Battlefield Earth Special Edition: A Saga of the Year 3000

L. Ron Hubbard

Jul 2016 · Galaxy Press · Narrated by Josh Clark, Stefan Rudnicki, Charles Davis, Fred Tatasciore, Jim Meskimen, Larrs Jackson, Nancy Cartwright, and Scott Menville

About this audiobook

If you liked Dune, Atlantis Gene and Star Wars—you will love the audiobook Battlefield Earth!

In the year A.D. 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland, plundered of its natural resources by alien conquerors known as Psychlos. Fewer than thirty-five thousand humans survive in a handful of communities scattered across the face of a post-apocalyptic Earth.

From the ashes of humanity rises a young hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Setting off on an initial quest to discover a hidden evil, Jonnie unlocks the mystery of humanity’s demise and unearths a crucial weakness in their oppressors. Spreading the seeds of revolt, Jonnie and a small band of survivors pit their quest for freedom in an all-out rebellion that erupts across the continents of Earth and the cosmic sprawl of the Psychlo empire.

For the fate of the Galaxy lies on the Battlefield of Earth.

Superlative quality—a new standard for all audiobooks.

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:

• 471⁄2 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.

Written with a phenomenal burst of creative energy in a sustained eight-month period in 1980, and first published in October 1982, Battlefield Earth became a breakaway New York Times and international best seller, hailed as one of the classic science fiction novels.

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

Ratings and reviews

I love the book but i can't get the whole damn thing to download. I paid $41.95 last March and only get Ch 9 - 32. I've asked for help and haven't even got a response from Google. LAST DAMN TIME I EVER BUY ANYTHING THROUGH THIS APP.

I loved this story so much and over the years have read it three times!! So well done and exciting with great insight into people and life and survival against great odds. Very creative and intelligent.

I read this book and I loved it, the book just seemed to be great Science Fiction. Now this book is a huge book divided in to two parts. The first part is what John Travolta tried to bring to films, the problems with the film adaptions was, the Psychlos, put Travolta on stilts is not what I expected from reading the book, many parts of the first part of the book were dropped. What was dropped would of given people context. What is with Psychlos and gold you never know from the the movie. The movie did not end as the first half of the book ended and if the movie was do well it would of been hard to introduce the story and character of the second part of the book. The better half of the story in my opinion

About the author

L. Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska on March 13, 1911. He attended George Washington University and Princeton University. He began his career as a writer for pulp magazines and later as a science fiction writer. His science fiction works include the Buckskin Brigades, Final Blackout, Fear, The Kingslayer, and Black Towers to Danger. His book, Dianetics, was published in 1950. He spent the next 30 years devoting himself to the development of Dianetics and Scientology. In 1954, he founded the Church of Scientology. In the 1980s, he published his final fiction works Battlefield Earth and the Mission Earth series, which won the Cosmos 2000 Award from French readers and the Nova Science Fiction Award from Italy's Perseo Libri. He died on January 24, 1986.