BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - REBELLION

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Written by Richard Hatch and Alan Rodgers

A NOVEL BASED ON THE UNIVERSAL TELEVISION SERIES CREATED BY GLEN A. LARSON

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Cover art by Frank Frazetta;
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Cover design by Raul Carvajal



Battlestar Galactica - Rebellion written by Richard Hatch and Allan Rogers, is the fourth book in a continuation of the Battlestar Galactica universe set 20 years - or yahrens - into the future from the TV series. To escape the Cylons, the Battlestar Galactica - and the ragtag fleet of human Colonial survivors the Galactica is escorting - have warped themselves into a pocket of null-space, in which their engines do not work. And as a result of escaping the cybernetic race of Cylons - whose goal is to exerminate the humans - the fleet have wounded from their battles and their resources are low. With the colonists angered at what has happened to them at being attacked, and being marooned in space, Apollo and Athena are in dire sraits as they have been removed from command - and are thrown into the brig.

This Galactica universe is slightly different than what the TV show Battlestar Galactica was. I have not read the first few books yet, so I do not know if the Galactica universe has changed from the TV show over the course of the books, or if writer/star Richard Hatch was not paying attention to how the TV show was produced when Hatch started writing the books. I can accept that there can be changes after 20 "yahrens" - especially with Commander Adama having passed on. The book still feels a little disorientating - such as when Council President Tigh does not acknowledge that Tigh was once a colonial warrier, let alone Tigh as once having been the Galactica's first officer. Having Cassiopea having a relationship with Apollo instead of with Starbuck also throws me, especially since Starbuck has a daughter pilot now - who goes missing along with Troy, Apollo's son Boxey who had changed his name, and Boomer while they were searching for an inhabitable planet. The question for me was, who was the mother of Starbuck's daughter? That question was not answered in this book, but maybe it is answered in the previous books. There are characters that were mentioned in the TV show Galactica 1980, which was a nice touch of linking that TV show to the book series as they have not discovered present-day Earth yet.

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