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11. Hubbard was "very good" only by the standards of pulp writing

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 08:47 PM

Jan 2015

That is, he was fast, could be counted on to meet deadlines, and turned out acceptable product. But only a handful of his stories were better than mediocre and none of them were great.

I'll grant you the charm, though. By all accounts he could charm the socks off a rattlesnake, or however that old cliche goes.

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