Battlefield Earth - by L Ron Hubbard (Paperback)

About the Book

An epic adventure set in the year 3000 when the future of the human race is at stake.

Book Synopsis

Sadistic Aliens loom...

Noble humans rise...

Is it the end or a new beginning?

Battlefield Earth is an enormous epic of adventure set in the year 3000, when the future survival of what's left of the human race is at stake. When Jonnie Goodboy Tyler decides to venture out of the small and dwindling community of humans barely surviving in their Rocky Mountain retreat, he has no thought of challenging the order that for a thousand years has held the earth prisoner to the oppressive alien race of the Psychlos.

The Psychlos and their vast intergalactic mining corporation have dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries, ruthlessly destroying races who dare to resist. How one man - with the aid of a few surviving Scotsmen--tackles the greatest malignant power in the universe makes for a sprawling adventure of thrilling heroics, full of dangerous underground work, interplanetary wars, intergalactic financial intrigue, monster races, and complex political manipulation spread across a vast canvas of epic scale.

Review Quotes

"Battlefield Earth is one of my favorite works of science fiction ever.I've probably read it eight times or so. It's always in my top five. As a writer myself, I think about the pacing and the plotting of that book and just marvel that he pulled it off. It's really brilliant." --Hugh Howey (author of the Silo Series, an Apple+ TV show)

"Pulse-pounding mile-a-minute sci-fi action adventure that does not stop. It is a masterpiece of popular adventure science fiction." --Brandon Sanderson (author of the Mistborn series)

About the Author

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 230 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.