Take Indiana Jones and match him against an evil version of the wookie Chewbaka from Star Wars and you have the protagonist and antagonist of Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard.

Billed as a saga of the year 3000, the book became a fixture on the New York Times bestseller list for 32 weeks in 1983.

This book is great for non-sci-fi fans. It's fun, easy to get into.