Robert A. Heinlein
"I read Battlefield Earth straight through in one sitting."
Frederik Pohl
What the critics say about Battlefield Earth...
In the reviews below, you will find out why this monumental story won the critics over. (Click on the publication name to read the full review).
"It is Rocky, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Flash Gordon and Battlestar Galactica all rolled into one – and then some."
"...Battlefield Earth is vintage hard science fiction, done by a master storyteller."
Buffalo Evening News, NY
"...back in the 1930s and '40s, Hubbard was a leader among the crew of fast, versatile wordsmiths who produced the reams of copy needed to fill the pages of the pulps. In SF, he gained a reputation as a superlative storyteller with total mastery of plot and pacing."
Publishers Weekly
"L. Ron Hubbard decided to celebrate his golden anniversary as a science fiction writer with a novel hearkening back to the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He succeeded."
"Battlefield Earth is a magnificent, sprawling, 820-page, Star Wars – type novel, lavishly written with wit and adventure and the occasional unexpected curlicue in plot."
"...Battlefield Earth features a dauntless, bronze-skinned, golden-haired hero and a courageous golden-haired woman who adores him. They're breathtakingly beautiful."
"This also is a novel featuring the most deliciously despicable villain of all times, the insidious Terl, member of a master race, genius, eccentric and certifiable psychotic."
"Think of the Star Wars sagas, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, mix in the triumph of Rocky I, Rocky II and Rocky III and you have captured the exuberance, style and glory of Battlefield Earth."
"But more important, the novel is as fun to read as those movies were fun to watch."
Baltimore Evening Sun
"If you like this kind of fast unrelenting Raiders of the Lost Ark action, then this is the book for you. It's a real page turner."
"In an introduction, Hubbard states in no uncertain terms that he is writing Science Fiction, and that there's plenty of speculative science here. In fact, there is enough in this one book to have provided less imaginative writers with the material for an entire writing career."
"As pure adventure, it's top line stuff."
Rocky Mountain News
"Battlefield Earth is in every way a major novel, a true publishing event, a fine example of responsible book publishing."
"...Battlefield Earth is not ordinary: It's grand, exciting, suspenseful – and it's some 800 pages long. It will make a rewarding companion for long winter days indoors, and is a novel to keep and savor in other years."
"It's an epic novel one that will be celebrated by SF fans but it also should receive wide attention from all kinds of readers, because it is simply a corking good adventure-love-war story that sweeps the reader along in its classic themes and roaring pace."
"Every library worth the name will have to have one or more copies of this great epic tale."
"L. Ron Hubbard stopped writing fiction about 30 years ago. His return to writing is a grand, multi-colored fireworks display of talent that sparkles in style, plot and action. Battlefield Earth is the culminating of a writing lifetime, its author's masterpiece and is superb entertainment."
Sun News, Fla.
"The pace starts fast and never lets up. This is a shoot-'em-up adventure of the kind that has the hero fight an air battle in the morning, whip a gang of aliens in hand-to-paw combat in the afternoon, crack an unbreakable code in the evening and find time at odd moments to settle a couple of tribal disputes and run a lab experiment or two."
