Battlefield Earth (novel)
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 1982 science fiction novel written by the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz.
The subsequent film adaptation, released in 2000, was a commercial failure and was criticized as one of the "worst films ever made".
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