Such trendsetting L. Ron Hubbard classics of speculative fiction as Final Blackout, Fear, Typewriter in the Sky, the Hugo Award nominated To The Stars, as well as his capstone novels, the epic saga of the year 3000, Battlefield Earth, and the ten-volume Mission Earth® series, continue to appear on bestseller lists and to garner acclaim in countries around the world.

The single biggest science fiction novel in the history of the genre—and a perennial international bestseller for nearly two decades—Battlefield Earth was given hallmark recognition. It was in the introduction to this epic novel that L. Ron Hubbard expressed his own view of science fiction: "Science fiction does not come after the fact of a scientific discovery or development. It is the herald of possibility. It is the plea that someone should work on the future. Yet it is not prophecy. It is the dream that precedes the dawn when the inventor or scientist awakens and goes to his books or his lab saying, 'I wonder whether I could make that dream come true in the world of real science.'"