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Mission Earth #9
Villainy Victorious
With the dreaded Apparatus Death Battalion poised for a pre-emptive strike on Earth, insane Apparatus Chief, Lombar Hisst, out of control on Voltar, holds the fate of Earth and the entire Confederacy in his clenching hands. Time is running out for combat engineer Jettero Heller as he struggles against incredible odds to save both Earth and Voltar in this intergalactic game of double jeopardy. Here is truly Villainy Victorious, the ninth heart-stopping volume in L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth.Volume 9 of the smash series Mission Earth by the author of Dianetics--L. Ron Hubbard. Join the alien agents in their intricately plotted attempt to infiltrate Earth's population and put an end to the "threat" of a future rival in space.
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First published May 1, 1986
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L. Ron Hubbard
2,005 books653 followersL. Ron Hubbard is universally acclaimed as the single most influential author and humanitarian of this modern age. His definitive works on the mind and spirit—comprising over 350 million copies in circulation and more than 40 international bestsellers—have resulted in a legacy benefiting millions and a movement spanning all cultures.
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May 4, 2015
The Mission Earth series is a big, bloated, fun and funny dekalogy* of pulp and satire and non-stop action. It's not a serious work, nor was it intended to be; I believe Hubbard wrote it simply out of fondness for the field, the way it was when he was beginning his career. He surely didn't need the money. It lampoons everything from economics to law enforcement to crime to space opera to science and all stops in between. It's not a particularly well-written work of literature, but is engaging and interesting and, despite the length, fairly fast-paced throughout. It was de rigueur in the publications of the field when it first appeared to vilify it entirely, I suspect both because of who Hubbard was and the old-fashioned themes and tropes of the work... not to mention the ubiquitous advertising campaign that surrounded the publication with the ever-present asterisk definition that I just couldn't resist reproducing here. However, I decided to see what all the fuss had been about and gave it a shot, thought it was fun, and read the whole thing straight through one summer. It was fun; I liked it.
*A series of ten books.
*A series of ten books.
March 24, 2019
Wow! I read it 4 times now. Just amazing. It has everything. Aliens, the CIA, FBO, Rockefeller, the Illuminati, Mafia, Nazis, KGB, finances, the stock market, Wal street, PR, press, fake news, media, Homosexuality, sex, politics, intergalactic warfare -- earth in its fullest picture. YOU NAME IT. It is there!
The hero is awesome, and his girl is a bombshell (but you better do not mess with her).
It is all there - everything you would ever want from such an Epic! A 1.1 million words series -- 996 characters in 10 volumes! Wow! Fantastic! I lost a lot of sleep! It is that good!
The hero is awesome, and his girl is a bombshell (but you better do not mess with her).
It is all there - everything you would ever want from such an Epic! A 1.1 million words series -- 996 characters in 10 volumes! Wow! Fantastic! I lost a lot of sleep! It is that good!
January 16, 2012
Remember when you were in high school and were assigned a thousand word essay, but you only would up with about 800 so you threw in a bunch of extra adjectives to pad it? Hubbard did that with this series, only he threw in a couple of extra volumes. You could have skipped this novel and not lost the train of the plot, such as it is.
February 21, 2015
Take all ten of these books and boil 'em down all night... no, leave it on the burner for a whole week. Reduce it too a thick dense sticky sauce. And still, this will have very little flavour.
There was the seed of a decent parody in there within the first two books then the joke was over. The joke became, "...let's make it ten books, just so we can call it a "dekalogy".
There was the seed of a decent parody in there within the first two books then the joke was over. The joke became, "...let's make it ten books, just so we can call it a "dekalogy".
July 7, 2008
AWEful
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May 4, 2009
It is just amazing to me how stupid the villians are in this storey. I really can't wait to be finished with this series.
February 21, 2015
This one was just as terrible as all the rest of these. Yuck. Only one more to go! I wonder if I get some kind of award for being dumb enough and bullheaded enough to read all 10 of these.
January 21, 2020
The book starts with the cliffhanger from the previous book. Heller, Izzy, and Twoey trapped in Delbert Rockecenter's web of dishonor. The resolution is surprising while still plausible.
If you thought Voltar was in trouble before, imagine J. Walter "Madman" Madison and Teenie Whopper running loose. They'll be lucky to salvage one of the 110 planets in the Confederacy with those two running amuck.
The biggest flaw in this book was everything associated with Teeny. It was ridiculous, implausible, and an insult to anyone's intelligence. If it weren't for Teeny, this book would be a 4-star, but there is so much content devoted to her, the entire book suffers as a result. It's so bad, it drops my rating down to 2 stars. My advice, if you're intent on reading this book, is to skip everything associated with Teeny Whopper.
In previous books, the Countess Krak morphed between dumb blonde to cunning ally, and vice versa. In this book, it's Jettero Heller's turn. Even though I don't much care for Hubbard's version of Superman, I found it disappointing at times. I had higher hopes after the last book, but I should have known better. Despite all the bad moments, there were a few good ones; it's the only reason I didn't rate this book at the bottom.
I don't know if the last book in the series, The Doomed Planet, can make this series worthwhile, but I'll read it and let you know.
