Battlestar Galactica

By: Robert Thurston

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 042504078X
• ISBN13: 9780425040782
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Berkley Medallion Books
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

As the Seventh Millennium of Time approaches

The Human-Cylon peace accords are a ruse by the genocidal Cylons, determined to exterminate all humanity. Only the battlestar Galactica and a ragtag Fleet survive, journeying across the galaxy in search of a long-lost sister civilization, Earth. On the first leg of their journey, the Fleet is lured to the planet Carillon for fuel and relaxation--and barely survives a trap by the Ovions, an underground, insectoid species in league with the Cylons

It captures the wonder of the original television movie with no added filler

I still remember the night when the original television movie "Battlestar Galactica" first appeared on television. As a science fiction buff, I was transfixed by the quality of the special effects and the Cyclons. The storyline and the action made for an excellent beginning. Unfortunately, the remainder of the series failed to live up to the start. With all the wide and empty slate of space to work with, the writers and producers found it difficult to get beyond simple human concepts. This book is the novelization of the original movie and compared to other books in the genre it is quite good. The authors manage to capture most of the wonder and drama of the movie and avoid the common mistake of adding inconsequential filler. I still enjoy (re)reading it nearly three decades after the movie first appeared.

brilliant concept.

When I was 7 Battlestar came out, and i was instantly a fan. I wanted everything i could find related to the series, from action figures to comic books. This was published soon after the movie and series premiered. I recall it being in my elemetary school library, and I checked it out repeatedly.Back then we had no VCRs to record and rewatch shows, so having this book was the closest thing. It was like a comic book, but with actual photos from the movie, with word balloons like comics. It told the whole movie. It was also very nicely done on high closs paper.I treasured this book until it disappeared from the school library. What a trip back down memory lane it is to find this now some 26 years later.

There are those who believe that life here began out there

There are those who believe that life here began out there with tribes of humans who could have been the ancestors of Aztecs, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans... Welcome to Battlestar Galactica. The short-lived, mistakenly cancelled Space: Above and Beyond of the '70s. BG was a series about a war between the 12 Colonies of Man and the machine-ruled Cylon Empire. It's the story of Adama, the Commander of the last surviving Colonial Battlestar Galactica. Like S:AAB, peace talks are used as a ruse. The human traitor Count Baltar, has sold the human race down the proverbial river. While the peace conference is in session, aboard the Battlestar Atlantia, the Colonial Fleet's flagship, Captain Apollo and his brother, Lieutenant Zac, who took Starbuck's place on the routine patrol because Starbuck, a gambler, wanted to play Pyramid, a game like poker, in which the object is to get the capstone. Starbuck's partners in crime are Boomer and Jolly. In the book, they're described as being like Mutt and Jeff. The Sci-Fi Channel used to air the series. If they do it again, watch for a young Jane Seymour.