The Invaders Plan (Mission Earth Series)

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Summary: More sci-fi than you can possibly desire - 10 volumes!
Review: Earth is on a sure-fire path to obliterating itself and this messes up the Confederation's invasion time-table.
Enter Jettero Heller - a confederation officer, engineer of the first class.
Mission Earth takes more than a poke at the troubles and evil that exist (for real) on this planet.
It clearly lays out in a satirical manner (& the names are changed to "protect" the guilty) JUST EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!
The character of Jettero Heller is unimpeachable. Every woman reader wants him and every male reader wants to be him.
Lombar Hist - the villian & intergalactic drug pusher - is truly exasperating.
Just when you think he has gone as far south as evil can go - he goes farther.
Book 9 is my favorite. Hubbard, somehow, inadvertantly, predicted the OJ Simpson trail in this one.
(Book 9 preceeded this event by several years)
It was more than enlightening and interesting to think that the media could (possibly) operate in the way outlined in the book -- to destroy a person's life; it was downright scary.
This decology is incredible!

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Summary: Satirical masterpiece YEARS ahead of it's time...
Review: First of all, don't let any silly people with no sense of humor (or reality, for that matter) tell you that this is a bad book, or Mission Earth a bad series. It is a masterful prelude to just about THE largest science fiction series of all time (called a "dekalogy" because it spans ten volumes!). Written almost an entire decade before X-Files-ish subjects of alien/government conspiracies found their way into popular culture, Mission Earth satirizes an alien invasion of earth. It all begins on the planet Voltar, where the Voltarian government, with plans on coming to earth to make it part of it's vast, pangalactic empire is holding a conference on what to do about our little planet. It seems there is a problem with earth. It is poisoning itself with pollution. It's technology level is at a ridiculously primitive low. It's future is guided by madmen with wet dreams of atomic self-annihilation. It will destroy itself within years, making it a useless ball of nuclear ash, ruining centuries of planning and invasion preperations. Something must be done. And soon. Like now. Enter Jettero Heller, Royal Engineer extraordinaire. Jet's job is to go to earth and clean the place up, to keep it from destroying itself and make it ready for invasion. An easy job if there ever was one; one that Voltar has performed many times on many planets prior to invasion. Unfortunately for Voltar and for earth, there are those who like earth the miserable way it is, thank you very much. There are those who make personal profit and gain from the sad state this lovely planet is in and will do all in their power to keep it that way. Enter the Controlled Information Apparatus (C.I.A. for short), the intelligence division of the Voltarian government, and it's insane megalomaniacal leader, Lombar Hist. It seems ol' Lombar already has his greedy paws deep in earth's goings-on and is actually hard at work with a planned invasion of his own. Namely, the complete takeover of the Voltarian government. His strategy is simple: use already established but cleverly concealed outposts on earth to transport narcotics back to his home planet. Get the Voltarian government officials addicted to substances so debilitating, that they will either gleefully submit to his perverted will or die from drug poisoning, the latter a prospect not altogether unattractive to Hist. He needs a pawn to send to earth to try and stop Heller before he succeeds in saving the planet, a lackey to do his bidding from across the galaxies. Enter C.I.A. agent Soltan Gris. His "official" mission is to tag along with Heller as something like a project coordinator. His real mission is to effectively dispose of Heller once they get to earth... The bumbling, paranoid Gris is our narrator through this voyage of intrigue, suspense and adventure. The entire story is told from his first-person viewpoint as he monitors Heller and plots against him from afar. Mr. Hubbard impeccably delivers a satirically humorous tale of good vs. evil as only a true master of the written word could. His excellent characterizations make the entire cast of the dekalogy come to life in such a way that you'll think they are SO real, they're unreal! Emotions come across brilliantly: you'll cry when Jet cries; laugh when he laughs; go insane when Gris goes insane; and cheer like a maniac sports fan when he is foiled (that is, unless you're on his side...) This was Hubbard's last major work in the field of science fiction, and rightfully so: it would be well nigh impossible to surpass it! Oh, and a word of warning which will probably only apply to a very small percentage of the readers of this work of wonder: bumbling, paranoid agents of malignant alien forces seeking to undermine and destroy earth (as well as most other civilizations) will be extremely upset by the events which unfold within the pages of these fabulous novels. Their already too brittle sense of self worth shattered and their covert hatred of the human race laid bare by the MERE IDEA of someone trying to save the earth in even a fictional work of art, they might very well take it upon themselves to express their immense dislike of Mission Earth. DO NOT EVEN START PAGE ONE OF BOOK ONE IF YOU FALL INTO THIS SMALL PERCENTAGE!!!! YOU WILL BE SORELY DISAPPOINTED!! Mr. Hubbard, you will live forever in the hearts of TRUE fans of true science fiction with this masterpiece of social satire; and may the only seriousness with which Mission Earth be scrutinized lay in the realization that, impending alien invasion or not, our planet IS in a jam; and even though we may not have Royal Engineer extraordinaire Jet Heller to come to our aid, we have artists and authors such as yourself to wake us up to this fact and urge us all to embark on our own Mission: Earth. Just my two cents...

