Over the broad spectrum of his professional career, all of this—and more—found its way unforgettably into his writing, giving his stories a compelling authenticity and an exciting sense of the textures of life, or of the way things credibly might be in some possible future or alternate dimension or in the deep vaults of space, that continue to captivate and engross readers everywhere.

Beginning with the publication in 1934 of The Green God, his first adventure yarn, in one of the hugely popular all-story "pulp" magazines of the day, L. Ron Hubbard's outpouring of fiction was prodigious—often exceeding a million words a year. Ultimately, he produced more than 250 published works of fiction—including 15 New York Times bestsellers—in virtually every major genre, from action and adventure, western and romance, to mystery and suspense, and, of course, science fiction and fantasy.