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Available
Series
Collection
Publication
Bridge Pubns (1991), Edition: Movie Tie-In, 1050 pages
Description
Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML: A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard s Battlefield Earth opens with breathtaking scope on an Earth dominated for 1,000 years by an alien invader and man is an endangered species. From the handful of surviving humans a courageous leader emerges Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, who challenges the invincible might of the alien Psychlo empire in a battle of epic scale, danger and intrigue with the fate of the Earth and of the universe in the tenuous balance..
Media reviews
Kirkus Review
Tight plotting, furious action and have at 'em entertainment.
Rocky Mountain News
If you like the kind of fast, unrelenting 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' action, then this is the book for you. It's a real page turner."
Robert Heinlein
"A Terrific Story"
Neil Gaiman
"Over 1,000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens and noble humans. I found Battlefield Earth un-put-downable."
User reviews
LibraryThing member gmanrodt
Horrid. Absolutely horrid. I must first, for honesty's sake, unashamedly admit that gave up on this book at page 511. I figure if you read 500 pages of a book and you still hate it, it is time to quit.
The characters the Hubbard portrays are lifeless, cardboard, cliché caricatures. The Psychlos
Hubbard’s writing style leaves much to be desired. He uses clichés, is very wordy, and repetitive. It is mind-boggling that he is able to fill so many pages, while saying so little. All that being said, however, my biggest complaint was how unrealistic his character dialog’s were. No one talks like this. I have seen B-Movies with better dialog.
All in all, I would recommend reading ANYTHING else. I have not read a book this bad in memory.
The characters the Hubbard portrays are lifeless, cardboard, cliché caricatures. The Psychlos
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are flat and stupid. To be continually outwitted by a farmboy, using their own technology, was eventually too much to take. Hubbard’s writing style leaves much to be desired. He uses clichés, is very wordy, and repetitive. It is mind-boggling that he is able to fill so many pages, while saying so little. All that being said, however, my biggest complaint was how unrealistic his character dialog’s were. No one talks like this. I have seen B-Movies with better dialog.
All in all, I would recommend reading ANYTHING else. I have not read a book this bad in memory.
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LibraryThing member TadAD
Let's see:
Cardboard characters...check!
Unbelievable plot...check!
Bad science...check!
Poor writing skills...check!
Yep, it's got it all.
But, by my own standards, I couldn't give it the ½ star rating it really deserves. I had such a sick fascination with it that I actually skimmed through the middle
Oh, I forgot to mention the introduction Mr. Hubbard wrote for the book that evidenced an ego the size of California.
Do not buy this book!
Cardboard characters...check!
Unbelievable plot...check!
Bad science...check!
Poor writing skills...check!
Yep, it's got it all.
But, by my own standards, I couldn't give it the ½ star rating it really deserves. I had such a sick fascination with it that I actually skimmed through the middle
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700 pages to find out how this gobbler was brought to an end. That would make it a 1½ star book. Impossible!...I'll average it to 1 star.Oh, I forgot to mention the introduction Mr. Hubbard wrote for the book that evidenced an ego the size of California.
Do not buy this book!
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LibraryThing member jdayrutherford
I think it is suffcient to say "AWFUL". Just way to long to waste time on.
LibraryThing member cameronl
Good science fiction? No. But pure pulp. Fun, stupid read. Just check your brain at the door.
LibraryThing member KevlarRelic
Man, did I love this book.
First of all, I was entranced by the way it all worked out, sometimes in ways that I couldn't imagine, yet still logical. I always love to be surprised.
Secondly, I loved to watch a struggling underdog overcome the insurmountable odds against him. After I finished reading
And finally, it's HUGE! And that just means there is more of a good thing.
So, if you're like me, kinda into science fiction, and you ( thank god ) haven't had your expectations soiled by the god-awful movie, check this book out!
First of all, I was entranced by the way it all worked out, sometimes in ways that I couldn't imagine, yet still logical. I always love to be surprised.
