Mission Earth
by L. Ron Hubbard · first published 1998
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Putting the scientology stuff to one side for a moment, L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth and Mission Earth books are fun pulp sci-fi, good for summer holiday reading.
on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗I liked his books. That's all that matters to me. I do not give a flying hoot about what kind of a man he was in real life nor am I interested to know. Similar example - L. Ron Hubbard. I like his Mission Earth and I really do not need to know about the rest of his life.
on “Frequent Gunfire: What Was It Like to Be Ernest Hemingway? (2017)” ↗Mission earth was phenomenal. It’s too bad I can’t get anyone to read Hubbard. They are missing out.
on “Remarkable things about Battlefield Earth (2012)” ↗L. Ron Hubbard definitely. Mission Earth is without question the greatest dekology of all time.
on “Which Writers Will We Remember?” ↗Will - G. Gordon Liddy Mission Earth - L. Ron Hubbard
on “Ask HN: What are the best books for professional effectiveness?” ↗I love long books just fine. Like "Mission Earth" by Ron Habbard or "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George Martin or Asimov etc. etc
on “Good riddance to long books” ↗I loved both - Battlefield Earth and Mission Earth. Still do. Sure it is not Fahrenheit 451 but I do not care. It provides lots of interesting reading. As for blogs - I've never liked reading about books. I lover reading books instead. I am a bookoholic
on “Remarkable things about Battlefield Earth (2012)” ↗…Ayn Rand BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee 1984 by George Orwell ANTHEM by Ayn Rand WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard There are still gems in these lists, I'm just surprised that many of these made the list, especially some of the high ranking ones. Something seems off.
on “100 Best English Nonfiction Books of Twentieth Century” ↗L Ron Hubbard - Mission Earth
on “Ask HN: What's the Best Book on Religion” ↗I'd be interested in seeing either Frederick Pohl's Heechee series or Ben Bova's Grand Tour series. For batshit insanity and HBO skinflick appeal, maybe L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth.
on “Ask HN: Which SciFi novel(s) would you want made into a TV series?” ↗You can do what they did for L. Ron Hubbard's doorstop-ology "Mission Earth", where they'd buy the books in stores, give them back to the publisher, and buy them from the stores again. Booksellers were noticing that the books which came from the publisher already had their…
on “How did “Handbook for Mortals” get on the NYT bestseller list?” ↗I was that way until I took up the "Mission Earth" series by L Ron Hubbard. I did make it through a few books before it just got too terrible and I was like, "why am I doing this to myself?". And I say that as someone who rather liked "Battlefield Earth".
on “The Gamification of Reading Is Changing How We Approach Books” ↗Something from l Ron Hubbard’s mission earth scifi series has stuck with me for years. Basically in preparation for an undercover mission to earth the protagonist (who’s more of an antagonist really) goes to a place in his city full of fusion plants…
on “ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC” ↗…ten times before age 20. I think it's a fairly childish and simplistic novel, but it is VERY long, and that is what I was looking for as a 13 year old voracious reader in the 90s. I moved on to LRH's 'Mission Earth' decalogy. It's substantially weirder, with some sexual themes that seemed to my teenage self to be pretty far out of left field. But, again - it was very long. It gave me months of reading about a sci-fi…
on “Remarkable things about Battlefield Earth (2012)” ↗Also as a teen, I made it to around the 6th book of 'Mission Earth' before I just couldn't anymore. It was weirdly sexual, fairly bad, but the sense of scale was fun, and there were occasionally interesting sci fi thingies thrown in. 4/10.
on “Remarkable things about Battlefield Earth (2012)” ↗