Disaster

This series was not only immensely entertaining, but also made me think about the various problems of our planet(which are touched on throughout the series) and what we can do to avert disaster. A fun read!

In this book, it really seems like the story is coming to an end, instead here's still so much to read!!! Gris, the bad guy, who has been narrating so far, is now now longer in the right position to keep narrating, nor does he know certain aspects of how the story develops, so the writer, very surprisingly, switches narrator! It's hard to get accustomed to a new one, after having read 7 and half book narrated by Soltan Gris, with his dark humor and so on, this narrator is completely different... but I don't want to spoil the surprise. Let's just say that this narrator, thought in a different way and with a different writing style, can still tell you what happened! and keep you glued to the book! I cannot wait to get the next 2 volumes in the mail!

In this book, the assasin Apparatus agent Soltan Gris gets what he deserves! The action in this one makes for a fast read. It is by far the fastest moving book in the series. The hero Jettero Heller is under fire, and caught in a dangerous death plummet from a high-rise office building in Manhatten. The New York Mafia are under aerial assault. The United States is about to declare war. The world's oil supply is declared radioactive and owned by an alien! At the same time there is now a black hole now in orbit around the Earth and a mountain of ice is plunging toward Earth! This book 8 of the Mission Earth Series is non-stop! It takes off and keeps rocketing! I loved this one the best of all to this point in the series, because finally things start to go better for Heller and horrible for the villian Soltan Gris. If you read to this point in the series you will be delighted with the outcome of this one, and the mystery of the next two novels will compel you to read on! I found this one to be a lot of good classic action!

I loved all of these stories. I could not stop once I started them. The pacing is great. The satire is great. Hubbard has a fantastic and witty sense of humor. These stories also really they get you thinking. Love them all.

The 10 volume Mission Earth series ranks as one of my favorite sci-fi stories. Reading Hubbard's books really taught me what a "page-turner" was. I lost a lot of sleep over his merciless cliffhanger chapter endings. Let me also add that his books are very easy to read--he never lets the writing get in the way of the story in Mission Earth. I had read a lot of Burroughs, Heinlein, Herbert and Asimov before I ever encountered Hubbard, and though his writing style and tone did not strike me as being as profound as those authors, his subject matter is just as deep, and he is perhaps even more entertaining. I avoided Mission Earth and Battlefield Earth for years after they came out because of a poorly understood link between Hubbard and Scientology. I assumed that the novels would be somehow strange and "cultish," whatever that means. Now I wish I would have read his books while he was still alive, so I could have sent him fan mail.Please excuse me while I get to work on that letter to Dan Simmons!