I downloaded this years ago and no longer have access to this title, I am sorry but I no longer intend to review it. Thank you.

Well, that was an fun/interesting, albeit short, read. A bit quirky with a rather abrupt ending that didn't exactly resolve much of what I wanted resolved in the end! I was rather taken with the main character (personality-wise) apart from his infatuation with Marion (but that could be the chains of the typewriter working there so, ho-hum).

A fun read and a great twist on the swashbuckling, pirate, steamy love tale. A must read for everyone who loves stories with a little twist.

Ron Hubbard gehört nun wahrlich nicht zu den Autoren der lustigen bis albernen ScienceFiction, aber in den Untiefen seines unmenschlich große Werkes fand sich eben glücklicherweise dieser wahrlich witzige kleine Roman über die Produktion von Lesefutter, die mit ihren satirischen Seitenhieben auf die Verlagsbranche der Leserin und dem Leser enormes Vergnügen bereitet. Dabei geht Hubbard gewohnt solide ans Werk und serviert seinem Publikum eine ausgefuchste Geschichte in der Geschichte, die uns einiges an Aufmerksamkeit und Schläue abverlangt, aber dafür auch riesengroßen Lesespaß bietet. Ich mag so etwas und empfehle das Buch mit großem Vergnügen weiter.

My primary image of L. Ron Hubbard being that of a narcissistic crook who founded a fake religion to make money, I was surprised to actually like this book. It's very much of its time - very little SF of the period aspired to high literary status - but it's surprisingly readable and would be fine to curl up with on a rainy weekend. There's a nice mixture of humour - oddly enough, poking fun at himself and his fellow pulp writers, reasonably well-researched historical background (although his Spanish is a tad dodgy), and a fairly mainstream swashbuckler. The twist is that the protagonist knows he's a character in a book. .Others since, notably Tom Holt, have run with this idea, so it's lost its surprise value, but it still makes for reasonable entertainment.