For years a tireless and nearly always broke pulp action-writer (during one six-week period, reports Miller, he wrote a short story of between 4,500 and 20,000 words a day), Hubbard achieved fame when he turned to science fiction in the late 30's, and money-drenched notoriety when he established the ""science"" of Dianetics-Scientology in embryo-in the 50's. That Hubbard enjoys a shadowy life after death fits the almost inhuman energy, will, and cunning with which he rampaged through seven decades-from his birth in 1911 to a middle-class Nebraska family to this demise in 1986 as a multimillionaire in hiding from the feds. Ron Hubbard ever come to a close? Years after his death, great indigestible chunks of his ten-part science-fiction epic (Mission Earth) continue to stuff bookstore racks, and thousands of his Scientology drones still haunt train stations and malls spreading his eccentric gospel. In this jaw-dropping biography, Miller (Bunny: The Real Story of Playboy, 1985 The House of Getty, 1986) throws floodlights on the extravagant life of the century's premier spiritual con-man.
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