Villainy Victorious (Mission Earth Series) (Paperback)

by L. Ron Hubbard (Author)

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"Ironic, exciting, romantic and hilarious." -- Orson Scott Card

"Science Fiction with a sense of humor and a real page turner." -- Donald Kingsbury "Courtship Rite"

"Wry humor abounds--but never lets you relax for very long." -- F.M. Busby "The Demu Trilogy"

Product Description
"Once more," said Flay, "I am going to ask you politely and then we will really get to work on you. Where has this base crew gone?"

"I DON'T KNOW!" screamed Bolz.

"Hit him!" said the colonel.

It was the last order he ever issued in this life.

The blow hit the button remote in Bolz's pocket.

There was searing flash throughout the hangar!

The Death Battalion, the warship, the Blixo, the crea, Captain Bolz and Oh Dear glowed, suddenly outlined in the incandescence. They shifted color upward from red to yellow to violet. They went black. They turned to silica, momentarily holding shape, then they became molten glass.

The Death Battalion, sent by Apparatus Chief Lombar Hisst to take control on Earth, was gone.

But had Heller, the Countess Krak, and the dying Emperor of Voltar survived?

The insane Lombar Hisst, out of control on Voltar, holds the fate of Earth and the entire Voltar Confederacy in his clenching hands.

Here is truly VILLAINY VICTORIOUS, the ninth, heart-stopping volume in L. Ron Hubbard's best-selling dekalogy.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 410 pages
• Publisher: Bridge Publications (CA) (June 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159212030X
• ISBN-13: 978-1592120307
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #411,040 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Awful..Smut, November 8, 1999

By	Fosky Bob "human" (Vacaville, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Villainy Victorious (Mission Earth Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

The decision to throw Soltan Gris in prison in vol. 7 and remove him as narrator is really hard to defend. There's nothing that couldn't have been done better with Gris still running around the Confederacy wreaking havoc. Monte Pennwell was an atrocious idea. I suspect Hubbard died before the series was finished with someone else finishing it off, assuming the Pennwell identity to mask a different writing style. (Else Hubbard is truly a master of voice..since most writers carry their writing tone in everything they write)

Skip over the chapters involving Teenie, unless you're a undersexed teenager. Awful, awful stuff. Base two books around the worst characters (Teenie and Madison) in the series? What were they thinking?

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pornography poorly done, July 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Villainy Victorious (Paperback)

Hubbard's writing is so poor that reading these volumes take more and more will power than, I hope, most readers will have. The sexual content is also getting more and more pornographic . . . if you want to read a good science fiction book ( and none of the Mission Earth books could be called good science fiction) then try Robert A. Heinlein's uncut "Stranger in a Strange Land."

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible!, June 23, 2000

By	Alexander French "Internet dude" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Villainy Victorious (Mission Earth Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

This guy really can't write. I've heard so much about Hubbard, so I picked this book up on a whim. It's the worst-written sci-fi book I've ever tried to read. The dialogue is incredibly artificial and the plot is pretty thin. I only managed to get a couple of chapters in. Don't bother.