Battlestar Galactica

by Carver, Jeffrey A.

• ISBN13: 9780765315410
• ISBN10: 0765315416
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-27
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

In 1978, Battlestar Galactica appeared, an SF television series starring Lorne Greene of Bonanza fame and a cast of young actors. Inspired by Star Trek and Star Wars, the original series, though it lasted only a single season, is fondly remembered. Now Battlestar Galactica has been resurrected in spectacular fashion by Ronald Moore, for many years a successful writer and director of Star Trek episodes. With sharply written, literate scripts and a cast of fine actors led by Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, the reborn Battlestar Galactica has been a huge success, first as a miniseries, and now as a continuing series on the Sci Fi Channel. Tor Books is proud to publish a novel based on the exciting, suspenseful miniseries. Humanity created the robotic Cylons to help itself, but the Cylons turned on their makers and fought a terrible war until the armistice. Forty years later, the Cylons are . . . different. Now they look and act human. Some of them even think they are human. When the Cylons attack the twelve human worlds, only a single ship survives the onslaught: the oldest ship in the fleet, Battlestar Galactica. Led by Commander Adama, President Laura Roslin, and pilots like the fiercely independent Starbuck and Lee Adama, the refugees fight for the survival of humanity in a riveting epic of interstellar adventure.

Author Biography

Jeffrey A. Carver’s most recent novel, Eternity’s End, was a finalist for the Nebula Award. The author of more than a dozen novels, he lives in Arlington, MA.

Excerpts

DESPERATE TIMES

He was desperate, and that creaky old warship still had some juice left in it. He was willing to roll the dice; it could be humanity’s last chance. Commander William Adama, now the highest-ranking military officer on the Twelve Colonies, had no choice but to pin his hopes on the fleet’s ragtag survivors aboard the Battlestar Galactica, a relic that was supposed to be mothballed to become a museum.

And who is humanity’s last hope? Apollo? Adama’s son is a straight arrow, a much needed voice of reason in the tumultuous times aboard the ship and especially in the power struggles between his father and President Roslin, who rose to her position by being the highest ranking surviving politician. Starbuck? Apollo’s complete opposite, the cigar-chomping, defiant hell-raiser is the best pilot in the fleet, but her reckless abandon in action--and off-duty-- may lead to the entire ship’s undoing. Some pin hopes on Gaius Baltar, an unparalleled genius . . . but he was personally responsible for betraying mankind, the one secret he may not be able to live with. And if humanity’s chances weren’t bad enough, one of the crew members could actually be a Cylon, without even knowing it.

Somehow, Adama has to find a way to keep the old rust-bucket Galatica in one piece, and humanity’s hopes alive, or all its striving will have been in vain.

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Excerpted from Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A. Carver
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