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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Öjevind Lång wrote:   
      
   > "Steve Hayes"  skrev i meddelandet   
   > news:ebmji5dggkicd8tve1kcgpno9df0fb539s@4ax.com...   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:39:19 -0400, Derek Broughton   
   >>  wrote:   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >>>I think someone is getting confused with L. Ron Hubbard, who while a   
   >>>better   
   >>>fiction writer than a prophet, is still not in Haggard's class :-)   
   >>   
   >> Possibly.   
   >>   
   >> Elron's "Dianetics: the modern science of mental health" must be on the   
   >> top   
   >> ten list of most boring science fiction works ever written.   
   >   
   > Yes, but before Hubbard went into the fake religion racket, he wrote some   
   > quite good science fiction stories.   
      
   And I'm certain Battlefield Earth wasn't _nearly_ as bad as the film.  That   
   made Peter Jackson look like a paragon of virtue.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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