These materials contain the full basics of the only game in the universe where everyone wins, the game of triumphant life itself.The L. First-time authors, I’m told, don’t usually take any interest whatsoever in their audiobooks, but as an audiobook fanatic, I was less than thrilled about the narrators my publisher presented to me.L. To this day, scientology is rather still vague and even more secretive than originally thought.Earlier this year, Simon & Schuster let me narrate and engineer my own audiobook, The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans — and Other Possible Phenomena (available now wherever fine audiobooks are sold/downloaded, and also available in ink-and-paper form). In his day, scientology may have been about a revolution of those unhappy with their own religious upbringing. Ron Hubbard may have died in 1986 but his legacy is his scientology religion has grown to popular status.
As a fan, I knew the version of my book I would want to listen to, and I didn’t see it materializing.Fox News is also your go-to source when it comes to coverage of the entertainment industry. Nonfiction narrators sounded too professorial to me, and comedy narrators sounded too wacky. It’s genreless — not quite fiction, and not quite nonfiction, and neither entirely serious, nor meant to be overtly comedic. My book is a little hard to pin down. It won all seven Razzie categories it was nominated in, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Screen Combo for Travolta.They were qualified voice actors, but they wouldn’t have imbued the recording with the personality the book demanded (mine).
“ World War Z and the Alien books were great productions with full casts, but Battlefield Earth was another level. Then I checked the reviews on Audible, and a not insignificant number of people praised it for having the “best audiobook production I’ve ever listened to.” I had my suspicions about these reviewers being shills, but I found reviewers who made it clear that they were connoisseurs like me, which gave them authority. Initially I read this on Reddit, so I thought it was a fluke.
Bookstore employees noticed that Scientologists had been buying up mass quantities of the book, allegedly in order to keep a promise to the publisher that it was a guaranteed bestseller. It was also at the center of a scandal upon its release. Star Wars had just gone dark with The Empire Strikes Back, and in the book world, Battlefield Earth’s contemporaries included Octavia Butler’s Kindred just before it, and William Gibson’s Neuromancer shortly after. At 1,050 pages, it’s a giant doorstop of a book, and given that it was the author’s first work of fiction in three decades, the goofy, old-fashioned yarn that it spun was, to put it mildly, out of style. I knew that upon its release, Battlefield Earth had not been well-received.
He is also a massive fan of Battlefield Earth. You might have even seen him on TV and in viral videos (also, his mom was on Happy Days). He also has a moderately famous face because he’s a world-class impressionist and comedian. Profits from Galaxy Press go toward Applied Scholastics, a program that creates Scientology-friendly K-12 school curriculum.Meskimen is a Scientologist, and has worked on audio projects for Galaxy Press for many years, including voice acting and directing work on audio versions of Hubbard’s short stories. The “they” he was referring to is the management at Galaxy Press, a Scientology-affiliated publishing house that exclusively publishes Hubbard’s fiction, which he churned out prodigiously when he was alive (“I was what they called a high-production writer,” Hubbard wrote in the autobiographical prologue to Battlefield Earth). It’s an audiobook treatment so loving, so thorough, and so expensive that nothing before or since can touch it in terms of quality.“They wanted to do something really over the top,” Battlefield Earth audiobook director Jim Meskimen told me.
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Where other audiobooks are content to goose your emotions at a few choice moments with occasional sounds and a smattering of music, Battlefield Earth is a complete two-day movie for your ears.According to Jim Meskimen, Galaxy didn’t want a repeat of the earlier Battlefield Earth audiobook. But as an audiobook, it turns into a rich and rewarding experience in which 65 actors give every character a unique voice. Without any Scientology baggage, it would probably rank somewhere in the middle on the list of ambitious sci-fi stories — somewhere between William Shatner’s TekWar novels and TV’s Babylon 5, maybe.
Audiobook creators have what veteran audiobook narrator, producer, and director Paula Parker calls “a nice strong piece of the publishing pie now.” They’re on the verge of being a billion-dollar industry, achieving 25 percent year-on-year growth since 2017.A cosplayer at the 2016 Silicon Valley Comic Con dressed as Terl, the villain from Battlefield Earth. That’s all different today. On some level, it felt like dramatized audiobooks were for dum-dums. They were a novelty product, to be used as the basis for a middle school book report at great peril. “They just left out massive chunks of the story.”In fact, most of the fun books on tape were abridged back then. “I love that performance,” Meskimen told me, but as for the abridgement, “They did a crappy job,” he said.
The guy who plays Shrek in the Shrek video games Meskimen, a vocal chameleon, fills in many of the smaller roles himself. The Battlefield Earth cast included sci-fi narrator extraordinaire Stefan Rudnicki, as well as Nancy Cartwright, who you might recognize as the voice of Bart Simpson, and Michael Gough, a.k.a. “It was Chick Corea’s old recording studio, so it was quite nice,” he told me. “But at the same time, everybody had the understanding that wanted this to be really special.” According to Meskimen, Battlefield Earth was recorded at the luxurious, Scientology-owned Mad Hatter studios located in Silver Lake. “It wasn’t that money was no object or anything like that,” Meskimen told me.
Multi-hour full-cast audio dramas are nothing new. It’s a proof of concept for a type of blockbuster audio storytelling that didn’t exist before, and a template for future producers and directors to use as a guide — but only if they’ll actually acquire and listen to, well, Battlefield Earth.I’m not saying the Battlefield Earth audiobook is a sui generis work, however. Better to say it has none of the sacrifices. It would be wrong to say it has all the bells and whistles. It took nine months to record the whole thing.The Battlefield Earth audiobook, with its full cast, its foley work, and its hours and hours of original music, is the fulfillment of something audiobook superfans have imagined might eventually come along, but which never quite happened. There were six to 10 people in the recording studio at any given time, he said, and he worked an average of 12 hours a day.
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These were all available in pricey boxed sets when I was a kid, and were known as “books on tape,” even though the term wasn’t quite accurate.When it comes to recordings like these, there’s always the sticky matter of whether the book on tape was actually the book to begin with, or if it was an adaptation — a sort of altered radio drama with the same name as the book. And in the ’80s, NPR made the Star Wars movies into a series of audio dramas.
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