Mission Earth
Description
Mission Earth is a ten-volume science fiction novel series by L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard died three months after the publication of volume 1, and other volumes were published posthumously. The series's initial publisher, Bridge Publications, coined the word dekalogy, meaning "a series of ten books", to describe and promote the novel. Made up of about 1.2 million words, the epic is a "satirical science fiction focusing on a preemptive invasion of Earth by an advanced alien civilization known as the Voltar Confederacy". Despite largely negative critical reception, each volume in the series topped numerous bestseller lists, though with allegations of the Church of Scientology buying copies in bulk.
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
The enemy within
Pentonville Prison. Wally Hubbard is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hubbard makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who arrested Hubbard, is warned to watch his back, but it seems that Hubbard has another target in his murderous sights. However, the investigation is mired in confusion, the identities of killer and victim become increasingly ambiguous. An inmate at an internment camp who might be a spy sending intelligence to the Germans complicates matters further, and the multiplying manhunts, as well as Marmion's concern for his injured and withdrawn son Paul, leave the detective desperate and perhaps with too many threads to untangle.
The invaders plan
A monumental work--accompanied as a genuine 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. Each volume, in turn, became a New York Times and then an international best seller. MISSION EARTH has already sold more than five million copies and continues to appear on bestseller lists in countries throughout the world. 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. 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.