![]() The modern day parallels with Post-9/11 America are there and hard to ignore, right down to the disputes between civil and military leaders as they try to balance the need to preserve some semblance of normal life and liberties with the need for security. The Cylons rebelled and, after a long absence, return to ruthlessly destroy the Twelve Colonies of Man in a sudden, devastating surprise attack, leaving the Galactica as the sole surviving warship left to protect a handful of survivors.įurthermore, the Cylons have also evolved so that some of them now look human so the human survivors have a devastated society facing an enemy of their own creation they cannot always identify and do not fully understand. ![]() In the new version the Cylons were originally created by the humans. Thus, while the premise is still that of the original - survivors of the near extermination of the human race by the robotic Cylons fleeing in search of the legendary planet Earth - the new Galactica has a much darker and very modern perspective. ![]() ![]() However, rather than continuing the original series as many long-term Galactica fans had hoped, Sci-Fi took the radical decision to "re-imagine" it, taking the basic premise and set of characters of the original and re-building them from the ground up. ISBN 978-5-6īattlestar Galactica is a novelisation of Sci-Fi Channel's 2003 mini-series revival (now ( 2007) in its third season) of the iconic but short-lived 1970s science-fiction series. ![]() Review of Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A Carver Fiction Reviews ![]()
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