Mission Earth Volume 10: The Doomed Planet

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......more

Now I finished the whole series again. Last time I read them was 22 years ago, and I must say I did not remember much (It was actually the first books I ever read in English, from cover to cover and it took me almost a year then). I will definitely read them again, but this time I will not wait so l......more

Great Series of Science Fiction novels.......more

This book had its moments, but overall, it was a chore to read. The end (not the ending) was painful, but I had come that far, so there was no turning back. All I can say is, "I DID IT!" Yes, my reading quest is complete. (Hopefully, I'm not scarred for life.) If you read this far, you more or less......more

In some ways this almost has to be the favorite volume... So much has gone on in this epic, so many characters in play, so many twists and turns, and you get so invested in the good characters that it is a palpable relief as the threads begin to resolve. Given the disastrous influence of J. Walter M......more