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    Hurtling Wings: Hurtling Wings
    Hurtling Wings: Hurtling Wings
    Hurtling Wings: Hurtling Wings
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    Hurtling Wings: Hurtling Wings

    By L. Ron Hubbard

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    Cast Spencer Tracy as Speed Kyle, master-builder of the hottest, fastest planes around. Then give the role of Cal Bradley, daredevil test pilot who pushes those planes to the limit, to a young hotshot like Tony Curtis. Add Grace Kelly as Speed’s blond bombshell daughter who fears that Cal will go too far—and you’ve got a winner.

    And as far as Speed and Cal are concerned, winning is everything. Speed’s company is bleeding cash, and they need money quick. They’re competing in the upcoming National Air Meet, and to the victor goes the spoils—some extremely lucrative contracts.

    But there’s sabotage in the air and love on the ground—and together they make a very volatile mix. If you love fast planes, fast action and unforgettable women, grab onto Hurtling Wings and hold on for dear life.

    As a barnstorming pilot in the early days of aviation, Hubbard was dubbed “Flash” Hubbard by the aviation magazines of the day. He covered air meets and the latest developments in aviation, advising pilots on flying in adverse conditions. His unique and pioneering insight of flight streaks across the page in novels like Hurtling Wings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGalaxy Press
    Release dateAug 23, 2010
    ISBN9781592125753
    Hurtling Wings: Hurtling Wings
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    L. Ron Hubbard

    Mit 19 Bestsellern der New York Times und mehr als 250 Millionen Exemplaren seiner Werke im Umlauf gehört L. Ron Hubbard zu den anerkanntesten und meistgelesenen Schriftstellern unserer Zeit. Als ein Hauptakteur der amerikanischen Pulp-Fiction der 1930er und 40er ist er außerdem einer der einflussreichsten Autoren der Moderne. Tatsächlich gibt es kaum einen Meister der fantasievollen Geschichten, von Ray Bradbury bis Stephen King, der L. Ron Hubbard nicht Tribut gezollt hat. Zur Feier seines 50-jährigen Jubiläums als Autor tritt er wieder an die Spitze der Populärliteratur, mit seinen monumentalen Epen Kampf um die Erde und der 10-bändigen Serie Mission Erde. Zusammen dominierten diese Titel die internationalen Bestsellerlisten für mehr als 200 Wochen und verbleiben unter den Rekord-Klassikern der modernen Science-Fiction.

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      Hurtling Wings - L. Ron Hubbard

      SELECTED FICTION WORKS

      BY L. RON HUBBARD

      FANTASY

      The Case of the Friendly Corpse

      Death’s Deputy

      Fear

      The Ghoul

      The Indigestible Triton

      Slaves of Sleep & The Masters of Sleep

      Typewriter in the Sky

      The Ultimate Adventure

      SCIENCE FICTION

      Battlefield Earth

      The Conquest of Space

      The End Is Not Yet

      Final Blackout

      The Kilkenny Cats

      The Kingslayer

      The Mission Earth Dekalogy*

      Ole Doc Methuselah

      To the Stars

      ADVENTURE

      The Hell Job series

      WESTERN

      Buckskin Brigades

      Empty Saddles

      Guns of Mark Jardine

      Hot Lead Payoff

      A full list of L. Ron Hubbard’s

      novellas and short stories is provided at the back.

      *Dekalogy—a group of ten volumes

      TitlePgArt.jpg

      Published by

      Galaxy Press, LLC

      7051 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 200

      Hollywood, CA 90028

      © 2007 L. Ron Hubbard Library. All Rights Reserved.

      Any unauthorized copying, translation, duplication, importation or distribution, in whole or in part, by any means, including electronic copying, storage or transmission, is a violation of applicable laws.

      Mission Earth is a trademark owned by L. Ron Hubbard Library and is used with permission. Battlefield Earth is a trademark owned by Author Services, Inc. and is used with permission.

      Horsemen illustration from Western Story Magazine is © and ™ Condé Nast Publications and is used with their permission. Fantasy, Far-Flung Adventure and Science Fiction illustrations: Unknown and Astounding Science Fiction copyright © by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Penny Publications, LLC. Story Preview illustration: Argosy Magazine is © 1936 Argosy Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with permission from Argosy Communications, Inc.

      ISBN 978-1-59212-575-3 ePub version

      ISBN 978-1-59212-765-8 Kindle version

      ISBN 978-1-59212-285-1 print version

      ISBN 978-1-59212-303-2 audiobook version

      Contents

      FOREWORD

      HURTLING WINGS

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      CHAPTER SIX

      CHAPTER SEVEN

      CHAPTER EIGHT

      STORY PREVIEW:

      ON BLAZING WINGS

      GLOSSARY

      L. RON HUBBARD

      IN THE GOLDEN AGE

      OF PULP FICTION

      THE STORIES FROM THE

      GOLDEN AGE

      FOREWORD

      Stories from Pulp Fiction’s Golden Age

      AND it was a golden age.

