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Title: The Young Warriors by Glen A. Larson, Robert Thurston ISBN: 0-7434-7517-8 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Spectre, unicorns, etc.
Comment: I've read books 1 through 9 in this series, and found this one of the deepest and most entertaining of them. It attempts to deal with Starbuck's weariness with war as well as the weariness of the population of the 12 colonies being in the depth of a thousand year war. The telepathic unicorns did not turn me off and I actually thought Starbuck's connection with one of them was carried off very well. Spectre was also a standout. This character was fleshed out more than he was in the tv show (and even in that episode, regardless of how well received it was, Spectre was one of the best guest characters to come along in BG).
The Larson/Thurston novels were by far the best. (The Larson/Goulart novels were terrible, the writing horrible.) And this is the best of the first four Larson/Thurston's. Thurston co-wrote some or all of the books between 11 and 14 also, but I haven't gotten to those yet. But this is definitely the best of the first four.
Rating: 2
Summary: The Young Lords
Comment: 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.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica Classic: The Tombs of Kobol by Glen Larson, Robert Thurston ISBN: 074345815X Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Paradis (Battlestar Galactica) by Richard Hatch, Brad Linaweaver ISBN: 0743474414 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Battlestar Galactica (Book 1) by Glen A. Larson, Robert Thurston ISBN: 0425039587 Publisher: Penguin Putnam~mass Pub. Date: September, 1978 List Price(USD): $1.95 |
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Title: The Cylon Death Machine (Battlestar Galactica, Book 2) by Glen A. Larson ISBN: 0425055183 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 1982 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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Title:Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series (Limited Edition Cylon Head Packaging) ASIN: B00005JM3C Publisher: Universal Studios Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $119.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $107.98 |
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