Battlefield Earth

 

Battlefield Earth

by L. Ron Hubbard

4/5 stars 

Scifi

Synopsis - If you liked Dune, Atlantis Gene, Foundation, Ender's Game, and Starship Troopers, you'll love Battlefield Earth.

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, all but wiped out the human race and stripped the planet of natural resources. Now, in the year 3000, humankind faces total extinction. But in this post-apocalyptic world, as a new millennium arises, so too has the courageous Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. A natural-born leader, Jonnie manages to raise an army out of the remnants of humanity, knowing that against the seemingly invincible aliens, the uprising will require a daring strike on an epic scale. Is it the end of our world … or the dawn of a new one? Will the human race be an instrument of the planet’s destruction … or the seed of its rebirth? The answers lie at the heart of Battlefield Earth —the landmark New York Times bestselling saga of intrigue and suspense, love and war, power and vision. It’s your future. Don’t miss it.

 

A perennial international bestseller, Battlefield Earth has been voted among the top three of the best one hundred English language novels of the twentieth century by the Random House Modern Library Readers Poll, and has won worldwide critical acclaim, including the US Golden Scroll and Saturn Awards, Italy's prestigious Tetradramma d'Oro Award (for the story's inherent message of peace), and France's Gutenberg Award for the novel's exceptional contribution to the genre.


Review - This book was a lot different than I expected from the cover and size! This book with the epilogue is just shy of 1,000 pages. Which the added interview/exclusive content, it is over 1,000 pages. It is a chunk of a scifi/fantasy book, and Hubbard is one of the few authors that can pull that off. Did I feel fatigued reading this? Yes. Was I ever bored? No. The themes of rebellion, civilization, technology and some love were fascinating together. It’s a space opera so there’s a lot of drama and action! 

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