Secondly, I loved to watch a struggling underdog overcome the insurmountable odds against him. After I finished reading
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this book I wanted to put a poster of the main character, Johnny, on my bedroom wall, that's how cool I think he is.And finally, it's HUGE! And that just means there is more of a good thing.
So, if you're like me, kinda into science fiction, and you ( thank god ) haven't had your expectations soiled by the god-awful movie, check this book out!
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LibraryThing member antao
“Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ's sakes! … We were sitting around one night... who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he
In "The Real Harlan Ellison" from Wings Interview (November-December 1978) p. 32”
In 1990 I read a Hubbard novel thinking it was science fiction. It was a fine sleep-inducing bit. The 1100 pages of "Battlefield Earth" could induce a lengthy coma. Like a fool, I finished it and discovered afterwards that I had forgotten how to read. It was weeks before I could read another book. It was comically awful, and implied quite strongly that Hubbard was a mysogynist and who enjoyed quite weirdly sexualised prose. I'm hardly a paragon of political correctness, but I found it to be in fairly poor taste. Scientology was small at the time, and I knew then that it was a cult, but I assumed too few people would be stupid enough for it to proliferate into the monster it is today. I underestimated the stupidity of celebrities I guess.
Back in my awkward teenage SF hoarding years (as opposed to my current awkward 50-something clutter-hoarding years), I picked up the first book in the Mission Earth “dekalogy”. Mission Earth (all ten, there was a blurb on the back of all of them saying that they had to invent a new word "dekalogy" to describe the magnificence of Hubbard's achievement!). If you really want the full dose of Hubbard crazy, Mission Earth is the series to read (not “Battlefield Earth). Even back then the homophobia, anti-psycologist rhetoric, a healthy dose of misogyny, and so much more was simply horrifying. Even while reading it I was horrified, but I still read all ten crappy books.
Re-reading “Battlefield Earth” now I wasn’t able to finish it, perhaps reading 100 pages or so, which is a trait that I picked up a long time ago and have cherished ever since. I've always been able to close a book or walk out of a movie. But I still don’t know why I kept “Battlefield Earth” for over 30 years in my home library…
Hubbard was a cynical scumbag who made himself rich by literally making up an absurd pseudo-religion. But despite his character flaws and his dubious legacy, Hubbard's short novels for Campbell's “Unknown Worlds” and “Astounding Stories” in the 40s are generally pretty spiffy and worth reading. I'm speaking of “Final Blackout”, “Fear”, Typewriter in the Sky”, “Slaves of Sleep”, and “Death's Deputy”. A pity we're unlikely to see any of these reprinted nowadays.
I propose promoting chimps to human status and demoting these dipshits because of their wanton disregard for human intelligence. My dog is smarter than these.
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said "This bullshit's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich". And somebody said, "why don't you invent a new religion? They're always big." We were clowning! You know, "Become Elmer Gantry! You'll make a fortune!" He says, "I'm going to do it."In "The Real Harlan Ellison" from Wings Interview (November-December 1978) p. 32”
In 1990 I read a Hubbard novel thinking it was science fiction. It was a fine sleep-inducing bit. The 1100 pages of "Battlefield Earth" could induce a lengthy coma. Like a fool, I finished it and discovered afterwards that I had forgotten how to read. It was weeks before I could read another book. It was comically awful, and implied quite strongly that Hubbard was a mysogynist and who enjoyed quite weirdly sexualised prose. I'm hardly a paragon of political correctness, but I found it to be in fairly poor taste. Scientology was small at the time, and I knew then that it was a cult, but I assumed too few people would be stupid enough for it to proliferate into the monster it is today. I underestimated the stupidity of celebrities I guess.
