Battlefield Earth: The book vs the movie

[CarlKillerMiller]

I will murder you.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
seriously i refuse to support that quack with any of my money, besides ther are tons of awesome SF authors out there that poop more interesting things then hubbard writes.

Meh, I just borrowed it.

I'm not a big fiction person, and I seriously doubt that I will come close to being well read in the fiction universe, especially science fiction, which I generally don't like (at least in movie/TV/short story form).

 

[NeoV]

loved the book

could not have been more unhappy with the movie - it was terrible

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Ameesh
seriously i refuse to support that quack with any of my money, besides ther are tons of awesome SF authors out there that poop more interesting things then hubbard writes.

Meh, I just borrowed it.

I'm not a big fiction person, and I seriously doubt that I will come close to being well read in the fiction universe, especially science fiction, which I generally don't like (at least in movie/TV/short story form).

read Dune by Frank Herbert, it will change your mind about the genre.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Chraticn
I will murder you.

hahaha nice :beer:

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
read Dune by Frank Herbert, it will change your mind about the genre.

Yeah, I've heard good things about it.

I'll see if I can't borrow a copy from someone.

I'm slowly coming around to the fiction side. I just have to recover from the poisionous "literature" they fed me in school.

 

[Turkish]

 

[CanOWorms]

I liked it, too. When I read it I didn't know anything about Scientology. Is it supposed to be related to Scientology or is it simply just written by its creator?

I liked how the book was epic in nature. It felt like it was 3 (or so) books in one since there were these distinct stages in the plot.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
I liked it, too. When I read it I didn't know anything about Scientology. Is it supposed to be related to Scientology or is it simply just written by its creator?

I liked how the book was epic in nature. It felt like it was 3 (or so) books in one since there were these distinct stages in the plot.

I don't know. I know zero about scientology. It would piss me off if it's just a scientology text, but I don't think it is.

 

[C'DaleRider]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
I liked it, too. When I read it I didn't know anything about Scientology. Is it supposed to be related to Scientology or is it simply just written by its creator?

I liked how the book was epic in nature. It felt like it was 3 (or so) books in one since there were these distinct stages in the plot.

You do know that Battlefield Earth was Hubbard's 1980's swan song, along with his ten volume episodic work MissionEarth, celebrating his earlier years as a writer in pulp fiction, right? His main outlet during his early years of writing was Astounding Science Fiction, a monthly pulp SciFi magazine.

During the 1930's, Hubbard wrote under many pseudonames, including Rene Lafayette, Tom Esterbrook, Kurt von Rachen, Captain B.A. Northrup, and Winchester Remington Colt, and wrote in many genres mostly scifi and fantasy, but dabbled in westerns and a bit of detective stories. He published in ASF, as mentioned above, and Thrilling Adventures, The Phantom Detective and Smashing Novels Magazine.

Hubbard actually earned a place in the golden age Hall of Fame in SciFi for his writing in the 1930's.

Battlefield Earth is nothign about Scientology, just a return to his roots from which he came. Scientology came from Hubbard in the 1950's, well after he'd established himself as a fairly comeptent SciFi writer.

If yu like to explore SciFi, Dune was mentioned as a good start, which the series is, but also explore RingWorld, the Foundation series, and seek out authors like Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, David Eddings, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and many, many others.