Voyage of Vengeance (Mission Earth Series) [Turtleback]

L. Ron Hubbard (Author)

Product Details

• Turtleback
• Publisher: Demco Media (June 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606086730
• ISBN-13: 978-0606086738
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,991,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 230 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Paralyzingly slow and nauseatingly sadistic, January 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Voyage of Vengeance (Mission Earth, Vol 7) (Paperback)

If this book is "science fiction at its very best," then I'm ready to give up the genre and read nothing but cheesy soft-core romance novels for the rest of my life. As L. Ron Hubbard (or the Scientologists assigned to ghost-write this dreck for him...Hubbard died in 1986 and it is widely believe this series was finished by other writers) realizes that even he can't fill this series up with any more subplots, we get several hundred pages of filler before the series finally turns in on itself and resolves things in the next book, "Disaster." The so-called "voyage" of this voluminous corpse of a book involves our "hero" Soltan Gris, as he is trapped on a yacht with Teenie Whopper the teenage nymphomaniac; the two of them take a sea tour of the Mediterranean Sea and resident countries in a fashion that mirrors L. Ron Hubbard's own voyages through that area. (While he was fleeing capture on his own ship, the "Apollo," Hubbard spent time sneaking around the Mediterranean, occasionally coming ashore, and hatching plots to expand Scientology in the Middle East and Africa. Most notable was his attempt to take over an African nation!) When Gris screws up and blows Teenie's plan down the drain, he finally comes back home to oversee his seemingly endless mission to disrupt Jettero Heller's plan to save the Earth. Heller finally breaks the plans of J. Warbler Madman, and we're treated to a lovely scene in which the passengers of a 747 airliner are mercilessly slaughtered by aliens, while Soltan Gris cheers them on.

"Science fiction at its best?" If you've managed to make your way this far, then be assured that the next book, "Disaster," actually gets down to some real action and is a lot easier to read than "Voyage of Vengance" or the SIX paralyzingly slow-moving books that precede it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Read the Previous Review, November 6, 1999

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

This review is from: Voyage of Vengeance (Mission Earth, Vol 7) (Paperback)

The previous review is fantastic. The story is readable..nothing more. And the nymphomaniac angle?..please...it gets so boring. All Hubbard writes about is sex, sex, sex. I'm starting to think he had a complex. As to the previous reviewers assertion that some of this was ghostwritten, I 100% agree. Starting with the second half of the 7th book, the author's tone changes noticeably..and declines in quality.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As Detailed..., July 16, 2010

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Bill Fry "Just Another Day In Paradise" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Voyage of Vengeance (Mission Earth) (Paperback)

The books arrived on time and in perfect condition. They finished off my collection perfectly. Now, to find time to read...