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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000

L. Ron Hubbard

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The 20th Anniversary Edition.

A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" opens with breathtaking scope on an Earth dominated for a thousand years by an alien invader -- and man is an endangered species. From the handful of surviving humans a courageous leader emerges -- Jonnie Goodboy Tyler -- who challenges the invincible might of the alien Psychlo empire in a battle of epic scale, danger and intrigue, with the fate of Earth and the universe in the balance.

A breakaway New York Times and perennial international bestseller, "Battlefield Earth" has been voted among the top three of the best one hundred English language novels of the twentieth century by the Random House Modern Library Readers Poll, and has won worldwide critical acclaim, including the U.S. Golden Scroll and Saturn Awards, Italy's prestigious Tetradramma d'Oro (for the story's inherent message of peace), and France's Gutenberg Award for the novel's exceptional contribution to the genre.

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of Future Vol 23

L. Ron Hubbard

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The best new science fiction and fantasy short stories from up-and-coming writers and every story is illustrated by budding new artists all winners of the annual Illustrators of the Future Contest. Established in 1983 by L. Ron Hubbard expressly for the aspiring writer, Writers of the Future has become the most respected and significant forum for new talent in all aspects of speculative fiction. The elite character of the contest is evident from the roster of judges: Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Algis Budrys, Orson Scott Card, Brian Herbert, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Eric Kotani, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert Silverberg and K.D. Wentworth. In 1988, Mr. Hubbard's vision inspired a contest for new and aspiring illustrators seeking to become speculative fiction artists. The list of judges for the illustrators' contest is no less impressive than that of the writers' contest and represents a virtual who's who of the field including Frank Frazetta, Vincent DiFate, Bob Eggleton, Stephen Hickman and Stephen Youll. Since its inception, the contest has helped place more than two hundred and fifty novels and 2,500 short stories on bookshelves around the world. The Writers of the Future Award has also earned its place alongside the Hugo and Nebula awards in the triad of speculative fiction's most prestigious acknowledgements of literary excellence.

The Doomed Planet (Mission Earth Series)

L. Ron Hubbard

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Whoom!

The tank, containing Lombar Hisst, was thrown backwards fifty yards in a breath!

Men and huts and buildings were flying through the air as though propelled by the most monstrous hurricane that ever hit a planet's face.

A hundred thousand rebel troops under Prince Mortiiy fell upon the hated Apparatus survivors. There was no quarter given.

Lombar Hisst lay in the cabin of the tank. The vehicle was upside down. Apparently they had missed, somehow, the fact that he was there.

Lombar Hisst began to plan. Palace City in a hundred and twenty-five thousand years had never been breached.

Lombar flipped the tank upright and held the throttles still. In a crazy surge of glee, he flipped on the tank's loud-hailer system and bellowed: "You idiots. I'll laugh in the faces of your corpses when you try to crack the gates of Palace City. COME AND GET ME!"

Will Hisst escape into Palace City and successfully defy Jettero Heller and Prince Mortiiy's invasion forces? Will the Army and Fleet remain aloof from the fight between Hisst and Heller and, thus, endanger the invasion and overthrow Hisst?

And what about J. Walter Madison? Will his "PR" efforts finally doom Earth to invasion despite all Jettero Heller's efforts to protect his friends back on Earth?

Find out the answers to these questions, and more, in this exciting, fiery concluding volume of L. Ron Hubbard's best-selling epic MISSION EARTH.

Fear

L. Ron Hubbard

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Total reviews: 37 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

nobody famous 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I read this after reading the hype about it's fear factor and found it not at all scary but an OK story for its time.

Forget all you know: this book is scarier 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book because my favourite bookshop didn't receive the one I ordered and I didn't have anything to read. Started it at 11pm... Couldn't sleep for 2 days. The preamble tells that the story is logical... "OK", I thought... And started reading. The book is good and scary as hell. But then I remembered what the preamble said: Yes, the story is really logic and the fantasmagories inside it are absolutely possible. Then I felt really terrified.
I've never been scared of anything. Except this book... And I loved that...

