s elite as president of latest York’s American Fiction Guild. contributors incorporated a veritable pulp corridor of status: Lester “Doc Savage” Dent, Walter “The Shadow” Gibson, and the mythical Dashiell Hammett—to cite yet a couple of. additionally in proof of simply the place L. Ron Hubbard stood inside of his first years at the American pulp circuit: by way of the spring of 1937, he used to be ensconced in Hollywood, adopting a Caribbean mystery for Columbia images, remembered this day because the mystery of Treasure Island. Comprising fifteen thirty-minute episodes, the L. Ron Hubbard screenplay ended in the main ecocnomic matinée serial in Hollywood heritage. In accord with Hollywood tradition, he was once thereafter always known as upon to rewrite/doctor scripts—most famously for long-time buddy and fellow adventurer Clark Gable. The 1937 mystery of Treasure Island, a fifteen-episode serial tailored for the display via L. Ron Hubbard from his novel, homicide at Pirate fortress. within the interim—and herein lies one other designated bankruptcy of the L. Ron Hubbard story—he consistently labored to open Pulp state gates to up-and-coming authors. Or, for that subject, an individual who wanted to write down. It used to be a reasonably unconventional stance, as markets have been already skinny and festival razor sharp. however the truth continues to be, it was once an L. Ron Hubbard hallmark that he vehemently lobbied on behalf of younger authors—regularly delivering tutorial articles to exchange journals, guest-lecturing to brief tale periods at George Washington collage and Harvard, or even founding his personal artistic writing pageant. It was once proven in 1940, dubbed the Golden Pen, and warranted winners either long island illustration and ebook in Argosy. however it used to be John W. Campbell Jr. ’s dazzling technology Fiction that eventually proved the main memorable LRH car. whereas each fan of L. Ron Hubbard’s galactic epics surely is familiar with the tale, it still bears repeating: by way of past due 1938, the pulp publishing mogul of highway & Smith was resolute to redesign superb technology Fiction for broader readership. particularly, senior editorial director F. Orlin Tremaine referred to as for tales with a better human point. while appearing editor John W. Campbell balked, who prefer his spaceship-driven stories, Tremaine enlisted Hubbard. Hubbard, in flip, responded with the genre’s first really character-driven works, in which heroes are pitted no longer opposed to bug-eyed monsters however the secret and majesty of deep area itself—and therefore used to be introduced the Golden Age of technological know-how Fiction. The names by myself are adequate to quicken the heart beat of any technological know-how fiction aficionado, together with LRH pal and protégé, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt and Ray Bradbury. additionally, whilst coupled with LRH tales of myth, we additional come to what’s rightly been defined because the origin of each glossy story of horror: L.

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