Invaders Plan [Paperback]

L.Ron Hubbard (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: New Era Pubns. (January 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1870451074
• ISBN-13: 978-1870451079
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,890,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Fiction Novel; Interesting Satire, April 27, 2009

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Scotman55 "James" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Invaders Plan (Paperback)

I knew L. Ron Hubbard wrote many short stories and novellas back in the Thirties and Forties and even read a few of them -- Fear, Ultimate Adventure, Typewriter in the Sky, etc., as they're reprinted in short books by Ace Books and others from the 1970s -- so I thought I knew what to expect. I was wrong. Invaders Plan is a satire on modern American thinking, including drug abuse, drug dealers, homosexuality, planetary pollution & ecology, even Congress! Jettero Heller has been assigned to get the planet ready for invasion by cleaning it up and all that. Soltan Gris (salt & grease, get it?) wants to stop him at all costs and use Earth (Blito P3) as a source of illicit drugs to the rest of the galaxy.

I enjoyed the fast pace and the descriptive chapters and could not wait until the next volume came out. Publishers Weekly gave it positive reviews and so on.

True, Hubbard is the source of Scientology writing, but there's none of this in this novel -- in fact, it's purposely so, as explained in the Preface (but who reads Prefaces?).

Enjoy!

Also:

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
The Great Secret (Stories from the Golden Age)
FEAR - and - TYPEWRITER IN THE SKY
Fear & The Ultimate Adventure

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holds you on the edge of your seat!, September 4, 2006

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Jim Thompson (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Invaders Plan (Mission Earth) (Mass Market Paperback)

What an great book!

The entire series is a best seller.

Hubbard did it again.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Invaders Plan, May 3, 2008

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NoWireHangers (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Invaders Plan (Paperback)

"The Invaders Plan" is the first of ten books in Hubbard's "Mission Earth" series. The books were not written separately, but as one long novel and divided into ten parts for publishing. And it shows. The plot moves very slowly, and the entire book is just really a very long buildup. They don't leave for Earth until on the very last page, so don't expect there to be any space adventures of invasion of Earth. I guess that will be in the sequels.

The book does have its good parts, and occasional humor, but the pace is very uneven. At times, there are several pages of descriptions of details that are completely irrelevant.

If you're just looking for a science fiction novel, look elsewhere. The book does not work well on its own. You must be prepared to read the whole series. If it will be worthwhile reading all ~4000 pages, I don't know yet.