Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1491345 in Books
• Published on: 1987-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

From the Publisher
With Mission Earth, L. Ron Hubbard created an unsurpassed
masterpiece of satire, social commentary and rousing intergalactic
adventure--full of biting insights about the condition of this planet, its
people and the institutions that make it the way it is. Mission Earth, an
unheard-of 1.2-million word novel in ten volumes, is a monumental
achievement by any literary standard.
Mission Earth has an entire galaxy for its backdrop, though the main action
occurs on Earth and the planet Voltar. The Voltarian Grand Council has
become convinced that it must send a mission to prevent Earth from
destroying itself--thus allowing the Voltar Confederacy to proceed on its
long-standing invasion plan and timetable to conquer a planet they regard
as an important future way-stop on the main invasion route toward the
center of the galaxy.
The mission is assigned to a clandestine agent, Fleet Combat Engineer
Jettero Heller. Soon after arriving on Earth, he heads to New York City
where he is determined to get to the bottom of what is causing Earth to
self-destruct, unaware that his every move is being tracked and that
powerful forces on Voltar want his mission to fail.

About the Author
Born in Tilden, Nebraska and growing up in a rugged and
adventurous Montana, L. Ron Hubbard lived a life of truly legendary
proportions. Before the age of ten, he had already broken his first bronco
and earned that rare status of blood brother to the Blackfeet Indians. By
age eighteen, he had logged more than a quarter of a million miles, twice
crossing the Pacific--before the advent of commercial aviation--to a then
mysterious Asia. Returning to the United States in 1928, he entered George
Washington University where, drawing from far-flung experience, he began to
shape some of this century's most enduring tales.

By 1950, the name L. Ron Hubbard had graced the pages of some two hundred
classic publications of the day, including multiple issues of Argosy,
Top-Notch and Thrilling Adventures. Among his more than 15 million words of
pre-1950 fiction were tales spanning all primary genres: action, suspense,
mystery, westerns and even the occasional romance. Enlisted to "humanize" a
machine-dominated science fiction, the name L. Ron Hubbard next became
synonymous with such classics as Final Blackout and To the
Stars--rightfully described as among the most defining works in the whole
of the genre. No less memorable were his fantasies of the era, including
the perennially applauded Fear, described as a pillar of all modern horror.
He was considered one of the high production writers of the pulp era and as
a result of the frequency with which his stories were published wrote under
16 different pen names.

In the early 1980s, Ron returned to the world of popular fiction with two
monumental blockbusters: the internationally bestselling Battlefield Earth
and the ten-volume Mission Earth series--each volume likewise topping
international bestseller lists in what amounted to an unprecedented
publishing event. His screenplays, now being turned into novels, continue
this tradition, when in 1998, Ai! Pedritio!--When Intelligence Goes Wrong
and in 1999, A Very Strange Trip became his sixteenth and seventeenth
fiction New York Times bestsellers.

During a remarkable life filled with adventure, new discoveries and
meaningful accomplishment in a diverse array of professional fields, L. Ron
Hubbard mastered numerous artistic skills while researching and isolating
the fundamental principles and basic laws underlying the subject of Art
itself.

He was an avid and skilled photographer, an experienced cinematographer and
a musician who mastered not only a variety of instruments but also
composition and song writing as well.

But of all the arts, writing, for Ron, was always first and foremost.
During a long and distinguished career; he not only became a master and
teacher of the writer's craft, he also earned the reputation as one of the
world's most popular and influential authors. He pursued writing in all its
many forms, including plays, short stories, novels, film scripts, poetry,
articles, essays, nonfiction books and more. In over 50 years as a
professional writer, he wrote upward of 60 million words of published
fiction and non-fiction--over 550 published titles with still more yet to
be released.

Customer Reviews

An absorbing science fiction tale, yet so close to the truth
This is a book that I thoroughly enjoyed and found hard to put down. Although part of a series of books, this volume on it's own tells a great story. It is not really until you are about half way through the book that you realise you are reading about organised crime, government corruption, rape, drug traffiking and murdering along with the destruction of the worlds environment. A strong portrayal of the main character by the author, and a huge amount of detail, although none of it seems to be excessive or useless. The book is written in such a way that even in many years to come, all the references will still make sense, and all the characters will still mirror those people in real life.

This series is already getting tiring
This is only the third volume out of ten and this series is already starting to get tiring. The plot meanders aimlessly at a snail's pace and the so-called satire falls flat almost every time (one genuinely funny moment was when Soltan Gris tries to call Delbert John Rockecenter). So much time is spent on the pointless subplot about Soltan's dancing girl Utanc. The real story doesn't really get going until the last 100 pages and then the book ends with a cliffhanger. I wouldn't keep reading this series if I hadn't already bought all ten volumes, and I don't recommend it.