If you thought Voltar was in trouble before, imagine J. Walter "Madman" Madison and Teenie Whopper running loose. They'll be lucky to salvage one of the 110 planets in the Confederacy with those two running amuck.
The biggest flaw in this book was everything associated with Teeny. It was ridiculous, implausible, and an insult to anyone's intelligence. If it weren't for Teeny, this book would be a 4-star, but there is so much content devoted to her, the entire book suffers as a result. It's so bad, it drops my rating down to 2 stars. My advice, if you're intent on reading this book, is to skip everything associated with Teeny Whopper.
In previous books, the Countess Krak morphed between dumb blonde to cunning ally, and vice versa. In this book, it's Jettero Heller's turn. Even though I don't much care for Hubbard's version of Superman, I found it disappointing at times. I had higher hopes after the last book, but I should have known better. Despite all the bad moments, there were a few good ones; it's the only reason I didn't rate this book at the bottom.
I don't know if the last book in the series, The Doomed Planet, can make this series worthwhile, but I'll read it and let you know.
October 29, 2020
This is what I found fascinating in this volume: Hubbard drops two avatars of Earth's insanities on Voltar and let's them loose. We see how the introduction of a single unscrupulous PR (Madison) totally corrupts the media and causes massive social unrest. If the satire wasn't sufficiently on-point before, this volume lays out a textbook example of our media culture and how it has become of the mess that it is. Really, it should be required reading. Meanwhile Teenie is doing a pretty good job of introducing Voltar society to drugs and few other unsavory practices.
April 21, 2019
Hubbard is the worst at pacing. He tries to keep things rolling from surprise to surprise, but it’s just so plainly stretching out what he only had a single book of material for. It’s like a bad soap opera, and nowhere near as interesting. So glad to be almost done.
October 16, 2020
This is the penultimate book in the series. I have read this series twice, once on Kindle and once on paperback. It is so fun, so fast-paced, and written in a very digestible style, that you can blast through the roller-coaster ride and adventure. A perfect introduction to sci-fi.
March 16, 2021
Terrible and fun at the same time.
August 28, 2022
Series was fun to read. Nothing all that serious, but fun nonetheless.
November 21, 2022
Love this entire series! I'm on my third read!
August 15, 2023
Page turner
The book flew by, full of action, twists and turns I wasn’t expecting. I’m reading the next book right away.
The book flew by, full of action, twists and turns I wasn’t expecting. I’m reading the next book right away.
October 17, 2020
Our savior comes from Voltar
Split in ten volumes for editorial (and practical) reasons, the Mission Earth series can be seen as a continuous narrative whose chapters are identified by the different books. This “space operatish” saga (not a lot of space travels, but alien technological gizmos are everywhere!) will follow the comically clumsy actions of corrupted Voltarian agent Soltan Gris as he narrates his attempts to sabotage and destroy the brave Jettero Heller, another native from planet Voltar, bent on “cleaning” the polluted planet Earth to meet voltarian colonial standards. The extremely grotesque way used to paint earthlings' corruption and other... “faults”, however, becomes rapidly a double-edged weapon for reader’s appreciation and may cause some annoyance if the comments read are not thought coming from the corrupted alien venting in his journal, but from the author himself trying to slip his personal (Scientology's) propaganda into the narrative. The suggestion here is to forget the author and have a long light-hearted read, laughing at alien stupidity and their lack in understanding human complexity!
Split in ten volumes for editorial (and practical) reasons, the Mission Earth series can be seen as a continuous narrative whose chapters are identified by the different books. This “space operatish” saga (not a lot of space travels, but alien technological gizmos are everywhere!) will follow the comically clumsy actions of corrupted Voltarian agent Soltan Gris as he narrates his attempts to sabotage and destroy the brave Jettero Heller, another native from planet Voltar, bent on “cleaning” the polluted planet Earth to meet voltarian colonial standards. The extremely grotesque way used to paint earthlings' corruption and other... “faults”, however, becomes rapidly a double-edged weapon for reader’s appreciation and may cause some annoyance if the comments read are not thought coming from the corrupted alien venting in his journal, but from the author himself trying to slip his personal (Scientology's) propaganda into the narrative. The suggestion here is to forget the author and have a long light-hearted read, laughing at alien stupidity and their lack in understanding human complexity!
February 10, 2016
While not as totally horrible as the Battlefield Earth book these aren't that great. There are some good plots themes and a sorta pulpish feel to the characters, but overall it seems to fall short of what it could be. The story seems to ramble and could have been cut by 1/3 and still got the point across. The random sex and sadistic events just seem to be placed in there not for storyline but for shock value. Not recommended
December 30, 2015
I will continue to the end of the series but I'm beginning to wonder why, the cliche's are wearing very thin. Not sure there are many more stereotypes left to be called into the plot.
Still only one left to go.
Still only one left to go.
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February 14, 2008Great series very funny
July 19, 2009
Great Series of Science Fiction novels.
June 8, 2020
Ho letto tutti i dieci libri
Complessivamente una fantastica opera
Fa aprire gli occhi
Complessivamente una fantastica opera
Fa aprire gli occhi
August 17, 2017
Solid good fun. I am repulsed and thrilled by this series. One left to go!
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