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The Cylons' Secret (Battlestar Galactica) [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Craig Shaw Gardner , Battlestar Galactica Books
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22. August 2006 Battlestar Galactica
Sometimes no news is bad news.

It's been twenty years since the end of the Cylon war. The twelve human colony worlds are rebuilding, and the Cylons . . . the Cylons have been just too quiet. They are nowhere to be found. The robotic race that tried to obliterate their creators has gone to parts unknown in deep space.

The aftermath of the war has created a new, illegal profession: scavenger. Tom Zarek is one, scouring the outer settlements for valuable Cylon technologies and artifacts and usually returning empty-handed. But now, he and the crew of the Cruiser Lightning have found the Omega Station, a scientific station shrouded in secrecy beyond the edge of charted space. This is it, the big score, except something is wrong…the base is still occupied, not by humans alone; by Cylons too!

The Battlestar Galactica, one of the oldest warships in the fleet, receives the Lightning's distress call, a cryptic one-word message: "Cylons." William Adama, newly promoted to second-in-command, is worried. Most of his crew are green, new recruits, not prepared for anything but the most routine missions. And, as Adama soon discovers, this mission is anything but routine. Omega is indeed full of Cylons, but also something much more disturbing . . .

Produktinformation

  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 304 Seiten
  • Verlag: Tor Books (22. August 2006)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0765315785
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765315786
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21 x 14,8 x 3 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.231.478 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Pressestimmen

Praise for the Battlestar Galactica TV series:

"This story of enemies within is dead serious, and seriously good."
--James Poniewozik, Time Magazine

"It's all been said before, but I'll say it again: Battlestar Galactica is much, much better than you can possibly imagine. The battle scenes are claustrophobic and paranoia-inducing; the power struggles are complicated and nuanced like the ones you find on "The Sopranos;" the stakes are always high, and there's an incredible amount of action in each episode."
--salon.com

"An intensely suspenseful journey of survival … gripping, scary, and well worth staying home on Fridays to watch … TV's most provocative fantasy adventure …"
--TV Guide "Roush Rave"

"Rapidly shaping up to be the most influential Science Fiction series since Babylon 5 and the original Star Trek."
--TV Zone magazine

"Serious and sexy, Battlestar Galactica is the best sci fi on TV."
--CFQ (Cinefantastique)

"…this Battlestar is smart enough and entertaining enough to win you over."
--Robert Bianco, USA Today

"With its hot, androgynous heroine leading the remnants of humanity against evil, God-fearing robots, Battlestar Galactica is boldy re-creating sci-fi TV."
--salon.com

"Galactica is back, better than ever . . . You don't have to love sci-fi to love Battlestar Galactica. . . a great TV series."
--USA Today

Synopsis

After the Cylon War, the Cylons retreated to parts unknown in deep space, and the twelve human colonies rebuilt that which was destroyed in the devastating war. The two sides honour their armistice agreement, and for twenty years nothing is heard from the Cylons. But sometimes no news is bad news. For the humans, the aftermath of the war has created a new, albeit illegal, profession: scavenger. Tom Zarek is one of these scavengers, scouring the outer settlements for valuable Cylon technologies and artifacts, usually returning empty-handed. But now, he and the crew of the cruiser Lightning have found the Omega Station, a scientific facility shrouded in secrecy beyond the edge of charted space. This is it, the big score-except something is wrong...the base is still occupied, and not by humans, but by Cylons! The Battlestar Galactica receives the Lightning's distress call, getting the coordinates and a cryptic one-word message: "Cylons." A younger William Adama, just promoted to second in command, is worried. His crew is not prepared to deal with more than the most routine of missions.

And this mission is anything but routine, as they discover the base is full of Cylons, but also something much more disturbing...and deadly. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .


