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From: nep.pgelhausen@ames-vmsb.ARPA
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Subject: re: Scientology and stories
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 12:38:15 EDT
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From: nep.pgelhausen@ames-vmsb.ARPA


(about scientology)
> ....to a cult featured in a Norman Spinrad book, 'The Mind Game'.  The
> novel concenrs a hack sf author who finds that a novel he has written
> is the basis for a cult.  He takes over the cult...

This msg implied a level of parallelism between this novel & L. Ron H.
This may be...but I don't think he took over Scientology...from what
I understand he created it from the start....on the other hand, there
is always R.A.H. & _Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land_.....

		-Richard Hartman
		max.hartman@ames-vmsb
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