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Written in the style of the pulp fiction era (during which Hubbard began his writing career), the novel is a massive work (over 750 pages in hardcover, 1000+ in paperback) telling a fictional story set approximately 1,000 years in our future. Before the story begins, the reader learns, an evil alien race called the "Psychlos" invaded Earth near the end of the 20th century, destroying human civilization in a matter of days and reducing humankind to little more than cave dwellers. A thousand years later, a series of events is put into action that finally gives humanity a chance to rebel against their alien overlords and free Earth from the control of a massive galactic empire.
Reaction to the book from literary critics and science fiction fans has been decidedly mixed since its publication. While generally acknowledged to be one of Hubbard's better books, reviews and comments on it have ranged from being thrilling and action-packed to plodding, overlong, and even unreadable. In particular, accusations have been made that the book includes themes of Scientology.
As with many of Hubbard's books, the organization of Scientology engaged in a massive public relations campaign to buy enormous quantities of the book, in order to place it onto best-seller lists and foster the illusion of Hubbard as a best-selling author. Various bookstore chains (including Waldenbooks ) have cited examples of Scientologists repeatedly coming into stores and buying armfuls of the book at a time. Several bookstores reported that shipments of the book arrived with the store's own price tags already affixed to them, even before they were unpacked from the shipping boxes.
After his success in the movie Pulp Fiction, Hollywood star John Travolta pushed hard to make a movie adaptation of Battlefield Earth a reality. Travolta, a devoted Scientologist and one of the organization's most vocal supporters, described the book in interviews as "like Star Wars, only better." The movie Battlefield Earth based on the novel came out in 2000 and was produced and distributed by Time WarnerTime Warner Inc. is the world's largest media company with major Internet, publishing, film, telecommunications and television divisions. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York, United States. History Time Warner was created through the m. It was directed by Roger Christian and starred John Travolta, Barry Pepper , Forest WhitakerForest Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor. Forest has played in over 47 movies, produced over 8 films, and directed 5 movies. On screen since 1979, he has played a heavy, a soft character, and a variety of roles in between. External link W, Kim CoatesKim Coates (born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian actor who has worked in both Canadian and American movies and television series. He has also worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role, Richard Tyson , Sabine Karsenti , Michael Byrne , and Kelly PrestonKelly Preston (born October 13, 1962), is an American actress. She was born in Hawai'i. Preston had a modeling career when she was a teenager. She was discovered at the age of 16 by a photographer. In 1991, Preston married John Travolta, to whom she remai.
In this futuristic epic, a greedy security chief, played by John Travolta, enslaves prisoners to mine gold for him. Barry Pepper plays the human (or "man-animal") who decides to liberate his people by fighting the security chief.
The film received many bad reviews, including from the New York Times and Roger EbertRoger Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Chicago Sun-Times film critic and the first author to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism ( 1975 award "for his film criticism during 1974"). Through his newspaper reviews, books, television shows, lectures, and p. It was also voted on the Internet Movie Database as one of the 100 worst films [1] The ultimate insult came in 2001, when the movie received seven Razzie Awards, including Worst Movie of the Year and Worst Actor (Travolta), effectively classifying the movie as the worst film made in Hollywood since Showgirls.