The Young Warriors (Battlestar Galactica) [Mass Market Paperback]

Glen A. Larson (Author), Robert Thurston (Author)

Book Description

Series: Battlestar Galactica | Publication Date: November 25, 2003

On a routine reconnaissance mission, Starbuck crashlands on a world where the Cylons have wiped out most of the adult population, leaving tribes of children in charge. It's Lord of the Flies meets The Guns of Navarone as Starbuck leads the children in a daring raid to free their father from the Cylons.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: I Books; Reprint edition (November 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743475178
• ISBN-13: 978-0743475174
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,343,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Redeeming an inferior episode, August 6, 2004

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RevDorothyL "DorothyL" (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Young Warriors (Battlestar Galactica) (Mass Market Paperback)

I bought all 14 of the Berkley/Ace 'Battlestar Galactica' novels when they first came out (mainly out of loyalty to the TV series, which -- for all its flaws -- had been the high-point of my week during a particularly trying time in High School), and I was VERY pleasantly surprised by this one, co-authored by Robert Thurston (who also co-authored all four of the quite-decent original novels, #11-14 in that series).

All of the rampantly sexist attitudes in the TV episode "The Young Lords" (which made me cringe even in 1978) are redeemed and turned on their heads in THE YOUNG WARRIORS, beginning with the change in title.

Instead of a younger brother giving orders to his submissive older sister and obsessing about rescuing his father from the Cylons, this novelization gives us an oldest sister who is as much real warrior/leader as eye-candy for Starbuck, and the leader of their resistance movement, whom they wish to rescue, is the children's wise and formidable MOTHER.

There was, as I recall, nothing cheesy, juvenile, or misogynistic in the TV episode which THE YOUNG WARRIORS didn't at least ATTEMPT to transform into something intelligent, intriguing, and empowering, whenever possible.

As in Glen Larson's novelization of the 'Battlestar Galactica' pilot, which became the first book in this series, the Cylons in this book are still organic life-forms within their armor, rather than the inorganic artificial life-forms they became in the on-air version of the BG pilot.

Once you accept that we're dealing with Larson's alternative model for the Cylons, here, the avid BG fan should find this an enjoyable read, and a vision of what the aired episode MIGHT have been, had the TV series been given the time to mature and build on its strengths.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Young Lords, August 23, 1998

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This review is from: The Young Warriors (Battlestar Galactica 4 ) (Paperback)

OK, the big question is why in the world was this episode of Battlestar Galactica chosen to be a novel? I just don't understand. It is the TV episode which was called "The Young Lords" and chronicles Starbuck's adventures on the planet Antila when he gets shot down by a Cylon raider during a patrol. Glen Larson and Robert Thurston try hard to make a good story out of this, but I'm afraid that the original material is just not there. It's OK, as a minimal action-adventure story, but it doesn't light the world on fire. Starbuck is rescued by a band of children who have been fighting the Cylon garrison on the backwater swamp planet Antila. The story centers on rescueing Megan, the mother of some of the children. It is pretty faithful to the TV episode except for three major items: 1) Cylons are really sentient beings who are dying off because of diseases; 2) Spectre, the Cylon base commander, is making his own robotic versions of the centurions and lying about it to the Cylon leaders; and 3) the children ride and communicate telepathically with unicorns!! These points were not in the original TV show. Of course, in the show, the Cylons were already robots! The other interesting thing about this book is that it is told partially in excerpts from Miri's book, a diary of one of the elder children (a beautiful girl who Starbuck eyes, of course). In the end, they save the captured prisoners of the Cylon garrison and Starbuck is rescued. For a fan of Battlestar, you should read it, and I recommend it for anyone who might be interested in this story or TV episode, but I still can't figure out why they tried to make a novel out of this story. It is constantly rated as one of the worst episodes of the series. A much better choice could have been The Hand of God, which was the last episode. Some of the other episodes which were converted into novels are questionable too, but I will get to them when I finish reading those.

2.0 out of 5 stars tv episodes, April 24, 2009

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jonasluck1234 "love dvd and books" (new zealand) - See all my reviews

never liked the planet of children episode with starbuck ,couldnt see kids taking the cylons on one on one ,still dirk benedit did get to lock lips with audrey landers that in itself has inspired fantasies over the years, anyway dont buy unless you want more back story on the tv episodes