Subject: Re: News-04-06: Co$ Propaganda 'Battlefield Earth'
From: XXXXXXXXXXX@aol.com
Date: 4/6/00 10:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time

Here are the 100 Best Writers of the 20th Century according to Writer's Digest, a legitimate, well known, well respected, magazine. All the Science Fiction writers are capitalized:

Maya Angelou

ISSAC ASIMOV

Margaret Atwood
W.H. Auden
Saul Bellow
Judy Blume
Jorge Luis Borges

RAY BRADBURY

Charles Bukowski
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Octavia E. Butler
Albert Camus
Truman Capote
Raymond Carver
Raymond Chandler
John Cheever
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Joseph Conrad
Roald Dahl
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ralph Ellison
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E.M. Forster
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Theodor Geisel
Allen Ginsberg
William Golding
Graham Greene
John Grisham
Alex Haley

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

HERMANN HESSE

Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston

ALDOUS HUXLEY

John Irving
James Joyce
Jack Kerouac
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Milan Kundera
D.H. Lawrence
Harper Lee
Ursula K. Le Guin
C.S. Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
Jack London
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Thomas Mann
W. Somerset Maugham
John McPhee
James A. Michener
Arthur Miller
Toni Morrison
Vladimir Nabokov
Pablo Neruda
Anais Nin
Flannery O'Connor

GEORGE ORWELL

Dorothy Parker
Sylvia Plath
Marcel Proust
Ernie Pyle

THOMAS PYNCHON

Ayn Rand
Tom Robbins
J.D. Salinger
Rod Serling
Shel Silverstein
Upton Sinclair
Danielle Steel
William Styron
Amy Tan
Hunter S. Thompson
J.R.R. Tolkien
John Updike

KURT VONNEGUT

Alice Walker
Edith Wharton
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Tennessee Williams
Tom Wolfe
Virginia Woolf
Herman Wouk
William Butler Yeats


I doubt many people who are still in Scientology have read anything by any of these authors. That is too bad...for them.

To even imagine Hubbard being on this list of luminaries is preposterous. This Bridge Publications ought to prove their claim with hard evidence, that Hubbard or any of his works have been read by anyone outside their organization. Otherwise their claim is a joke and they ought to be ashamed of themselves (when they snap out of it).

Enough said.

Still awaiting hearing results.