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Battlefield Earth
- Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi and New York Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Josh Clark, Scott Menville, Fred Tatascorie, Stefan Rudnicki, full cast
- Length: 45 hrs and 53 mins
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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.
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)
What listeners say about Battlefield Earth
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- Graham Pepper-Evans
- 28-05-19
WOW
Enjoyed the whole story, narration was wonderful, took me along on a wonderful journey, voice actors took me to new heights of enjoyment. I have read sifi all my life Hubbard is one of the best. I just wished the movie was of the same standard
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- Mr P R Wood
- 07-07-16
Great. A must for any sci-fi fan
Book is brilliant shame about the film.
I have read the book 3 times and this audible version is excellent.
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- Bill
- 25-02-19
Excellent, so much better than the film!
I watched the film with John Travolta & Forest Whitaker playing the parts of Terl & Ker. The film was a far shorter, and although I enjoyed the film, the book goes into great detail and depth, giving the story a much more conclusive ending.
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- Roland B-C
- 31-12-18
Amazing story from the master of science fiction
Amazing story from the master of science fiction. I loved every chapter and it kept me interested throughout.
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- Revdave39
- 26-09-17
A Fantastic Journey .... But so American!
As a writer R.L Hubbard deserves considerably acknowledgement, and polishes his crown with this masterpiece.
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- m b
- 07-08-23
huge sci-fi dramatisation
I really enjoyed the ups and downs of this book ,lots of twists and turns . plenty of action and back story. can sometimes get a little lost with the amount of alien races envolved towards the end but I really enjoyed it .
yes the chapter ending audio can get a little annoying but not a big no no ,for a 40+hrs book I was left wanting a little more at the end which I wasn't expecting
worth the credit !!!
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- The Rendles
- 09-02-19
okay, but irritating.
This book goes on and on.
I quite like the story, but my biggest bugbear is the narrator.
It sounds like every time he labels something, he is doing the verbal equivalent of "air quotes.''
It gets quite annoying after a while.
The Scottish accents are a travesty,
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- Laszlo Vartus
- 28-05-20
Fantastic audio cover
I really liked the sound effects and narrations.
The story sometimes funnily Hollywoody, but kept me interested all along. All in all, much better than expected.
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- Nic Bartie
- 04-09-18
Next level audio, long but worth every minute.
I read this book over ten years ago and listening to it now was 10 times better. Can’t recommend it enough for true science fiction human storytelling. I hope to find another book with a production like this.
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- Brian King
- 12-09-17
Great production!
Narrator and cast did a great job of bringing the story to life. well done
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