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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 000500   louvel | Aug 4, 2009 |  Having to state at the beginning of a book that it is a satire is the same as someone telling you they're a celebrity: if they have to tell you, they really are not. This book is more of a disappointment due to the expectation set by "Battlefield Earth." I am extremely thankful that I did not invest in the other nine volumes of this ponderous "saga". (  ) mclay2007 | May 23, 2007 | 
 [A] paralyzingly slow-moving adventure enlivened by interludes of kinky sex, sendups of effeminate homosexuals and a disregard of conventional grammar so global as to suggest a satire on the possibility of communication through language.
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0884042820, Mass Market Paperback)From Lord Invay, Royal Historian, Chairman, Board of Censors, Royal Palace, Voltar Confederacy:"Let me state it boldly and baldly: there is no such planet as 'Earth.' "If it ever existed at all, it certainly does not exist today or even within living memory. "So, away with this delusion. "On the authority of every highly placed official in the land I can assure you utterly and finally, THERE IS NO PLANET EARTH! And that is final!" With this emphatic disclaimer, we are introduced to MISSION EARTH, an epic told entirely and uniquely by the aliens that already walk among us. Earth is to be invaded and a Royal combat engineer must cross 22 light years to secretly infiltrate the planet. He is also crossing a scheme to use the resources of Earth's most powerful figure to overthrow the confederacy. With a convicted murderess who trains giant cat-like animals, a doctor who creates human biological freaks, a madman who controls Voltar's secret police, and clandestine Earth base in Turkey, a bizarre stage is set and narrated by an alien killer assigned to sabotage the mission and Earth - the planet that doesn't exist. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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