Catch Yukon Madness Presented By L. Ron Hubbard Presented As File

is a collection of three short works from pulp magazines, none of them remarkable nor among Hubbard's best, but representative adventures for their time, The title story, from the Augustissue of Mystery Adventures, shows us that the Royal Mountie always gets his man, and, in this case at least, a woman as well.
The middle story, The Cossack, from New Mystery Adventures' May/Juneissue, is a terribly Russian tale of passion and politics and patriotism and love and heroism and loyalty predictably spoiler alert!, everybody dies.
These first two stories had much more of a sexual content than was normal for the time, The final tale, The Small Boss of Nunaloha, originally appeared in the February,, issue of South Sea Stories, It concerns a very short man who's very big with spirit and courage, I think it's interesting to note that Hubbard's short novel If I Were You also appeared in February ofin Five Novels Monthly, in which the main character is a circus midget.
As always, the Galaxy Press books are of high quality with original artwork, a glossary, and sturdy binding, Audiobook

Three stories, I really enjoyed the first two and the third one is good, The first are rather brutal endings, Decent pulp! Thrilling tales of manly men and dames that done 'em wrong, Just don't expect the author to have done, like, /any/ research at all, I would have rated the first storystars, seemed too short, but the nextstories in the book made it a definitestars, This isstories. The first one is Yukon Madness, which I didn't like so much,

The second was The Cossacks, which I thought was pretty good,

The third I don't recall the name but it was alright, A short sharp lesson in dramatic storytelling, I enjoyed it. After reading Spy Killer, another in this series of L, Ron Hubbard's pulp writings and one I won in a GR giveaway, I wasn't sure if reading another was going to be worth my time, Blatantly racist and overthetop corny, still there was a certain amount of fun to reading it, Awful by any reasonable standards, it was like watching a Bmovie, So I thought I'd give a go at a couple of others, They are quick reads so what the hell, Despite the fact that these books are bound pretty well, have nice artwork and are generally pretty nice looking paper bound volumes, I'm not going to pay,for a hundred or so pages of story, Fortunately, my local library had a few titles,

Yukon Madness hilarious title, by the way is a collection of three short stories: "Yukon Madness," "The Cossack" and "The Small Boss of Nunaloha, " Also there's a short biography of LRH at the end, the same one in the other book and I imagine it's the same for all the books, The first story met my expectations meaning it wasn't very good, The other two somewhat exceeded my expectations,

The first story, "Yukon Madness," is a fairly simple affair about RCMP Tommy McKenna's pursuit of an Eskimo dubbed "Itauk the Madman, " From the start I know we are in for a racially offensive treat as we read about Itauk "squinting with slanted eyes" across the icy Northern wastes, During his pursuit, Tommy encounters the token love interest, the halfwhite halfEskimo Kaja, She is described thusly:

Her face was not that of an ordinary Eskimo woman, It was finer, more delicate, Nor were the eyes slanted, Her figure was slight and although it was almost hidden under the bulk of her furs, Tommy caught an impression of a slender body, small hands, a high, firm breast.

Anyway, Tommy and Kaja instantly fall in love and together defeat the mad Itauk in high cornball style,

"The Cossack" is the second story, in two parts, the first of which is enticingly titled "Sex Lure, " It's about a lieutenant in tsarist Russia who gets sexually harassed by a hottotrot Duchess, He never gives in, though, and the reader is left bereft of any sexy shenanigans, What we do get is a revenge at the end and a good bit of misogyny, While misogyny, as well as racism, is something I find repellent as a rule, the premise of the story was at least interesting and the outcome unexpected,

"The Small Boss of Nunaloha," the final story, was the best of the bunch and surprisingly well done, In fact, if I were to rate these stories individually it would get three, It's about a smallstatured merchant on an island in the Pacific who's tough as hell and manages to defeat a bunch of pirates come along to cause trouble, Refreshingly, there wasn't much here in the way of blatant racism and the action wasn't that corny, It was actually a pretty kickass story,

These pulp era stories were written in a time when racism was a norm and were written for boys and young men who wanted cheap thrills and excitement.
You know, we aren't expecting lit'rachure here and some offensiveness is to be expected, Still, though, I don't think a lot of these stories are worth celebrating because some are blatantly offensive and I find it strange that so many of these LRH pulp stories are being reprinted like this and branded as "good oldfashioned fun.
" They are by no means good and surely should not elicit pride, But they can be fun, in a Bmovie sort of way, MSTK for readers,

The Carnival of Death is next on deck,
There are all kinds of crazy, but there's only one Yukon Madness, And Royal Mountie Tommy McKenna has seen the terror that follows in its wake, . . his partner murdered and fed to a pack of wolves, Bent on revenge, McKenna sets out to find the madman who did it, and there's only one way to get himthrough his girlfriend, But whose side is she on The trap has been set, The question is, who is the predator and who is the prey Yukon Madness

the Kindle Version

This volume has three stories that are very enjoyable, adventurous and at times shocking!

Yukon Madness, the lead story, about a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman Tommy, whose partner has just been chewed up by wolves owned by the evil bully, Itauk The Madman.
You chill to the cold of the Canadian North as we follow Tommy on his hunt for revenge, He meets a woman who we are not sure whose side shes on,

Especially amazing is the escape scene and the task that a belt full of bullets plays, but do read on!

The second tale is a twoparter about a Russian soldier before the Russian Revolution who gets chosen by the Duchess as her amour but he refuses her a kiss, preferring not to cheat on his fiancé.
Lots of tension in this one not your usual boy meets girl, and both boy and girl get their revenge, which leads to the ultimate sacrifice,

The Small Boss of Nunaloha, a certain Jim Lanridge runs a trader outpost, and considers himself the boss of the island, A wise guy pirate comes up and demands and takes what he wants, Even though Jim is a little guy, he comes up and constantly gets punched, kicked, slapped, beaten to a pulp but he never gives up, He always gets up, comes back to the pirate and tells him hell never get away with it,

Amazing story of perseverance and sticking up for what you think is right, despite the odds against one,

Final Words:

Overall, a fun set of stories, The metaphorical writing is typical of pulps of the era, so the style of writing may take some getting used to, But do read them! Heres to the Kindle version,

Recommended.


While I don't think this is one of Hubbard's better stories, it is a textbook example of a pulp adventure: dispense with such tropes as characterization, setting, or introspective navelgazing in favor of nonstop action.
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Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time, As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through thes and 's,

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. Then too, of course, there is all L, Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in theth century, While, as such, he presents the culmination of science and spiritual technology as embodied in the religion of Scientology, For an in depth look at his life, visit sitelink www, LRonHubbard. org sitelink.