The Invaders Plan
Registered by mbmeadow of Sacramento, California USA on 5/9/2004
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
This is the first in a 10 book series. And this first book is humongous.
It's been a while since I've read the series, but it's a hysterical, satirical look at Earth from an alien point of view, as there's a plan to take over Earth eventually.
My problem with the series is that I really hated the main protagonist, because he was pretty evil and corrupt, no matter how much I tried to like him. His nemesis is super squeaky clean, fantastically heroic, talented and handsome, and Soltan Gris hates him. So maybe that's why I like Jetero Heller.
Gris is a doublecrossing doublecrosser who sees himself as not having all the advantages Heller did. He's not a big success. He begins in the series by dictating his story of everything he was involved in, including his corruption.
It's interesting that Hubbard should chose the protagonist of his book to be the antihero, but it's also part of his comedic plan, I'm sure.
This series is definitely worth the read, though it'll take a long, long time. And that's probably why I'm not going to read it again.
From the cover:
From Lord Invay, Royal Historian, Chairman, Board of Censors, Royal Palace, Voltar Confederacy:
"Let me state it boldly and baldly: there is no such planet as Earth.
"If it ever existed at all, it certainly does not exist today or even within living memory.
"On the authority of every highly placed official in the land I can assure you utterly and finally THERE IS NO PLANET EARTH! And that is final!"
Mission Earth is an epic told entirely and uniquely by aliens that already walk among us. Earth is to be invaded and a Royal combat engineer must cross 22 light years to secretly infiltrate the planet. He is also crossing a scheme to use the resources of Earth's most powerful figure to overthrow the confederacy.
With a convicted murderess who trains giant catlike animals, a doctor who creates human biological freaks, a madman who controls Voltar's secret police and a clandestine Earth base in Turkey, a bizarre stage is set and narrated by an alien killer assigned to sabotage the mission and Earth ... the planet that does not exist.
It's been a while since I've read the series, but it's a hysterical, satirical look at Earth from an alien point of view, as there's a plan to take over Earth eventually.
My problem with the series is that I really hated the main protagonist, because he was pretty evil and corrupt, no matter how much I tried to like him. His nemesis is super squeaky clean, fantastically heroic, talented and handsome, and Soltan Gris hates him. So maybe that's why I like Jetero Heller.
Gris is a doublecrossing doublecrosser who sees himself as not having all the advantages Heller did. He's not a big success. He begins in the series by dictating his story of everything he was involved in, including his corruption.
It's interesting that Hubbard should chose the protagonist of his book to be the antihero, but it's also part of his comedic plan, I'm sure.
This series is definitely worth the read, though it'll take a long, long time. And that's probably why I'm not going to read it again.
From the cover:
From Lord Invay, Royal Historian, Chairman, Board of Censors, Royal Palace, Voltar Confederacy:
"Let me state it boldly and baldly: there is no such planet as Earth.
"If it ever existed at all, it certainly does not exist today or even within living memory.
"On the authority of every highly placed official in the land I can assure you utterly and finally THERE IS NO PLANET EARTH! And that is final!"
Mission Earth is an epic told entirely and uniquely by aliens that already walk among us. Earth is to be invaded and a Royal combat engineer must cross 22 light years to secretly infiltrate the planet. He is also crossing a scheme to use the resources of Earth's most powerful figure to overthrow the confederacy.
With a convicted murderess who trains giant catlike animals, a doctor who creates human biological freaks, a madman who controls Voltar's secret police and a clandestine Earth base in Turkey, a bizarre stage is set and narrated by an alien killer assigned to sabotage the mission and Earth ... the planet that does not exist.
Reserved for Pochacco.
Thanks a lot mbmeadow! If I had known they all were hardcovers, I wouldn't have asked for so many books!
I hope the postage wasn't too much...
I hope the postage wasn't too much...
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