One Was Stubborn
Three Classic Science Fiction Adventures of Reality, Space and the Race to the Moon
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EVERYONE AGREES REALITY IS AN ILLUSION. ONE STUBBORN MAN REFUSES TO LET THE WORLD DISAPPEAR.
A new guru has convinced the world that thought creates reality—and that the physical universe can simply be wished away. Nearly everyone accepts the idea. Shellback does not.
As people, places and solid ground begin to vanish, one stubborn old man clings to the unfashionable belief that reality ought to stay put. To save what remains, he will have to outlast a movement built on belief itself—and confront the man who expects to be the last mind standing.
The world is disappearing.
Belief has become power.
And stubbornness may be the only thing solid enough to stop it.
Funny, provocative and delightfully strange, One Was Stubborn is classic science fiction built around a reality-bending what-if—paired with two more adventures of space-station mischief and lunar intrigue.
Three complete science fiction adventures in one volume. Also included are:
A Can of Vacuum — A newly commissioned ensign is sent on a classic space-station fool’s errand—to fetch a can of vacuum—and comes back with an answer no one expected.
240,000 Miles Straight Up — A hard-drinking young officer is pulled into a Cold War race to the Moon where national humiliation, secret bases and lunar danger turn one mission into a struggle for power.
“The prime story focuses on the future, in which a man refuses to follow a new guru who proselytizes his belief that thought is what creates and maintains reality. The protagonist must escape, even if that means going into the past.”—AudioFile
Bringing his gift for storytelling to science fiction, L. Ron Hubbard crafted fast-moving tales where big speculative ideas become human problems—filled with adventure, ingenuity, humor, danger and unexpected reversals.
Part of the L. Ron Hubbard Science Fiction Collection—6 books featuring 20 classic science fiction stories—available in paperback, eBook and full-cast dramatized audiobook. Discover complete science fiction adventures spanning space travel, alien worlds, strange technologies, time travel and surprising possibilities.
Enjoy both the book and the audiobook. Also available as a professionally produced, full-cast dramatized audiobook.
L. Ron Hubbard
With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 230 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.
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