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Summary: An Interesting Continuation of the Short-Lived Series
Review: As a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica, I was very happy to see a new book out. It was worth reading for curiosity's sake, although I was disappointed with certain aspects. I think it was a mistake to continue the story 17 years after the TV show left off. I would have liked to have seen a much smaller gap. I was very pleased, however, to see Athena used as a prominent character in the story, considering how she was downplayed in the TV series. While I personally prefer BG fan fiction, I think fans of the original show will find something to enjoy in "Armaggedon".
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Summary: Did not follow the TV show's continuity
Review: Great story if it was written before Galactica 1980. Don't forget Adama was alive thirty years after the Galactica and fleet left the colonies for Earth. Apollo had died at the hands of the Cylons, Starbuck crashed on a planet only to help deliver Dr.Zee to the fleet and Boomer was a full colonel during Galactica 1980. One story element holds true and that is the character of Troy. Obviously the writers did not consult the short-lived Galactica 1980 series for their book because the first chapter of this new book is totally inconsistent with the actual series. Too bad because had the series survived before Galactica 1980 I'm sure it would have gone in the direction Richard Hatch has forseen. But sorry guys, your timeline of events and the death of Adama is inconsistent with what has been written before and televised before. Next time check your background information first. Side note, the character of Rigel was a woman played by actress Sarah Rush, check your end credits of each Original Series episode. Way too many inconsistencies!
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Summary: Good book, takes you right back into the Galactica story!
Review: Despite what others said, I really enjoyed this book! It takes you deeper into the feelings of the charcters. I wish Richard Hatch all the luck in the world trying to get this story back on its feet!
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Summary: Not a bad story, but it seems repetitive.
Review: Mr. Hatch is doing Galactica fans a wonderful service and could really pull off a remake (I hope). However, this book needed another going over to make it more professional. Not to upset the man as he is a likable person and I admire him greatly, but the writing style needs to be honed just a bit more. He will move the characters through a situation in chapter 4 and in chapter 5 recap what had happened. I found examples like this very distracting and it took away from the flow of an otherwise good story. Altho, the beginning seemed a bit too padded for me. Too much mourning over the passing of Adama and worry over who's to be commander. Isn't the Galactica under martial law? Are elections for Commanders really an issue? Why not just promote Apollo? Why whould his own sister turn against him? And so forth. the infighting was annoying, but the continuation of the story and Baltar's story was fascinating (altho, I feel that if he were really no longer needed, the Cylons would just kill him. Always wondered why Baltar WANTED to catch the humans. That would spell his end anyway...). Ah well, Warhawk is probably better...(I hope)
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Summary: The Next Best Thing to A New "Galactica" Movie or Series!
Review: Needless to say, being a fan of "Battlestar Galactica" from way back in childhood (it was the first sci-fi series I was ever exposed to), I was very excited to hear that this book had been published. And even more excited to find it on Amazon.com after fruitless searches in local book retailers. The story itself is an excellent continuations of the "Galactica" saga and it's obvious that Richard Hatch has a deep and profound love and understanding for the concept. Some might have a problem with the novel's stripped-down, bare bones narrative style which does the job of getting the reader from point "A" to point "B" but doesn't allow for a lot of in-depth characterization. However, some people (like myself) with a visual mind can picture the action as they read along, as if it were a new episode of this series. Hopefully the fact that it doesn't read like Frank Herbert's "Dune" series (with explanations of explanations and so forth) will not be a turn-off to potential new fans. Overall, I would say that this novel is a definite must for any "Battlestar Galactica" fan, and an enjoyable, easy read for anyone just interested in a good, escapist yarn.
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Summary: It was nice to see the Galactica "flying" again, but...
Review: ...I was disappointed with the quality of the writing (the actual writing - not the story). I was not expecting elegant prose, but it would have been nice had the writing and sentence structure been geared at the very least toward someone of the high school age group; there were many bothersome incomplete sentences, while many others provided very little detail that was not absolutely essential to the story. I had been hoping for something on the caliber of the first two Larson/Thurston novels (let's face it - the other 12 books in the original series did not compare to the first two). Alas, I was disappointed. Storywise, however, it was nice to see the women in the Galactica universe having something to do other than play doorbell and "nurse Nancy."
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Summary: Less psi, more Galactica
Review: I looked forward to Armageddon being a book about the charachters I have watched and read about over the years, instead I read a book about psychic powers of an elite few, minimal character development and little about what had happened in the interveining 18 yahren. I was hoping for more character development and action.I got a large amount of pseudo religion that I don't feel the fan is looking for. The things I was looking for were there, just in too small a quantity. I hope that the new book will be better.
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Summary: Weak.
Review: I am a big fan of Battlestar Galactica, and was expecting more from this book than I got. It borrows heavily from Star Wars, Star Trek, and even Wing Commander. Boring character development kept putting me to sleep.
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Summary: Battlestar Galactica Shines Again In Engrossing Read
Review: Much has been written about Battlestar Galactica, the story of a mammoth warship guarding the last survivors of Twelve Worlds seeking the final outpost of humanity - Earth. It began as a television series in 1978, one that lasted but one season due to the show's expense and to network indifference. A spinoff series ran briefly in 1980 but was unsatisfying at most levels. Battlestar Galactica has often been condemned as poorly conceived and abysmally written. True, it was made into a weekly series when it should have been a series of bi-monthly movies (the original concept creator-producer Glen Larson had in mind) and as a result scripts had a very uneven quality to them. That they nonetheless turned out quite well says a great deal about the concept. It wasn't until Rob Liefeld and Robert Napton came out with a Battlestar Galactica comic book series in 1995 that the concept truly came into its own. The comic was beautifully written and created, able to explore c! haracters and ideas the show was unable to explore at the time of its initial run, and remains among the finest graphic novels ever put to print. Richard Hatch, the show's star as Captain Apollo, contributed one of the comic's stories, "Apollo's Journey," a story that served as a rough draft for the novel he has coauthored with Chris Golden. Hatch expands on the basic "Apollo's Journey" storyline and co-fashions a gripping read. The Galactica and the fleet of refugee ships under her protection are caught in the grip of political turmoil, as Commander Adama, the fleet's leader since the Final Destruction of the Twelve Colonies, dies. The turmoil, it turns out, is the machinations of Count Iblis, a mystical being with a stunning tie to the scourge of the fleet, the Cylons. The plot and its branches are too extensive to detail here, but they are grippingly laid out, with superb exploration of the huge cast of characters created for Galactica. Th! ere are minor nits to pick - the novel lists the Galactica ! as only carrying 75 fightercraft, yet the ship's vast size - well over 2,000 feet in length - allows the fielding of nearly 200 fightercraft. But such quibbles don't greatly injure what is an immensely enjoyable story.
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Summary: Battlestar Galactica Is Back & It's About Time
Review: Twenty years later and Richard Hatch didn't miss a beat. Great start to a new series of stories. Looking forward to many more.
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