A review by besw
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard

1.0

Supposedly the longest work of "pure" science fiction ever written, it contains interesting ideas and is a case study in how NOT to write your novel (from beginning to end without any idea where it's going and no retconning afterwards). If you're willing to lay aside the character drift and gaping plotholes, this is a good book with lots of action and intrigue. There's struggles for survival, air-to-ground combat, planet-eating "bombs," intergalactic industrial espionage, and space lawyers (who look like sharks).