Back in my awkward teenage SF hoarding years (as opposed to my current awkward 50-something clutter-hoarding years), I picked up the first book in the Mission Earth “dekalogy”. Mission Earth (all ten, there was a blurb on the back of all of them saying that they had to invent a new word "dekalogy" to describe the magnificence of Hubbard's achievement!). If you really want the full dose of Hubbard crazy, Mission Earth is the series to read (not “Battlefield Earth). Even back then the homophobia, anti-psycologist rhetoric, a healthy dose of misogyny, and so much more was simply horrifying. Even while reading it I was horrified, but I still read all ten crappy books.
Re-reading “Battlefield Earth” now I wasn’t able to finish it, perhaps reading 100 pages or so, which is a trait that I picked up a long time ago and have cherished ever since. I've always been able to close a book or walk out of a movie. But I still don’t know why I kept “Battlefield Earth” for over 30 years in my home library…
Hubbard was a cynical scumbag who made himself rich by literally making up an absurd pseudo-religion. But despite his character flaws and his dubious legacy, Hubbard's short novels for Campbell's “Unknown Worlds” and “Astounding Stories” in the 40s are generally pretty spiffy and worth reading. I'm speaking of “Final Blackout”, “Fear”, Typewriter in the Sky”, “Slaves of Sleep”, and “Death's Deputy”. A pity we're unlikely to see any of these reprinted nowadays.
I propose promoting chimps to human status and demoting these dipshits because of their wanton disregard for human intelligence. My dog is smarter than these.
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LibraryThing member RobertDay
I picked this up to read because a well-known fan had assured me (and lots of other people) that this was so bad, it was good.
It wasn't. It was worse than that.
It wasn't. It was worse than that.
LibraryThing member etimme
One dimensional space epic with no complex themes. The internal dialogue is formulaic and clumsy and the good/evil conflicts are too transparent to enjoy. I put the book down after 344 pages at the point that Terl tries to kill Johnny Goodboy after getting his gold and couldn't pick it back up. The
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LibraryThing member Bruce_Deming
This is the best book I ever read in scope and smooth development of character and plot. Quite epic.
Mr Hubbard entirely escaped my attention when in my retail book selling days and I rather thought he was a fiction as a fiction writer, likely because I wasn't much of a Sci Fi reader and many of his
The main character is nice and bright and caring and simple who has a lot to learn and a lot of problems to solve to prevent the extinction of people, the human race. Pretty dramatic.
The suspense factor of having so many problems introduced that need resolution just kept me on the edge of my seat, or up late late at night, to find out how it would all end.
I'm glad I read this book. Even 7 times or so. I have a tendency to do that with my favorite stories. Did that with Lord of The Rings and some of the Oz books when younger. I guess I marveled at such creativity.
The first time I read Battlefield Earth, I thought the story would be over about midway through after the main intensely suspenseful military segment was concluding and I thought "What more could there be?" but what followed was diplomacy, finance and a peace tome economy to build among other things.
I guess we hear so little of such things in the news that that is why I expected it to end with the military climax....
I expect the upcoming unabridged audiobook to be supe
Mr Hubbard entirely escaped my attention when in my retail book selling days and I rather thought he was a fiction as a fiction writer, likely because I wasn't much of a Sci Fi reader and many of his
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earlier titles were not in print on trade lines. I tended towards historical novels, and the creativeness of the accompanying art of the sci fi genre was not really understood or appreciated by me yet even though we sold a ton of books with Frank Frazetta artwork I was not in the creative groove here.The main character is nice and bright and caring and simple who has a lot to learn and a lot of problems to solve to prevent the extinction of people, the human race. Pretty dramatic.
The suspense factor of having so many problems introduced that need resolution just kept me on the edge of my seat, or up late late at night, to find out how it would all end.
I'm glad I read this book. Even 7 times or so. I have a tendency to do that with my favorite stories. Did that with Lord of The Rings and some of the Oz books when younger. I guess I marveled at such creativity.
The first time I read Battlefield Earth, I thought the story would be over about midway through after the main intensely suspenseful military segment was concluding and I thought "What more could there be?" but what followed was diplomacy, finance and a peace tome economy to build among other things.