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Professor James Lowry didn' believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember. Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning from the shadows: If you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die...

Villainy Victorious (Mission Earth Series)

L. Ron Hubbard

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"Once more," said Flay, "I am going to ask you politely and then we will really get to work on you. Where has this base crew gone?"

"I DON'T KNOW!" screamed Bolz.

"Hit him!" said the colonel.

It was the last order he ever issued in this life.

The blow hit the button remote in Bolz's pocket.

There was searing flash throughout the hangar!

The Death Battalion, the warship, the Blixo, the crea, Captain Bolz and Oh Dear glowed, suddenly outlined in the incandescence. They shifted color upward from red to yellow to violet. They went black. They turned to silica, momentarily holding shape, then they became molten glass.

The Death Battalion, sent by Apparatus Chief Lombar Hisst to take control on Earth, was gone.

But had Heller, the Countess Krak, and the dying Emperor of Voltar survived?

The insane Lombar Hisst, out of control on Voltar, holds the fate of Earth and the entire Voltar Confederacy in his clenching hands.

Here is truly VILLAINY VICTORIOUS, the ninth, heart-stopping volume in L. Ron Hubbard's best-selling dekalogy.

Voyage of Vengeance (Mission Earth Series)

L. Ron Hubbard

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I leaned out of the helicopter door, wind whipping me from the blades, to yell at Madison to stop.

I fired my gun to attract attention.

That did it! Madison saw us. He only had about a thousand feet to go with the dock ahead of him.

The pilot put Raht right beside Madison.

Raht grabbed the man by the arm.

Up went the pilot.

The vehicle was shooting forward -- IT WENT OFF THE END OF THE PIER!

Alien killer Soltan Griss rescues J. Walter Madman from certain death at the hands of the beautiful, deadly Countess Krak, and embarks on a VOYAGE OF VENGEANCE, covering half the globe on his multimillion-dollar yacht.

A trained cat kidnaps the infamous Whiz Kid on national television.

Grotesque aliens plot air piracy, using advanced technology from an extraterrestrial civilization.

Apparatus assassins conspire to destroy Fleet Combat Engineer Jetter Heller and sabotage his mission to save Earth from drowning in its own environmental pollution.

Will Heller and Krak survive? How does assassin Soltan Gris deal with a teenage nymphomaniac and a crazed PR genius?

Find out in VOYAGE OF VENGEANCE, Volume 7 of the action-packed MISSION EARTH dekalogy.

Disaster (Mission Earth Series)

L. Ron Hubbard

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Funny, Satirical Wit Meets Action Psi-Fi 5 out of 5 stars.
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I loved all of these stories. I could not stop once I started them. The pacing is great. The satire is great. Hubbard has a fantastic and witty sense of humor. These stories also really they get you thinking. Love them all.

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A shotgun blasted at the door.

Heller grabbed his satchels and threw himself on the spacetrooper sled as the shotgun roared.

Heller hit the controls.

Another shotgun blast!

THEN THE FIRST EXPLOSION WENT!

It sounded just like lightning had struck close to hand, a blasting, cracking roar that filled the night!

The sled bucked and twisted.

With Heller aboard, it plummeted earthward from thirty-five stories high.

The New York mafia are under aerial assault. The United States is about to declare war. The world's oil supply is radioactive and owned by an alien.

At the same time there is a black hole now in orbit while a mountain of ice is plunging toward Earth.

Welcome to DISASTER, the fastest non-stop volume yet in L. Ron Hubbard's best-selling MISSION EARTH dekalogy.

Death Quest (Mission Earth Series)

L. Ron Hubbard

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CRASH!

The window shattered!

The boom of a rifle!

Everything went into a blur!

Something hit the Countess Krak!

She was down on the floor!

