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Originally Posted by Werthead  Probably the single worst SF novel ever published. Atrocious on every level, from the unreadably bad sub-junior prose to cardboard cut-out characters to the utterly non-existent science (check the bit with the nuclear explosions that don't damage objects sitting right next to them) to the lack of logical cohesion (the caveman-tech-level humans who work out how to fly jet fighters). Battlefield Earth is rightly regarded as something of a bad joke in the SF critical community. It's only saving grace is that it is not as horrific as Hubbard's Mission Earth series, which steps over the 'bad' line into the 'outrageously mysoginistic, sexist, intolerant, homophobic, racist and elitist' area. |
The funniest thing about the ten part series is that it kept being published mysteriously after his death. It made a lot of people wonder whether he was ever writing it anyway, or whether some of his lackies were.