Death Quest: v. 6 (Mission Earth) - Softcover

Hubbard, L. Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884042871 ISBN 13: 9780884042877

Publisher: Bridge Publications Inc, 1989

Synopsis

A monumental work -- acclaimed as agenuine masterpiece -- L. Ron Hubbard's 1.2-million-word-ten-volume MISSION EARTH dekalogy brilliantly blends science fiction and action/adventure on a vast interstellar scale with stinging satire -- in the literary tradition of Voltaire, Swift and Orwell -- on the world's foibles and fancies.A true publishing phenomenon -- precedent-setting when each volume, in turn, became a New York Times and then an international bestseller -- MISSION EARTH has already sold more than five million copies and continues to appear on bestseller lists in contries throghout the world. Winner of France's Cosmos 2000 Award and the Nova Science Fiction Award in Italy, and nominated for a Hugo Award, MISSION EARTH is an epic narrative of a secret invasion of Earth as seen-and vividly recounted -- by the aliens who, unrecognized, already live and work among us. It is a novel crowded with sharply memorable characters and with places and events cloaked in splendor, menace and mystery: Palace City, Joy City, the forbidden prison fortress of Spiteos, the violent fall of the Voltar Confederation. The Voltar Confederation has a long-range plan to use Earth as a strategic staging area in its continuing conquest of the galaxy. However, with the discovery that Earth is being destroyed by pollution, drugs and other menaces, Combat Engineer Jettero Heller is sent on a top-secret mission to save the planet from self-destruction. Unknown to Heller, another Voltarian faction (the Coordinated Information Apparatus) has secretly been using Earth as a supply base for drugs. It dispatches its own counter mission to thwart Heller's plans.

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Review

""Remember how you felt the first time you saw Star Wars? This book will do it to you again."" --ORSON SCOTT CARD

""Marvelous satire by a master of adventure."" --ANNE MCCAFFREY

""An outrageous and wildly funny read." "--SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

""A superbly imaginative, intricately plotted invasion of Earth.""--CHICAGO TRIBUNE

""There is plenty of murder, conspiracy and sex to keep us occupied."" --BALTIMORE SUN

"."..fast-paced and thoroughly enjoyable."" --Seattle Post-Intelligencer

""This ambitious novel, the first of a 10-volume series by SF veteran Hubbard ... is space opera in the grand tradition..." "--Library Journal

""Rich inventiveness, brisk pacing, and a large cast of appealing characters.""--Booklist

.".".fast-paced and thoroughly enjoyable."" --Seattle Post-Intelligencer

" Remember how you felt the first time you saw Star Wars? This book will do it to you again. " ORSON SCOTT CARD"

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 this edition

• Publisher: Bridge Publications Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0884042871
• ISBN 13: 9780884042877
• Binding: Paperback