I guess we hear so little of such things in the news that that is why I expected it to end with the military climax....
I expect the upcoming unabridged audiobook to be supe
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LibraryThing member nsenger
Think of the 'Star Wars' sagas and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' mix in the triumph of 'Rocky I,' 'Rocky II,' and 'Rocky III,' and you have captured the exuberance, style and glory of 'BATTLEFIELD EARTH.'
It was the above blurb from The Evening Sun in 1984 that convinced me to take a chance on a
It's the year 3000, and Earth has been conquered for a thousand years by the vicious Psychlos, an alien race that is gutting the planet of its mineral resources. Humanity has been reduced to around 50,000 people, scattered in primitive communities around the globe, barely hanging on. High in the Rocky Mountains, Johnny Goodboy Tyler becomes fed up with his village's meager existence and decides to set out to find a safer place to live. While exploring the ruins of the ancient city of Denver, he encounters Terl, the Psychlo security chief on Earth. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that becomes one wild ride after another as Johnny tries to single-handedly take the planet back.
Battlefield Earth is non-stop action and adventure--space opera at its finest. The story hearkens back to the golden age of science fiction, with spaceship battles, alien technology, cliffhangers, and impossible odds. It also suffers from some of the same limitations of vintage science fiction: weak (and nearly non-existent) women characters, stereotyped villains, unbelievable escapes. But those limitations are more than made up for by the tight plotting, unrelenting action, and sheer exuberance of the story. You almost need a bowl of popcorn while you're reading it.
Speaking of popcorn, avoid the movie version of Battlefield Earth starring John Travolta. Some call it the worst movie ever made, and it was named "Worst Picture of the Decade (2000-2009)." at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards. The movie only covers the first half of the book, and suffers from "hammy acting,...mediocre special effects, corny dialogue, and several plot inconsistencies." Thankfully, I've never seen it, because I didn't want to ruin my experience of the book. But if you've suffered through the movie, don't judge the book by what you saw. And if you happened to like the movie, then chances are you will love the book.
Battlefield Earth is vintage science fiction on steroids. It's not perfect, but it's a whole lot of fun.
It was the above blurb from The Evening Sun in 1984 that convinced me to take a chance on a
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1,000-page science fiction novel, and I have never regretted it. It's been over twenty years since I last read Battlefield Earth, and it's still as much fun as I remembered. It remains one of my top two or three favorite science fiction novels of all time.It's the year 3000, and Earth has been conquered for a thousand years by the vicious Psychlos, an alien race that is gutting the planet of its mineral resources. Humanity has been reduced to around 50,000 people, scattered in primitive communities around the globe, barely hanging on. High in the Rocky Mountains, Johnny Goodboy Tyler becomes fed up with his village's meager existence and decides to set out to find a safer place to live. While exploring the ruins of the ancient city of Denver, he encounters Terl, the Psychlo security chief on Earth. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that becomes one wild ride after another as Johnny tries to single-handedly take the planet back.
Battlefield Earth is non-stop action and adventure--space opera at its finest. The story hearkens back to the golden age of science fiction, with spaceship battles, alien technology, cliffhangers, and impossible odds. It also suffers from some of the same limitations of vintage science fiction: weak (and nearly non-existent) women characters, stereotyped villains, unbelievable escapes. But those limitations are more than made up for by the tight plotting, unrelenting action, and sheer exuberance of the story. You almost need a bowl of popcorn while you're reading it.
Speaking of popcorn, avoid the movie version of Battlefield Earth starring John Travolta. Some call it the worst movie ever made, and it was named "Worst Picture of the Decade (2000-2009)." at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards. The movie only covers the first half of the book, and suffers from "hammy acting,...mediocre special effects, corny dialogue, and several plot inconsistencies." Thankfully, I've never seen it, because I didn't want to ruin my experience of the book. But if you've suffered through the movie, don't judge the book by what you saw. And if you happened to like the movie, then chances are you will love the book.