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Summary: Satire At Its Best
Review: The first book in the Mission Earth series introduces you to the main characters and the premise that an alien race has to save the human race from itself before it destroys the planet thereby spoiling the alien invasion plans. If you want a good laugh at the idiocies of our world read "The Invaders Plan" and then the rest of the series which just get funnier and funnier

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Summary: I Think this is one of the best 10 book series I have read
Review: These books take you into a vision of what could happen if this earth was planned to be overan by a alien race of humans . I could not stop reading them ,as soon as I put one down I had the next book in hand

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Summary: Sensational Sci-Fi Satire!
Review: The Mission Earth dekalogy is certainly one of the greatest creations in science fiction literature, and certainly the greatest modern work of satire available today. The Invaders Plan starts off the series in brilliant fashion. The basic plot concerns a heavily industrilised planet called Voltar where the local inhabitants are a study in themselves. The Voltarian Confederacy spans 110 planets and is run by the Grand Council. Their government is guided under the Invasion Timetable, which lays out the Voltarian's expansion into the galaxy. But there is a problem. Blito P3(Earth) is becoming unfit for life and will be almost useless by the time the invasion force reaches it. Something has to be done.
This begins an interesting and exciting ride through the cities and denizens of Voltar that will leave you breathless. A great start to the series, I am only giving it a 9 because it only gets better and better and better. You WIll loose sleep, miss appointments and become a raving psychotic if you don't force yourself to put it down. Anybody serious about sci-fi should be serious about these books.

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Summary: A cute series of books
Review: Hubbard externalizes his anger with the United States investigations with the Church of Scientology (which Hubbard founded) and with the book Dianetics. HOWEVER, before you begin this series of ten books, you should know that Hubbard died before finishing. He died just after starting the seventh book. The step-in author continues to use Hubbards name but it's VERY obvious. A disappointment to say the least. I would love to know how it was supposed to end. If you want, read Battlefield Earth, that was fun.

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Summary: You must read this series.
Review: A spoof of a most excellent nature. Hubbard has taken everthing that we despise about ourselves and put it into a science fiction farce of emense proportion. Soltan Gris comes alive as narrator and arch-villian. Jet Heller is everthing a hero is suppose to be raised to the infinite power. The characters are well developed. The plot is so engrossing that the reader should consider taking a leave of absence from their job.

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Summary: its attractive.
Review: i must say that INVADER'S PLAN is one of the best science fiction i have read so far .it is created on the background of an imajinary planet and thereis an aura of mystry and strangeness in it . the characters are real . they r not one dimensional as many people think . there are numerous characters in the story but each have been properly picturised . the human relations and the sentiments have been dislayed properly . even minute details have been stated . this novel will have an expression on the human mind , especially if the reader is a teenager .there is an eagerness throughout the novel .jetro heller seems to be the guy next door .
however , i must say that the entire decalogy is quite monotonous. there could have been only 3 arts . the first part dealing with the incidents before leaving voltare , the second part dealing with the adventures on earth and the third part dealing with the activities taking place after soltan and heller returns . the lenght is a problem.besides there is nothing much to complain.

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Summary: A right rivetting read
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Summary: Fun but waaaay too long
Review: A fun book which generally kept me smiling and even had me laugh out loud once or twice.

Poor Soltan Gris, a totally deluded idiot who can't recognize even the most obvious signs of someone's loathing of him, is pitted against Jettero Heller, a type of superman who appears to have never failed at anything and is beloved by all. Soltan never had a chance! And so, he struggles with what should be the simple task of getting Jettero onto a spaceship so they can leave for their mission to Earth. Since it takes him 615 pages to accomplish this goal, this is a frustrating, and often hilarious, struggle.

Unfortunately, as a previous reviewer already said, 200 pages could've been easily cut. With all the extra material, this book doesn't seem to have a plot as much as it seems to consist of a series of events strung together which simply end on page 615. Eventually I might read the next book in the series but I doubt I'll slog through all ten books, not unless the pace picks up and there is less padding.