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Battlestar Galactica, an original SCI FI Channel miniseries, electrified viewers and critics alike and was hailed as a landmark in sci-fi television. Here, for the first time, is the novel based on that exciting drama.
For forty years, the Twelve Colonies of Man were at peace, united since the war against the robotic Cylons. These mechanical beings, created by mankind to perform the manual labor civilization required, were gone forever…or so humanity thought.
But in those years, the Cylons developed new Cylons that looked and acted like humans…and then they attacked the Twelve Worlds.
Only a single warship survived the massive attack: Battlestar Galactica, the oldest ship in the fleet, ready to be decommissioned and turned into a museum. Commander William Adama, himself set to retire, had but one course: to marshal his meager forces, and somehow keep the Cylons from wiping out the last vestiges of the human race. But their inhuman Cylon enemies—stronger, smarter, and driven to destroy—may be too powerful for them, and all of humanity, to survive.
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Robert Christia
reviewed Battlestar Galactica on February 07, 2012
Battlestar Galactica
The two stars are for the plot and characters, which are amazing and stunning - but the writing really lets it down.
There are far too many cases of showing not telling here, and not just that, telling over and over. The prose is extremely flat. What happens as a result is that scenes that were thrilling, or charming, or heartwrenching, just go over with no impact at all. One example - a CAG, watching his shipmates die around him as their ships go dead, waiting for his own death seconds away? "His heart sank." Yeah. It would. And the sex scenes are just... embarrassingly bad.
Every character is introduced with a description-dump. I also wasn't impressed that the non-white characters were all racially marked and the white characters weren't, which doesn't remotely make sense in-universe with the race-blind casting. How can Boomer have "Oriental features"? Which Colony is Oriental? It was just sloppy. Laura spends her entire time saying "Why me? Why my body?" in her head. The Sixes do *everything* in a sexy or sensual way, regardless of whether they were actually turning on the heat at the time. And so on. And then every emotion and motive was over-explained, in the same flat style.
I ended up just skimming this. Really disappointed, because I am so attached to the characters, the story, and the universe. This novelisation, for all it is a word-for-word transcript, didn't do it justice.
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