Tommy and Bob said Hubbard was a genius and a great humanitarian. They pointed to his record as a world-class Boy Scout (‘The youngest Eagle Scout in America,’ said Bob, ‘he earned twenty-one merit badges’), pilot, adventurer (the story goes that he once singlehandedly saved a bear from drowning), an incredibly prolific sci-fi author (he could write an entire bestselling novel on a single overnight train journey), philosopher, sailor, guru and whistle-blowing scourge of evil psychiatrists.