Hit man Torpedo Fiaccola has finally struck.

A killer so loathsome that he has been blacklisted by the Mafia, Torpedo has been hired by the alien, Soltan Gris, who has traveled from the Voltarian Confederacy to seal the fate of Earth.

Their target is the Countess Krak, the beautiful and deadly lover of Royal combat engineer Jettero Heller, whose mission to Earth threatens a plot to overthrow the 110-planet empire. Gris must stop Heller and Krak at any cost.

DEATH QUEST sweeps violently through the otherwise quiet hills of Virginia to the open sea with a deadly pursuit that climaxes explosively in the waterways of Atlantic City.

Meanwhile, a bigamous marriage, a bubble gum-chewing teeny-bopper and a pig farm may sabotage every scheme in this sixth action-filled volume of L. Ron Hubbard's best-selling epic MISSION EARTH.

Final Blackout

L. Ron Hubbard

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Awful Pulp 2 out of 5 stars.
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You know one should be used to the Great Man takes on the system book by now. They are so numerous that they shouldn't even annoy anymore. Yet this book takes it to the extreme. The Lieutenant is the great one, the grand poobah, the rebel leader hero. Everyone else is either a loyal follower or an evil petty bureaucrat. Sadly Hubbard spends many pages reinforcing these thin characterizations.

Yes this book was written when he was young and it wasn't meant to endure. Maybe it can be read as a hokey 1940 pulp and a testament to the paranoia of perpetual war. It almost belongs more to the Vietnam era than WWII since all the generals and upper level military guys are selfish fools ready to sacrifice a million lives for their own glory (there's even the American Imperialists at the end) but I doubt the unadulterated praise for the Lieutenant would fly any better in Vietnam War America.

Either way it's a dull book full of cliches that would have been long out of print without Scientology.

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London 1975. The World War is grinding to a halt. A malignant force more sinister than Hitler's Nazi regime has seized control of Europe and is systematically destroying every adversary...

In the heart of France, a crack unit of renegade soldiers has overcome all opposition under the leadership of one man, a hardened military strategist highly trained in every method of combat - known only as "the Lieutentant"...

Ordered by his superiors to return to British Headquarters, located in a vast underground fortress commanded by politically correct staff officers, "the Lieutentant" is torn between abiding by military codes and doing what he knows is right for his country...

Upon reaching embattled England, "the Lieutenant" and his men, freshly supplied and re-equipped, come face to face with both the incumbent forces of tyranny and a technologically advanced power in a climatic battle for freedom...

An Alien Affair (Mission Earth Series)

L. Ron Hubbard

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Entertaining, but Still Plain Bad 2 out of 5 stars.
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'An Alien Affair' is entertaining enough, if you struggle through the mind-numbingly stupid lesbian plot-line (how many times does Hubbard want us to see Gris being tortured by lesbians? It happens 6 or 7 times). Luckily I kept reading, the book was so stupid until that point that I nearly gave it up. After that it was mildly interesting. Not on my top 10 list..in fact, though I don't have a list, I'll bet it's in the bottom 10 of all the books I've ever read. As to the reviewer from Columbus, OH who claims this book is realistic and great..get real. Obviously a Scientologist.

The series is terrible 1 out of 5 stars.
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I thought after reading the first book in the series that this was going to be a pretty good series. The first L.Ron Hubbard book that I read was Battlefield Earth and I absolutely loved it, however this series took a terrible down fall after the first book. It just got stupid. There isn't anyone who is going to always defy the odds like Heller does. I didn't like that and I think the series won't hold my attention to read any more in the series.

Sincerely, A very honest critic

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"The interstellar Voltar Confederacy has targeted Earth for eventual, routine takeover, but the timetable is upset, first by the threat of Erath's soon becoming overpolluted and unusable and, second, by ruthless Voltar spy chief Lombar Hisst, who sees the plan as a key to his play to make himself emperor."--Publishers Weekly. HC: Bridge.