Battlefield Earth is vintage science fiction on steroids. It's not perfect, but it's a whole lot of fun.
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LibraryThing member cmc
This book is so bad, after I'd read it the first time, and some time had passed, I couldn't believe it could be as bad as I remembered it being. But it was.
LibraryThing member Bruce_Deming
This is the best book I ever read in scope and smooth development of character and plot. Quite epic.
Mr Hubbard entirely escaped my attention when in my retail book selling days and I rather thought he was a fiction as a fiction writer, likely because I wasn't much of a Sci Fi reader and many of his
The main character is nice and bright and caring and simple who has a lot to learn and a lot of problems to solve to prevent the extinction of people, the human race. Pretty dramatic. An old library in a city with a long gone population give him the first clues to knowledge.
The suspense factor of having so many problems introduced that need resolution just kept me on the edge of my seat, or up late late at night, to find out how it would all end.
I'm glad I read this book. Even 7 times or so. I have a tendency to do that with my favorite stories. Did that with Lord of The Rings and some of the Oz books when younger. I guess I marveled at such creativity.
I expect the upcoming unabridged audiobook to be superb. The best editions for reading are the latest from galaxy press. Good design and fonts etc.
Mr Hubbard entirely escaped my attention when in my retail book selling days and I rather thought he was a fiction as a fiction writer, likely because I wasn't much of a Sci Fi reader and many of his
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earlier titles were not in print on trade lines. I tended towards historical novels, and the creativeness of the accompanying art of the sci fi genre was not really understood or appreciated by me yet even though we sold a ton of books with Boris Vallejo artwork I was not in the creative groove here.The main character is nice and bright and caring and simple who has a lot to learn and a lot of problems to solve to prevent the extinction of people, the human race. Pretty dramatic. An old library in a city with a long gone population give him the first clues to knowledge.
The suspense factor of having so many problems introduced that need resolution just kept me on the edge of my seat, or up late late at night, to find out how it would all end.
I'm glad I read this book. Even 7 times or so. I have a tendency to do that with my favorite stories. Did that with Lord of The Rings and some of the Oz books when younger. I guess I marveled at such creativity.
I expect the upcoming unabridged audiobook to be superb. The best editions for reading are the latest from galaxy press. Good design and fonts etc.
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LibraryThing member PTBooks
I wasn't a big science fiction fan until I read this book. The characters and plot were so interesting I was annoyed when I had to stop reading the book to go to work. The bad guys are despicable and the good guys are awesome. I highly recommend it, even if you are not a science fiction fan.
LibraryThing member jonbee56
This is the reason I joined 'Library Thing'.
The book is so bad that I had to read it all to tell people how bad it is. Without reading it, I could not state a warranted opinion.
The only good thing about the author was the way he found the tax avoidance loophole by creating the Church of
You just gotta give credit where it's due
The book is so bad that I had to read it all to tell people how bad it is. Without reading it, I could not state a warranted opinion.
The only good thing about the author was the way he found the tax avoidance loophole by creating the Church of
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Scientology. You just gotta give credit where it's due
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LibraryThing member jspringbrinkley
Literally could not put this book down. One of my favorites, but I refuse to watch the ridiculous looking John Travolta movie.
