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''Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000'' is a 1982 science fiction novel written by the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He also 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".〔 "... Battlefield Earth has opened to spectacularly bad notices, many of which have suggested that the film is the worst of the year, the decade, the millennium or whatever exotic time-frame the alien Psychlos recognise ..."〕 ==Synopsis== In the year AD 3000, Earth has been ruled by an alien race, the Psychlos, for a millennium. The Psychlos were inadvertently led to Earth by one of NASA's deep space satellites. After one thousand years, humanity has been reduced to a few tribes in isolated parts of the world while the Psychlos strip the planet of its mineral wealth. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, a young warrior of one such tribe, lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Depressed by the death and disease affecting his tribe, due to irradiation by decaying unused nuclear land mines (see Medium Atomic Demolition Munition), he leaves his village to explore the lowlands and to disprove the superstitions long held by his people. He is captured in the ruins of Denver by Terl, the Psychlo chief of security. The Psychlos, hairy tall, 1,000-pound sociopaths, originate from a planet with an atmosphere very different from that of Earth, with a slightly different table of elements. Their "breathe-gas" explodes on contact with even trace amounts of radioactive metals, such as uranium. The Psychlos have been the dominant species across multiple universes for 100,000 years. It becomes apparent in the later chapters that the Psychlos were originally nonviolent miners, but subjugated by a ruling class to become warlike. Terl has been assigned to Earth, and eventually learns that his term has been extended, with no word of relief. Fearful at the thought of spending several more years on Earth, he decides to make himself a millionaire to escape, by secretly mining a lode of gold in the Rocky Mountains. It is surrounded by uranium deposits that make Psychlo mining impossible, so Terl captures Jonnie to mine the gold for him. After a time, Terl captures Jonnie's childhood friend Chrissie and her sister, and holds them hostage to ensure Jonnie's continued cooperation. Thereafter, Jonnie is free to move around the mining area. Terl and Jonnie travel to Scotland and recruit 83 Scottish youth (including several deliberately selected body doubles for Jonnie), old women, a doctor, and a historian to help with the mining. Jonnie persuades the Scots to help him against the Psychlo rule on Earth. Terl does not understand English, and is instead convinced that the Scots are motivated by a promise of pay on project completion. While Jonnie and his Scottish allies mine the gold deposit, they also secretly explore the ruins of humanity to look for uranium that can be weaponized for use against their Psychlo oppressors. This subterfuge is aided by the aforementioned body doubles, making it appear to Terl's surveillance that the mining operation is the sole priority of the human contingent. Meanwhile, Terl is busy obfuscating the purpose of the gold mining operation and implementing the plan to ship the human mined gold back to the Psychlo home planet. Terl's plan involves modifying home world bound coffins to replace radiation resistant lead components with lead-plated-gold components. When he finally returned to Psychlo, the could then dig up said coffins and sell the parts to make his fortune. During the semiannual teleportation of personnel, goods, and coffins (all dead Psychlos are shipped home for burial) to the Psychlos' eponymous home planet, Jonnie and the Scots, with the help of the Psychlo midget Ker (Ker is under seven feet tall, but still retains a Psychlo's impressive strength), co-opt Terl's plan by packing several of the coffins with "dirty nukes" and "planet busters". After the last teleportation, the humans use the Psychlos' own weapons against them and gain control of Earth. Unsure of whether the bombs sent reached Psychlo and under threat of counterattack, Jonnie opposes a race of intergalactic bankers seeking to repossess the Earth for unpaid debts, as well as a longtime rival, Brown Limper Stafford, seeking to wrest control of Earth from Jonnie. To ensure the security and independence of humanity, he discovers the secret of Psychlo mathematics and teleportation: a difficult task compounded by the fact that Psychlo math is based on the number eleven (Psychlos have eleven fingers and toes), and the destruction of planet Psychlo. Jonnie's dirty nukes were meant only to destroy the capital city, but instead started a chain reaction which reached into the planet's core, exploding Psychlo and creating a sun, effectively killing Terl as well. In time, other Psychlo facilities scattered about the multiple universes were destroyed by their own reliance on teleportation as they performed their scheduled teleportation shipments and instead brought back radioactive solar matter. This holocaust killed all the children, all the fertile females and the primary source of vital breath-gas, thus bringing about the death of the Psychlos everywhere except Earth. It is discovered that all Psychlos have a DBS device implanted in their brains to make them less empathetic. Meant to make work pleasant for them, the DBS artifact promotes extreme sadism in the men. Removal of this device cures the handful of remaining Psychlos, to include Ker. With Jonnie's help, the teleportation machine is repaired, and they are able to bring back breath-gas from one of the Psychlo homeworld moons. Jonnie knows that, eventually, even the Earth-bound Psychlos will die off, and the species will become extinct. A few years later, Jonnie and Chrissie are married and have a son. The Earth has been saved from further invasion by other alien forces, when it is revealed that Terl, the highest-ranking remaining Psychlo in all of the universes after the destruction of the homeworld, signed official paperwork giving the entire Psychlo empire to Jonnie. To the Psychlo security chief, it was a final bit of cruelty to make Jonnie believe that he actually owned the empire. Terl had no way of knowing he was about to die at the end of his teleportation, and that his people had been effectively wiped off the multi-universe map. Jonnie, as sole owner of the remaining Psychlo empire, uses this to pay off all debts to the intergalactic bankers, as well as buy impenetrable force fields and automated orbiting defense platforms to protect the Earth from future threats. With the Earth secure, Brown Limper Stafford dead (he was killed by Terl before he teleported) and the human population growing and learning about its true history, Jonnie gives ownership of the Earth back to his people. Meanwhile, Jonnie, Chrissie and their son leave for an isolated part of the world to live out the rest of their lives in peace. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battlefield Earth (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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