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All right. Something’s going to break. This site is geared toward a thoughtful reader, a book club, somebody more forward-thinking, maybe. Can a person enjoy pulp fiction, call it clean-ish, and still respect themselves? I argue yes!
Battlefield Earth has been called classic. It has also been called extraordinarily bad. If you pick up a book because you want to hate somebody (that’s the villain), love somebody (that’s the hero), and be kept busy for a long time, you have come to the right place. In it, a small band of humans lives in Colorado while a larger band of huge alien invaders takes resources from our planet. The hero of the story is called, satisfyingly, Johnny Goodboy Tyler. Although he endures captivity, hunger, thirst and fatigue, he figures out a lot more than a human is usually capable of. There is a good reason for it. In fiction, a hero can have augmented abilities because of alien technology. Duh.
If you go to this piece of science fiction trying to please your literary club, you should go elsewhere. If you go to have a great time and not read sex scenes, this is it. It doesn’t have cuss words, either. It does, though, have a ton of violence, which speaks to the simpler time in which it was written.
Battlefield Earth is long science fiction. It’s written by somebody who was in on the start of the science fiction field, began a lot of projects and saw them through to completion. The author never played by the rules, but when did anybody make it in publishing by using the rulebook?
Rated: High, just for violence. As I said, there’s lots of it. If there is a type of violence that’s acceptable, we have a pretty good example, here. Everybody secretly wants the bad guy to get what’s coming to him, don’t we? It contains fistfights, shootings and explosions.
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