Battlefield Earth

Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi and New York Times Bestseller

By: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrated by: Josh Clark, Scott Menville, Fred Tatascorie, Stefan Rudnicki, full cast

Audie Award Winner • Earphones Award Winner • Best of 2016 Science Fiction Audiobook

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.

Experience the unabridged audiobook in fully immersive HD sound of the story that changed the shape of science fiction forever. Performed by over 65 actors playing 198 characters with 150,000 sound effects.

“The sheer scope of this production of the epic sci-fi adventure Battlefield Earth is breathtaking.” (Stefan Rudnicki)

“This futuristic tale, featuring aliens and humans fighting for survival, comes across as compelling and believable.” (Booklist)

“It's like a full-blown feature film inside your head.” (Audiobook Heaven)

“A vivid movie of the mind!” (Audio File Magazine)

Unlike any other audiobook ever produced. A fully immersive experience, this unabridged audiobook features more than 65 actors including Grammy Award-winning audiobook producer and narrator Stefan Rudnicki.

This state-of-the-art audio engineering has created a wholly cinematic soundtrack with:

• 46 hours of pulse-pounding drama and action professionally recorded with high-definition sound.
• A gorgeous cinematic soundtrack with full orchestral compositions and more than 150,000 sound effects.
• A cast of more than 65 actors - many of whom are celebrity voices from TV, films, and games - performing 198 characters.

Awards and Accolades: Top 100 science fiction books

• Top three of the best 100 English language novels of the 20th century by the Random House Modern Library Readers Poll
• US Golden Scroll and Saturn Awards
• Tetradramma d'Oro Award
• Gutenberg Award

Listen to the novel that changed the shape of science fiction.

Additional performers include: Roy Abramsohn, Corey Burton, Nancy Cartwright, Bob Caso, R. F. Daley, Charles Davis, Neil Dickson, Ellen Dubin, Jim Meskimen, Tamra Meskimen, Michael Gough, Kaleo Griffith, Christina Huntington, Larrs Jackson, Don Leslie, Ralph Lister, Mark Mintz, Phil Nee, Joe Ochman, Mr. Phil Proctor, Enn Reitel, Patrick Renna, Alan Shearman, Thomas Silcott, Tadao Tomomatsu, Bob Walter, Matt Wolf, Robert Wu, Michael Yurchak, Gregory Lee Kenyon, Darren Richardson, Jason Wilburn, Rick Zieff, and Roger Steffens.

©2016 Galaxy Audio (P)2016 Galaxy Audio

Critic reviews

"A vivid movie of the mind." (AudioFile)

“The sheer scope of this production of the epic sci-fi adventure Battlefield Earth is breathtaking.” (Stefan Rudnicki)

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

Thrillling experience!

What did you love best about Battlefield Earth?

The characters are so real, I just couldn't stop listening!

What did you like best about this story?

The scenario is possible and gave me cold chills. I really liked the ingenuity of the plot.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

The narrator and actors are very skilled. It seemed like I was right there among them and the sound effects are excellent.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I was fearful in some parts, intrigued in others and was impressed by the courage of the Scots.

Any additional comments?

Buy this Audible version, even if you have the book. It really brings the story to life.

Amazing Production Values; Inspiring Saga!

What did you love best about Battlefield Earth?

Besides the high production values and the intense mood-inducing intro music throughout the production, the cast & crew were professional and emotional in presenting their characters. As in any story I would expect throwaway characters, however in BE all the characters played some important role in the building of the story.

What did you like best about this story?

Hubbard builds a universe (actually 16 of them) in this galactic neighborhood. When we start, we find Psychlo has an out-of-the-way mining colony of Intergalactic Mining Co., a bunch of slovenly employees who wonder why their pay is being cut, and not a lot of thought is given to the “man animals” on the planet.

We find the adventures of one security chief with delusions of grandeur and riches, Terl, and his counterpart, a “man animal” (Johnny Goodboy Tyler) who was always considered strange and asked too many questions in his village, and Johnny becomes part of Terl’s plan to take an unknown-to-the-company gold deposit near Denver and convert it to ingots and then blast the animals when the job is done.

Terl returns to Psychlo a rich alien, with females and kerbango (a cross between beer and pretzels, I suspect) to last the rest of his life!

So Terl trains the animals – men – from Johnny and from Scotland – using a learning device that quickly educates in the ways of mining, language and Psychlo technology to extract the gold.

The fun begins when Terl gets leverage over his boss, and over the company, little knowing that Johnny has plans of his own.

The story further expands from this beyond the bad Psychlos getting theirs, where Earth becomes a target for other alien races!

What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The Narrator brings emotion and pathos to the story rather than just reading it rotely.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It got me excited especially during the battle scenes with the other alien forces such as the Tolneps, or the small gray men as they were about to foreclose on Earth!

Any additional comments?

I’ve read the book a few times but forgot so many details that the audio book provided with a panache and extremely professional production I was not expecting nor imagining.

An amazing romp through the galaxy, finding data on Economics, Politics, the failings of governments operating on out-moded laws of subjugating populations and begin to find purpose and worth in a sea of uncertainty and the imagined power brokers of uncaring banks and military leaders.

No, it’s not just a pulp tale of Tyler’s conquering the Psychlos. It’s a tale of high tension and energy in handling the world or worlds around us.

Now if we could only bring Voyager home before it’s too late. But that’s for another story.

Highly recommended!

PS: For those lucky readers who have read the book and listened to the audio books in the past, be it known that the earlier editions were abridged as was the audio book (recorded by the wonderful voice of Roddy McDowell).

Now you get the FULL story as it was originally intended!

Nice, eh?

Awesome

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Well worth my time to listen. Look forward to additional titles like this.

EPIC Redemption for Battlefield Earth

The original book got mixed reviews and the movie just plain sucked, but this audio book of Battlefield Earth knocks it out of the park! While never destined to be a literary masterpiece, Galaxy Audio has elevated L Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction classic into a highly entertaining space opera. Who cares if there are serious plot holes and rapant campiness. It's simply 47 hours of pure audio enjoyment; all for just one credit. Probably one of the best overall deals on Audible. So, if you're a science fiction fan who is able to lighten up, then this audiobook absolutely needs to be in your library. Enjoy!

Finally, It's Available

Hooray! On July 18, 2016 I have FINALLY succeeded. After years of fruitless searching, I have finally located and downloaded the full length, unabridged mp3 audiobook (47 hrs 32 mins) of Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. This, in my opinion, is the best pure science fiction (space opera, good guys prevailing over bad) novel EVER written. Forget Scientology and, for goodness sakes, forget that John Travolta travesty of a movie by the same name! Hubbard was at his finest with this book and it makes a great summer read.

Good story. Terrible music.

Good story. Terrible music. Would be 5 stars without the overlong music and jarring music.

loved the book! audio was great!

read the book years ago, audio production was awesome. . a whole new Terl!

the best audio book I've ever read!! hands down...

This was the first book in ever read cover to cover when I was eighteen. Ever since I have longed for a movie but realizing it would never be as good as the book and that they (hollywood)would just destroy what I cherished (proof in point John Travolta with the best of intentions I'm sure)This was a Brilliant movie in my mind and I could not have asked for anything more. absolutely perfect-• thank you

Best scifi there is

Best Sci fi I've ever listened too. I didn't want it to end. Please do yourself a service and listen to this story!!

Simply the best Audiobook on Audible

From story, detail, depth and production value there is no book on audible that can compare. I've re-listened half a dozen times already.