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Battlefield Earth - L. Ron Hubbard
Battlefield Earth
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THE FINAL RECKONING 1977. NASA launches the space probe Voyager 1. One of its missions: answer the question —is there intelligent life beyond our planet?Fast-forward a thousand years. Question answered . . . by the Psychlos, an alien race who’ve proven just how terrifying intelligent life can be.... show more
THE FINAL RECKONING 1977. NASA launches the space probe Voyager 1. One of its missions: answer the question —is there intelligent life beyond our planet?Fast-forward a thousand years. Question answered . . . by the Psychlos, an alien race who’ve proven just how terrifying intelligent life can be. Tracing Voyager 1 back to its origins, the Psychlos have scorched the Earth,
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Publisher: Galaxy Press
Pages no: 1094
Edition language: English
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Got My Book rated it
4.0 Finally Available in Unabridged (Full Cast) Edition: Battlefield Earth | Review
A sprawling SF saga that probably should have been a trilogy As big as Star Wars. As desperate as Hunger Games. On August 20, 1977, we sent a message into space. Only recently did Voyager 1 go beyond the outer reaches of our solar system and into interstellar space. On it was a map of Earth, ...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
3.0
yeah - so long as nobody else knows you are reading it, it can stretch to a 3 star...... I did mention the stretch!ETA - Because Susanna said that the film was as bad as the book, that's what I did this evening - watched the film. Yep - what b movie fun that was.
Affairs of M/Men
Affairs of M/Men rated it
3.0
Even though I think Hubbard is a jerk and the sexism in this book is painful, there's something to be said for a book this long, written on a dare, that keeps you riveted to the page until the end. There's even clever technology in this masterwork of space opera.
spocksbro
spocksbro rated it
A guilty pleasure but definitely a pleasure.This is pulpy space opera at its best, and if there's any Dianetic/Scientology propaganda in it, it went right over my head because I didn't recognize it.
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