Iowa Bookshelf
Helen W. Daly


An enormous book that will delight sci-fi fans

The future survival of what is left of the human race is at stake when Jonnie Goodboy Tyler ventures out of his dwindling community of humans in the Rocky Mountains. He has no idea of the role he will play in this survival for he is simply a young man with a healthy curiosity. He is not even aware that Earth has been a prisoner to the oppressive alien race of the Psychlos for 1000 years.

The Psychlos and their vast intergalactic mining corporation have dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries, destroying the races that try to resist. The only reason there are still some humans left on Earth is that uranium radiation is toxic to the Psychlos, and uranium deposits around the world have projected pockets of people in the Rockies, Scotland, Russia, South Africa and China.

How one man tackles the most malignant power in the universe and brings the widely scattered humans into an epic battle with this force makes for a sprawling adventure story spread across a vast canvas of interplanetary wars, intergalactic financial intrigue, monster races and space travel. A saga of the year 3000, Battlefield Earth, is an enormous book that will delight sci-fi fans and intrigue the more literal reader.



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