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Black Genesis (1986)

Black Genesis (1986)

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3.39 of 5 Votes: 4
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ISBN
1592121810 (ISBN13: 9781592121816)
Language
English
Publisher
bridge publications (ca)

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This is the second in a series of ten books about a double-crossing alien agent trying to foil plans for an invasion of Earth. It sounds interesting, but it's really no more than a vessel for Scientologist ideology and LRH's personal vendetta against the federal government. And while I'm not entirely dismissive of certain Scientology concepts or antipathy towards the government, they are handled with such indelicacy and so greatly lack subtlety that it's hard to take the narrative seriously. That said, even though the humor is sophomoric, there are times where I laughed out loud. Unfortunately, this is one of the few things the book has going for it. The world building is non existent. The characters, with one exception, are one dimensional. The plot is meandering, convoluted, and mostly irrelevant. And yet, despite all of these negatives, there is one character that LRH was successful in creating--the alien agent, Soltan Gris. He's the narrator--neurotic and disturbed, a bundle of self-loathing and self-doubt, and an embodiment of all the things that Scientology despises. His inner-monologue is hilarious. His surveillance voyeur fetishism is downright bizarre. He's a villain, an antihero, and an unlikely protagonist all wrapped up into one. His goal is to (selfishly) save the Earth from an impending alien attack, but how can he do that when he can't even save the book from tired cliches, bad writing, and zero plot? 1.5 stars. Typically I round up, but I'm rounding down. The first book was better, but not by much. I'll probably give book 3 a shot sometime in the future, but I may need psychiatric help after I'm through--and the irony wouldn't be lost on me.

Two stars again for the second book! But the author added some action scenes on this one. The Aliens already landed on our planet and that's on Turkey. The main Extraterrestrial character was still familiarizing about the do's and don'ts of our planet Earth and he can easily adapt to it. But I like the flow of this book compared to the previous one. And I also agree about the real causes of drugs in every country/society, which L. Ron Hubbard explained on this book... That other countries use drugs in order to manipulate and control the government and citizens of other targeted countries.

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Black Genesis, book 2 in the Mission Earth series, is mainly about the arrival of an alien Voltarian agent Jettero Heller with a secret mission to reduce the pollution of Earth and prevent the primitive population destroying the planet before the Voltar Empire is ready to conquer it. The story is told by Heller's supervisor Soltan Gris who also has a secret order by his superior - to stop Heller from succeeding, preferably as painfully and terminatively as possible. Which Soltan will be only happy to do, as he hates the perfect boy scout Heller who is everything Soltan is not - handsome, rich, loved and admired by everyone and by women especially, and to Soltan's dismay, way too lucky. Soltan himself is self-interested, cruel, murdering, sexist, rasist, homophobic and a clever (but not as much as he thinks he is) (bleepard), but his comments are really a fun to read. This book includes a key to main characters and other important terms and also a recap of the first book, but I'd really advise to read Book 1 first, as it will be much easier to understand what's going on. Some people may be worried about how much scientology is in this book and series. I, as someone not really familiar with it, except that I vaguely know that scientology is somehow against psychology/ists, I have to say I didn't notice it at all, except some rants against psychology. Also this book is quite definitely for adults, as it contains everything from murders to a whorehouse and more.I'd recommend this book and series if you want to rest your brain and if you don't mind a lot of social satire that you might not always agree with.
—Dovile

Absolute drivel. I am wondering if I can be bothered to go write this on all the books of the series that I actually managed to slog through, and I might. Been reading sci-fi since I remember myself and almost never have I dropped a book halfway through. I really tried with this "epic" series, really did. On book 4 now and have decided that there is no way I am devoting another precious minute of my life to this.The story has something in it, but there are so many unnecessary twists and turns, totally pointless and adding nothing to the narrative. The weird is too crazy, the strange is stupid, in short - avoid this book.Cannot believe it is written by the author of Battlefield Earth!
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