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Battlefield Earth by
L. Ron Hubbard
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Bolbod
Chatovarian
Hawvin
Tolnep
blastrifle
breathe-gas
goo-food
hockner
kerbango
laminated molecular plating
laminated molecular plating
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Monsters were unwanted things. All life was overpowered by a fear of monsters.
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space could exist entirely independent of time, energy or mass and that all these things were actually separate items. Only when combined did they make up a universe.
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her eyes like ashes in a dead fire. “Goodbye,” she whispered.
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Surely it must be an insect. Only cockroaches looked like that. Or beetles. No, cockroaches. But there were no cockroaches that big. Not thirty feet long and ten feet high and maybe twelve feet side to side. A horrible brown color. And smooth.
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Eight or nine feet tall, maybe more. About three and a half feet wide. Two arms. Two legs. A shiny substance for a face and a long tube from the chin down to the chest. Glowing amber eyes behind the shiny front plate. The ground shook as it approached. A thousand pounds? Maybe more. Huge booted feet dented the earth. And it had furry paws and long talons.
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These Psychlos didn’t wear masks inside, and for the first time he was seeing their faces. They were almost human faces except they had bones for eyebrows and eyelids and lips. They had amber orb eyes like those of wolves.
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It looked like a derelict! Here was a mark where an atomic bomb had hit it, there was a scar where possibly a plane had crashed into it leaving the charred remnants of oil and fuel. There a row of minute dents where surface-to-air or air-to-air missiles had struck it. But such marks were notable only for their stains, not for any damage they had done.
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The spacecraft Aknar II rode in orbit four hundred twenty-one miles above the planet Earth. The small gray man sat in a small gray office in the ship. He was looking at small gray instruments.
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One was a big craft with a diamond-shaped bridge and a lot of blastgun snouts. One was a cylinder with a control deck in the front, flat end. One was a thing which looked like a five-pointed star with a sort of gun on each star point. And the fourth was a sphere with a ring around it. “Hey,” said Jonnie, “that answers the description, the last
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The Chatovarians. They stood about five feet tall, had somewhat flat heads and big buck teeth. They were a bright orange tan. Their hands were a trifle webbed but very nimble. And they were strong. They ate wood. Going to a Chatovarian dinner was like walking into a lumberyard.
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Genres Featured In Battlefield Earth
Science Fiction
(Dominant)
Action
(Major)
Adventure
(Prominent)
Dystopian
(Major)
Fantasy
(Notable)
Themes Featured In Battlefield Earth
Survival
(Major)
Oppression and Freedom
(Significant)
Humanity vs. Alien Beings
(Moderate)
Courage and Heroism
(Significant)
Technology and Control
(Noticable)
Rebellion
(Moderate)
Hope and Despair
(Minor)
Morality and Ethics
(Minor)
Tones In Battlefield Earth
Adventurous
(Strong)
Dystopian
(Very Strong)
Heroic
(Moderate)
Desperate
(Strong)
Cynical
(Noticable)
Determined
(Moderate)
Sombre
(Mild)
Hopeful
(Noticable)
Tense
(Strong)
Triumphant
(Moderate)
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