LibraryThing member Linda.Bass
I received this book in exchange for an honest review an was amazed at the foresight of this author! This book is not a fast read, but it goes into detail of what could happen if ruthless aliens decided they wanted the riches of our planet and would stop at nothing to take them! Not even earth's
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combined military is enough to stop the Psychlos from achieving their mission, but one lone boy/man is captured, treated like an animal until he has the chance to save earth, but Johnnie Tyler wonders how he can achieve the impossible when all of earth's superpowers couldn't? One thing he knows is it is better to die trying than be kept in a cage as an animal...... Show Less
LibraryThing member TomDonaghey
BATTLEFIELD EARTH: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard is his 1982 Opus Grande. This is a stirring example of what in England is called a "Boys Own Adventure." This genre is directed more to the younger male readers in the crowd looking for action and adventure with a minimum of romance
BATTLEFIELD EARTH may just be the pinnacle of this arch-type. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler sets out from his small, dying village high in the Rocky Mountains, in search of a better place to life for the small group of humans he represents. Below in the valley are monsters, or so the stories go, but he doesn't believe in the stories. Leaving his best girl behind, Jonnie sets off on his faithful horse, looking for a better world. But the Earth was conquered by the Psychlos almost a thousand years before. They are an alien race, ten foot tall, a thousand pounds of meanness on average, without any concern for the animals that used to rule this world. They are miners, extracting the wealth of the planet and teleporting it back to the home world.
Captured after a fight, Jonnie has to figure out how to escape, save his people and destroy the Psychlos. All this happens within the first 50 pages of this near 1000 page soft Sci-Fi action story. Captured by Terl, the Head of Security for the entire planet, and a more greedy, ruthless character has yet to be written, Jonnie feels there is a chance when he is sent to recruit some remaining Scots into a plan for mining gold. Together with the doughty Scots, they devise a way to fight the Psychlos and perhaps win their planet back.
But the Earthlings do not realize there are worse things in the galaxy than the dreaded Psychlos, and before they can be truly free, Jonnie and his band must face the entire might of many galaxies.
I listened to the magnificent 44 disc recording of the book. Using state-of-the-art audio enhancements, music and a cast of over 60 voice actors, the story sprang from the pages in an imagery seldom envisioned this side of a movie screen. From horses clopping across the deserted plains to Galactic Class Star Cruises and Battle Dreadnoughts thrumming with potential death and destruction, blasters firing and cities in flames, the effects add a complex extra dimension to the story, something I have noted before in other audio releases from Galaxy Press.
L. Ron Hubbard could always write a fast-paced, thrill a minute story sure to entrance his audience and win accolades, but he wrote this story more for himself than an outside reader. As such there are no wasted pages or paragraphs, each scene builds upon the last and every chapter leads to a bigger, more all-encompassing tale. Like his MISSION EARTH DEKALOGY, this book seems a dauntless task to read, yet they both were thrilling tales that enchanted you into wanting to read just a few more pages.
And like all great reads, BATTLEFIELD EARTH left me both exhausted and wanting more.
This is a must read for so many types of readers I won't even begin to list them. The physical book is a page turner while the audio version will remind all who listen that radio was the greatest vehicle for imagery of it's time simply because each listener had to create the world from just sound and the worlds thereby created were in so many ways richer and deeper than that intended by the writer.
If you haven't read this yet, now is the time to begin.
I won both the book and audio collection through the goo people at LibraryThing and Galaxy Press.
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getting in the way. These stories are thrilling adventures that can be set any where and at any time. They typically have a put upon young male lead who has to fight against over-whelming forces but will somehow gain the day in the end. Our hero must rely on his strength, wits and determination, as well as his natural abilities in leadership and honor to beat the oppressors and save the girl.BATTLEFIELD EARTH may just be the pinnacle of this arch-type. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler sets out from his small, dying village high in the Rocky Mountains, in search of a better place to life for the small group of humans he represents. Below in the valley are monsters, or so the stories go, but he doesn't believe in the stories. Leaving his best girl behind, Jonnie sets off on his faithful horse, looking for a better world. But the Earth was conquered by the Psychlos almost a thousand years before. They are an alien race, ten foot tall, a thousand pounds of meanness on average, without any concern for the animals that used to rule this world. They are miners, extracting the wealth of the planet and teleporting it back to the home world.
