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Battlestar Galactica Photostory

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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.

This is a comic book version of the original movie of Battlestar Galactica. Not the newer Tv series.It is regular paperback size.It's a nice thing to have for the Battlestar Galactica fan.

I picked this book up in the sale section of the local library, long before the new series premiered, or the old series was out on DVD. We're talking mid/late-90s, here.
While I "enjoyed" the book, there was nothing to be enthralled with between the covers. It delivers the same general style of action as the show and movie, with a few shifts and contradictions to show for it. There was a hint of sexuality to it (how can there not be with Starbuck around?), but nothing beyond a mention-in-passing of a woman's figure, so even that wasn't a new thing.
If you like the old series, you'll like this book. While I am fond of the old, I am much more a fan of the new, though I did grow up on reruns of the old BSG. But this is just another book about a TV show universe.

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 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.

Your standard novelization type deal. The start of the series turned into a book, which is certainly fun for a kid wanting to go through it again.

Robots blowing everything up, robot dogs, cool space pilots, and all that sort of thing. Nothing really wrong with this effort from that point of view.

I bought this book with Amazon from "bying from me". She sent it by priority mail. I am very pleased with this book because Battlestar Galactica is my favourite tv series ever. So, I wanted to "live" and understand the story. This book will help me.
Thanks a lot.
Laurence