      The 1930s and 1940s were a vibrant, seminal time for a gigantic audience of eager readers, probably the largest per capita audience of readers in American history. The magazine racks were chock-full of publications with ragged trims, garish cover art, cheap brown pulp paper, low cover prices—and the most excitement you could hold in your hands.

      Pulp magazines, named for their rough-cut, pulpwood paper, were a vehicle for more amazing tales than Scheherazade could have told in a million and one nights. Set apart from higher-class slick magazines, printed on fancy glossy paper with quality artwork and superior production values, the pulps were for the rest of us, adventure story after adventure story for people who liked to read. Pulp fiction authors were no-holds-barred entertainers—real storytellers. They were more interested in a thrilling plot twist, a horrific villain or a white-knuckle adventure than they were in lavish prose or convoluted metaphors.

      The sheer volume of tales released during this wondrous golden age remains unmatched in any other period of literary history—hundreds of thousands of published stories in over nine hundred different magazines. Some titles lasted only an issue or two; many magazines succumbed to paper shortages during World War II, while others endured for decades yet. Pulp fiction remains as a treasure trove of stories you can read, stories you can love, stories you can remember. The stories were driven by plot and character, with grand heroes, terrible villains, beautiful damsels (often in distress), diabolical plots, amazing places, breathless romances. The readers wanted to be taken beyond the mundane, to live adventures far removed from their ordinary lives—and the pulps rarely failed to deliver.

      In that regard, pulp fiction stands in the tradition of all memorable literature. For as history has shown, good stories are much more than fancy prose. William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas—many of the greatest literary figures wrote their fiction for the readers, not simply literary colleagues and academic admirers. And writers for pulp magazines were no exception. These publications reached an audience that dwarfed the circulations of today’s short story magazines. Issues of the pulps were scooped up and read by over thirty million avid readers each month.

      Because pulp fiction writers were often paid no more than a cent a word, they had to become prolific or starve. They also had to write aggressively. As Richard Kyle, publisher and editor of Argosy, the first and most long-lived of the pulps, so pointedly explained: The pulp magazine writers, the best of them, worked for markets that did not write for critics or attempt to satisfy timid advertisers. Not having to answer to anyone other than their readers, they wrote about human beings on the edges of the unknown, in those new lands the future would explore. They wrote for what we would become, not for what we had already been.

      Some of the more lasting names that graced the pulps include H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Max Brand, Louis L’Amour, Elmore Leonard, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, John D. MacDonald, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein—and, of course, L. Ron Hubbard.

      In a word, he was among the most prolific and popular writers of the era. He was also the most enduring—hence this series—and certainly among the most legendary. It all began only months after he first tried his hand at fiction, with L. Ron Hubbard tales appearing in Thrilling Adventures, Argosy, Five-Novels Monthly, Detective Fiction Weekly, Top-Notch, Texas Ranger, War Birds, Western Stories, even Romantic Range. He could write on any subject, in any genre, from jungle explorers to deep-sea divers, from G-men and gangsters, cowboys and flying aces to mountain climbers, hard-boiled detectives and spies. But he really began to shine when he turned his talent to science fiction and fantasy of which he authored nearly fifty novels or novelettes to forever change the shape of those genres.

      Following in the tradition of such famed authors as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, Ron Hubbard actually lived adventures that his own characters would have admired—as an ethnologist among primitive tribes, as prospector and engineer in hostile climes, as a captain of vessels on four oceans. He even wrote a series of articles for Argosy, called Hell Job, in which he lived and told of the most dangerous professions a man could put his hand to.

      Finally, and just for good measure, he was also an accomplished photographer, artist, filmmaker, musician and educator. But he was first and foremost a writer, and that’s the L. Ron Hubbard we come to know through the pages of this volume.

      This library of Stories from the Golden Age presents the best of L. Ron Hubbard’s fiction from the heyday of storytelling, the Golden Age of the pulp magazines. In these eighty volumes, readers are treated to a full banquet of 153 stories, a kaleidoscope of tales representing every imaginable genre: science fiction, fantasy, western, mystery, thriller, horror, even romance—action of all kinds and in all places.

      Because the pulps themselves were printed on such inexpensive paper with high acid content, issues were not meant to endure. As the years go by, the original issues of every pulp from Argosy through Zeppelin Stories continue crumbling into brittle, brown dust. This library preserves the L. Ron Hubbard tales from that era, presented with a distinctive look that brings back the nostalgic flavor of those times.

      L. Ron Hubbard’s Stories from the Golden Age has something for every taste, every reader. These tales will return you to a time when fiction was good clean entertainment and the most fun a kid could have on a rainy afternoon or the best thing an adult could enjoy after a long day at work.

      Pick up a volume, and remember what reading is supposed to be all about. Remember curling up with a great story.

      —Kevin J. Anderson

      KEVIN J. ANDERSON is the author of more than ninety critically acclaimed works of speculative fiction, including The Saga of Seven Suns, the continuation of the Dune Chronicles with Brian Herbert, and his New York

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