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3.0 von 5 Sternen Not Good, not bad! 28. April 2010
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
The Cylons' Secret is the first standalone-novel based on the Reimagined BSG-Series. The author spins an interesting plot with a fast-pacing story, a lot of action-scenes, good interesting characters and asks a lot of moral questions in the epic scifi-style that's makes the stories in the universes of star trek, Babylon 5 and so on since over 40 years so unique. So the story in itself is a solid when not an outstanding work. Now why I'm rating this novel so bad? The author who wrote a good story seems to ignore all known facts from the history already established back when the book was published. Critical events get mixed up, for example:
His attempts to work events into the backstories of Adama, Tigh, Zarek, and the Colonies that simply don't fit - we're supposed to believe that news of the Cylons lurking about in a Dreadnaught ("close to ten times the size of Galactica") wouldn't leak from the crews of 6 battlestars to the rest of the populace, right after we're told that the Admiral couldn't keep the CIC personnel on the Galactica from blabbing to the rest of the crew. Yet, we're told in the TV series that nobody has seen the Cylons since the armistice - that's a critical backstory element.

On the other hand he tries to create a vivid scenario, cut off from civilization where Cylons and humans work and life in peaceful cooperation and maybe even can exchange feelings? In itself a good concept but the author seriously mixed up with a lot of continuity issues, surly he should have made a better research of what he wants to write about.
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1.0 von 5 Sternen Cynical fraudulent tie-in hack job 20. September 2006
Von L. Masco - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
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This book is nothing more than a hack job, intended to cash in on the Battlestar Galactica name. The author has no regard for Battlestar Galactica continuity, and violates it left and right.

He attempts to work events into the backstories of Adama, Tigh, Zarek, and the Colonies that simply don't fit - we're supposed to believe that news of the Cylons lurking about in a Dreadnaught ("close to ten times the size of Galactica") wouldn't leak from the crews of 6 battlestars to the rest of the populace, right after we're told that the Admiral couldn't keep the CIC personnel on the Galactica from blabbing to the rest of the crew. Yet, we're told in the TV series that nobody has seen the Cylons since the armistice - that's a critical backstory element.

Cylon Wariors from the period of the war look like the 1978 series' Centurions, not like the more modern versions that Shaw describes.

The Colonial High Command would not have been as lackadaisical about computer control of the Colonial military, had they known that a Cylon Dreadnaught was still out there at the edges of human space - even 20 years after the fact. Especially when they had been concerned enough to send 6 battlestars after it.

I can only guess that this was a manuscipt that the author had sitting around, in which he replaced his own characters with the BSG characters - labelling this as Battlestar Galactica is a fraud. I haven't been this angry about a book in a long, long time - unless you're short of material to burn in a fireplace, avoid this one... you won't know how bad a sucker job you missed. And if you see Craig Shaw Gardner, tell him I want my three hours back.
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1.0 von 5 Sternen Misleading at Best 7. Oktober 2006
Von Mr. Robert C. Elsenpeter - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
Format:Taschenbuch
Before I get too far, I'd just like to say I only got to page 77 of this book. If it picked up and got better by page 78, then I missed it. Unfortunately, the frst quarter of this book was a snoozer.

If I had picked up a phone book I'd have a better chance of finding people I knew that reading this thing. Set 20 years in the past (ugh) the author tries to make a lot of his own square pegs fit into the BSG round holes . Too bad they just don't fit.

This book seemed more like a rewrite of a 1960s Star Trek episode, trying to be shoehorned into BSG -- 20 years in the past.
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2.0 von 5 Sternen Blegh!! Written for 12-year olds 30. Oktober 2006
Von Harvey Moul - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
Format:Taschenbuch
Utter crap. Reads like the outline to a bad fan-fiction movie, complete with a girl-crush from the plucky young heroine on a young Tom Zarek.

For anyone that seriously enjoys the show, you need to skip this "book" and pretend it doesn't exist. Reading it will be painful and annoying - thankfully it is a very quick read so the torture doesn't drag on too long.

On a more serious note, it is written for preteens with a crude, simplistic plot and nearly non-existent character development. There are gaping plot holes and serious deviations from established canon that are distracting. While it claims to "based upon" the re-imagined series, the word "loosely" should be included in that statement.
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