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Author name: Craig Shaw Gardner

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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780765355171
ISBN number: 0765355175
Label: Tor Science Fiction
Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: March 06, 2007
Publishing house: Tor Science Fiction
Sale Popularity Level: 571057
Studio: Tor Science Fiction




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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, but by Cylons!
 
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 . . .




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User popularity level:  out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Quick and Fun BSG Read
I'm not a fan of the show, but my husband is, and he truly enjoyed this story. He read it in only a day, which is a near-record! He said it doesn't exactly follow the show, but it was a good, quick read that fans should really like.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Don't Listen to the Naysayers!!!!
I felt it was important to write this review because when I had decided to read the Battlestar Galactica (BSG) novels, the reviews on amazon.com dissuaded me to buy this one. Only when I was forced to feed my BSG addiction did I read this one, and when I did, I learned that it's negative reviewers were SO WRONG.

If you're expecting to read some literary masterpiece, like "Moby Dick," you will be disappointed. If you're hoping that this book will somehow elevate your BSG universe knowledge, giving you the superior-nerd edge, so that you can brag to your other nerd friends that you know more about BSG than they do and are somehow a bigger fan.....you will be kind-of disappointed.

However, if you are a big fan of the show, like me, and just love any fantasy-adventure into the universe of BSG, you'll enjoy this book.

I really don't understand the naysayers big peeves. I thought this book was fun from beginning to end. It had decent action and maintained a steady plot, unlike "Sagittarius is Bleeding," which went all over the place. I also like how it is the only BSG novel that is brave enough to write about the Colonies before their extermination and the period after the Cylon War. The author also fills in a very believable back-story between Adama's and Tigh's friendship.

All of the BSG books are about the same in literary quality for different reasons:

"Unity" was great because it had the best action, though it was arguably too simple/shallow.

"Sagittarius is Bleeding" was cool because the complexity of its plot and the meaning of the story reached farther, and it had more than a man vs. cylon (nature) plot but also a man vs. man and man vs. himself drama. However, it dragged and could get boring as well as the action being minimal and unsatisfactory.

"Cylon's Secret" felt most like watching a show in the sense that the book was written similarly to how the show is directed. It was consistent and entailed a greater use of imagination. In other words, the author never deviates too far from the plot's natural "flow. Meanwhile he puts in a good amount of suspense and action.


It's a good buy, and a good read. Don't listen to the naysayers!



Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - BSG fans UNITE...to ignore this book.
This author obviously didn't know a darn thing about the source material. He explains in the story that Zarek was brought up on Caprica by well-to-do parents. WHAT?!? Anyone who has watched the show knows full well that Zarek was the son of a dirt poor couple who were basically slaves....ON SAGITARON! That's why he was in prison. He was a freedom fighter/terrorist, fighting for the equal treatment of his people. His story is even fleshed out in the 4 part comic series, BSG: Zarek. His parents were killed when he was young. Killed by the authorities. That's why he fights so hard against the established government. I would say that if you can get over the glaringly dreadful screwup, that it would be an adequate novel, but I just can't excuse this kind of major storyline foulup. Wish I could give it 0 stars, but 1 is the lowest. BSG fans, stay away from this book like it's contaminated. All other people, if you want to get into BSG, read the other books and forget this one exists.



Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - After the First War
This is an interesting story, but it in no way fits with the show's premises. Twenty years after the very first Human-Cylon War, Adama is on the Battlestar Galactica and looking for outposts who lost contact during the war. The find a small outpost and some salvage operators. The salvage operators find the outpost very first but meet disastrous results when making contact. The outpost is a scientific research facility meant to examine the relationship between Human and Cylon. That means that there are Cylon's present. But these Cylon's seem to be living in harmony with the few remaining humans but with the arrival of outsiders it would appear they are not as harmless as thought.

The Galactica crew manages to safely land and make contact with the outpost. Slowly they learn something about what has been going on but it is a surviving salvage crew member that discovers some of the hidden secrets on the planet. When more Cylon's show up, the Galactica crew has to remember that there is an armistice and the Cylons are not currently a foe although prejudice runs deep. Things escalate of course and soon the skies are full of Battlestars and raiders looking to stave off or end a possible Cylon threat.

Knowing that the Cylons have been active in Human space and that they have very powerful ships does not seem like something the Fleet would have completely forgotten about by the time of the show's beginning. Having main characters from the show and multiple Battlestars involved just succeed in making sure this story will not fit with the television show. The book also suffers heavily from the Christmas Curse where books put out too close to the holidays do so without benefit of proof reading. I have enjoyed many books by the author and would like to think that he would have had a better polished product. Could it be this was another instance of a draft getting released as a final copy (i.e. NERILKA'S STORY by McCaffrey)? The draft-like nature and the way it fails to fit the show will have disastrous effects on this book's popularity. But despite the two major flaws I did find the story fun to read but most readers familiar with the show will not be able to overcome the discrepancies.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Fun and Fast-Paced
Battlestar Galactica: The Cylons' Secret, by Craig Shaw Gardner was a surprisingly fun book. I had reservations, as it's been a while since I've watched the new show. But with the very first chapter I was hooked.

The Cylons' Secret is a prequel to the new Battlestar Galactica series. It not only gave a little bit of background on a few main characters, but also had an exciting plot.

Set years after the Cylon War, where the Colonial's artificial intelligent machines revolted, a raider ship stumbles upon a long-forgotten station where humans and Cylons seem to co-exist. But all is not as it appears. And when the Battlestar Galactica comes to investigate, a young William Adama must uncover the secrets before it's too late to save them all.

Gardner did a wonderful job of developing an exciting and suspenseful story with diverse and interesting characters. This was a fun and fast-paced read that any fan of science fiction should enjoy.

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