Battlefield Earth (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Terl in particular and the Psychlos in general, to the point that you may wonder how their society functions at all.

* [[City in A Bottle]]: Jonnie's miserable home village, holed up in an irradiated mountain valley that keeps them safe from alien attack while slowly killing them.

* [[Cool Horse]]: Windsplitter, Jonnie's faithful steed. He even gets a Psychlo kill or two!

* [[Covers Always Lie]]: A blurb from [[Robert A. Heinlein]] promises "A terrific story," while the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' assures us "The pace starts fast and never lets up" and the ''Kirkus Review'' insists we're in for "Tight plotting, furious action and have at 'em entertainment."

* [[Space Jews]]: Besides the Selachee, a race of shark-descended bankers who try to repossess the planet, we're also introduced to the Chinkos, a race of effeminate, intelligent, subservient aliens enslaved, and subsequently exterminated by the Psychlos. Jonnie even uses the phrase "tired of being Chinko polite," which combined with the author's real-life views leads to some [[Unfortunate Implications]].

** The film changed the name to ''Clinkos'', which is a) idiotic since they still behave like stereotypical Asians, and b) against Scientology rules in that they altered Hubbard's work.

* [[Subspace Ansible]]: Averted, with disastrous consequences for the Psychlo Empire. Communications and cargo can only be exchanged with a teleporter, and the rules of teleportation means that each Psychlo base only has a few scheduled hours each year to make contact with the capital. {{spoiler|So when Jonnie blows up the Psychlo homeworld, ''every other Psychlo planet'', one after another, tries to open a teleporter link into what is effectively a sun}}.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Turns out in a thousand years, the only person on the planet who remembers Hitler thinks he was a military genius and God's chosen instrument to usher in an era of peace and righteousness.