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

Length: 45 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

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:

• 47½ 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)

Quite an experience!

This was put together quite well. Many voices with a soundtrack! Sucks you right in. I'm well into it and really enjoying it.

best audio book ever!

This story already encapsulates so much excitement and mystery. Add the voices, sound effects and music and it begins to feel real. I hit play and my mind gets lost to the many possibilities of the vastness of space! will most likely listen to all 47 hours again!

a good performance

But the music at the end of each chapter gets to be annoying. The storytelling was enjoyable.

Absolutely Epic!

Best audiobook I've ever listened to! Going to make other audiobooks pale in comparison, a must read!

The best audio book ever.

I love to read. I listen to books while on road trips, while hiking, or just doing chores around the house. This performance of Battlefield Earth was amazing. I've read the book at least three times but listening to it brought so many new pictures and sounds into my mind. I highly recommend it to Battlefield Earth fans and anyone that might think they'd be interested. Absolutely Amazing.

Amazing book

This book gets better every time I read it. This time I purchased the audio version and I couldn't stop listening. I'm on my 2nd time through and I'm getting more out of it than I got the first time. The performance is mind blowing. So many different voices, such beautiful music and sound effects that make you feel like you are there. Not to mention that the story itself is exciting all the way through the end. Not a boring moment and a perfect end!

Good insight into the mind of LRH

I listened to this story several years after reading the book originally and it was very entertaining. I wish all audiobooks were this engaging.

Judging the book alone, it has a good start, a poor middle and a poor end.

If you are interested in L. R. Hubbard or the origin of his Cult’s practices, this story provides some very clear insights to how that organization operates. The main characters appear to be a rather transparent reflection of Hubbard’s behavior during his twilight years; primarily his overtly paranoid and manipulative behavior.

Overall, this was a rather drawn out and long winded novel. The only thing that kept me captivated was the extraordinary life of that of the author. And in that case, I simply finished the book to see where he endsd it. The ending was non existant, though.

great read!

I started this book a couple of weeks ago as a physical copy and loved it. I finished it just the other day after thinking I never would but after slowly chewing it down I proudly finished. finding it as an audio book made me so excited and the performance by the voice actors are top quality.

its a definate must have for any sci-fi fan!

Simply the best book & audiobook

I am an avid reader (listener) of science fiction and aspiring science-fiction writer. Battlefield Earth leaves nothing to be desired. Production quality of the audiobook is nothing short of fantastic. Having listened to numerous audiobooks on audible and other places, I find the production of Battlefield Earth mind-blowing!

Furthermore, the story take on a life of its own. There elements of every possible type of genre conceivable. There are times when the story takes on a mystery vibe, Then a few minutes later it's turned into a detective type story, or Romance.

This is pure science fiction, but the characters seem so very real.

I found myself wanting more time to listen to it on a daily basis.

One of my favourite books, even better.

This is an epic cast who has done a fantastic job of bringing this book to life. Very entertaining, difficult to put down.