What do You think about Black Genesis (1986)?
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!
—Reading
