The Great Secret
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Overview:
- Title: The Great Secret
- Author: L. Ron Hubbard
- Year: 2008
- ISBN-10: 9781592123711
- Publisher: Galaxy Press
- Price: $9.95
- Pages: x+121
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Slaver
- Notes:
- Date of publication from Amazon.com as of 2008-08-28.
- No numberline.
- None of the artwork is credited. Cover is a reprint by Earle Bergey from the December 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories and illustrates the story "The Fruits of Agathon" by Charles L. Harness, although this same issue contains the story "240,000 Miles Straight Up" by L. Ron Hubbard.
- Thanks to editors Rkihara for their entries that identified the artwork for "Space Can", "The Slaver" and "The Beast", and to Ahasuerus for "The Great Secret".
- Each illustration contains a quote from the story that it accompanies.
- Cover is designed like a dust jacket with front and back cover flaps.
- All non-fiction is undated as these pieces appear in each of Galaxy Press' reissues of Hubbard's work.
- "The Stories from the Golden Age" is a listing of stories in print by L. Ron Hubbard from Galaxy Press, and are listed by various genres.
- The untitled quote by L. Ron Hubbard is a full page in length, and is about writing and reading as adventuring.
- Contains a color insert on hard, glossy index card stock advertising the ability to subscribe to the "Stories from the Golden Age" series of Hubbard reprint collections.
- "Stories from the Golden Age" only appears on the back cover and on the listing of L. Ron Hubbard's in-print stories.