Captured after a fight, Jonnie has to figure out how to escape, save his people and destroy the Psychlos. All this happens within the first 50 pages of this near 1000 page soft Sci-Fi action story. Captured by Terl, the Head of Security for the entire planet, and a more greedy, ruthless character has yet to be written, Jonnie feels there is a chance when he is sent to recruit some remaining Scots into a plan for mining gold. Together with the doughty Scots, they devise a way to fight the Psychlos and perhaps win their planet back.
But the Earthlings do not realize there are worse things in the galaxy than the dreaded Psychlos, and before they can be truly free, Jonnie and his band must face the entire might of many galaxies.
I listened to the magnificent 44 disc recording of the book. Using state-of-the-art audio enhancements, music and a cast of over 60 voice actors, the story sprang from the pages in an imagery seldom envisioned this side of a movie screen. From horses clopping across the deserted plains to Galactic Class Star Cruises and Battle Dreadnoughts thrumming with potential death and destruction, blasters firing and cities in flames, the effects add a complex extra dimension to the story, something I have noted before in other audio releases from Galaxy Press.
L. Ron Hubbard could always write a fast-paced, thrill a minute story sure to entrance his audience and win accolades, but he wrote this story more for himself than an outside reader. As such there are no wasted pages or paragraphs, each scene builds upon the last and every chapter leads to a bigger, more all-encompassing tale. Like his MISSION EARTH DEKALOGY, this book seems a dauntless task to read, yet they both were thrilling tales that enchanted you into wanting to read just a few more pages.
And like all great reads, BATTLEFIELD EARTH left me both exhausted and wanting more.
This is a must read for so many types of readers I won't even begin to list them. The physical book is a page turner while the audio version will remind all who listen that radio was the greatest vehicle for imagery of it's time simply because each listener had to create the world from just sound and the worlds thereby created were in so many ways richer and deeper than that intended by the writer.
If you haven't read this yet, now is the time to begin.
I won both the book and audio collection through the goo people at LibraryThing and Galaxy Press.
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LibraryThing member bemislibrary
This pulp fiction story has all the basics. Hubbard includes adventure, gritty characters, science fiction environment, and superficial relationships. The familiar alien invasion, good versus evil theme, includes environment devastation along with human genocide. There is a slim chance that the
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human race will survive or overcome the Psychos invaders, but Jonnie, the hero of the story, sets out to accomplish that goal. At times, the action requires the reader to suspend logical and statistical probabilities. In addition, there is just enough character development to keep the plot moving. It is one of those books, a person has to pick up and decide whether it is worth the time commitment to be able to judge whether it is worth reading. Show Less
LibraryThing member 06nwingert
I enjoy long books, and Battlefield Earth happens to be the world's longest book. Hubbard's writing and storytelling is great, but Hollywood messed it up (not to mention Hubbard is the creator of scientology, which adds another layer of craziness to this tome).
LibraryThing member KimCatalano
This is an epic Science Fiction book and a must read. 1,000 pages of pure action. The main character is factually up against all odds to save the last of the human race and he has many aliens and other species he's got to contend with. The ending is incredible and you just need to make sure you
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LibraryThing member juliebooks
One of my all-time favorites. I have read it several times. Even for people who do not usually read Sience Fiction, I will recommend this one.
LibraryThing member bookwyrmm
Hubbard is a highly detailed and imaginative writer, but each section would have worked better as a novella in a series rather than all together in a 1K page tome.
LibraryThing member MarcUK
A very entertaining read...
LibraryThing member PallanDavid
The basic story is good but it is sooooo wordy! Especially the last 100-150 pages. This could do good with a Reader's Digest condensation.
LibraryThing member gypsysmom
L. Ron Hubbard may be better known now as the father of Scientology but he wrote some great classic science fiction. This opus tells the story of the battle for earth in the year 3000.
Subjects
Awards
Audie Award (Finalist — 2017)
Independent Press Award (Audiobook — 2017)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1982
Physical description
1050 p.; 4 x 2 inches
ISBN
0884046818 / 9780884046813