Voyage of Vengeance (Mission Earth Series) - Hardcover

Hubbard, L. Ron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884042138 ISBN 13: 9780884042136

Publisher: Bridge Pubns, 1987

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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About the Author

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 230 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, 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.

Review

"You will lose sleep, you will miss appointments if you don't force yourself to put it down." —Orson Scott Card

"...more addictive than salt and peanuts." —Gene Wolfe

“Each chapter of Hubbard’s narrative is fast-paced . . .espionage and intrigue prevail.” —ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

"Each book made me laugh and forget my troubles..." —Dasfax

“The Mission Earth books form a true saga—in the grand tradition!” —ROBERT BLOCH, AUTHOR OF PSYCHO

"Mission Earth never pauses, only accelerates." —Astronaut Edward Gibson, Author of Reach

"Pure excitement." —Book Browsing

“A wildly wicked and deliciously cynical work that mocked virtue, skewered hypocrisy and gave a hilariously satirical view of society.” —KANSAS CITY STAR

Edition details

• Publisher: Bridge Pubns
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884042138
• ISBN 13: 9780884042136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 381