A Lenda Viva

Battlestar Galactica #6

by Glen A. Larson, Michael Resnick

Um grande guerreiro regressou para chefiar a Galactica. O comandante Cain, a lenda viva do cosmos, dirige as suas forças num ataque desesperado contra os Cylons, chefiados pelo impiedoso Baltar.

Mas será este herói mítico realmente um génio militar, ou unicamente um déspota excêntrico enlouquecido pelas feridas do tempo?


Baseado no episódio "The Living Legend".

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In

Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Glen Albert Larson was an American television producer and writer best known as the creator of the television series Battlestar Galactica, Quincy, M.E., The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, B. J. and the Bear, The Fall Guy, Magnum, P.I. and Knight Rider.

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very nice entertaining read. If you are a fan of the old TV show you will enjoy these books. They are well written and read like an episode of the show. Entertaining read. Recommended

[Ubiquitousbastard · Rating 4 out of 5]

For something so short and simple, I certainly have plenty to say about his book. I know that sounds bizarre, but for a sci-fi book it certainly isn't typical. Since there is so much to be said, I'm just going to go in the order that I recall things.

Firstly, the Mormon influence showed a bit more in this book. Did it bother me? No. It was apparent but brief and mostly inconsequential to everything else.

Second, This book really made me have to accept that Apollo dies somehow and it isn't very long after the tv series ended. That makes me exceptionally sad, even though he isn't my favorite. So just for the fact that this book could make me get all melancholy, I'm kind of impressed.

This is more observation than critique, but compared to the others in the book series, this more exactly followed what happened in the corresponding episodes. Since those episodes were good, but since I tend to prefer the way the books take on the plot, I'm going to call it a draw in this case.

Now, I almost gave this three stars because I don't like Cassiopeia and there was just, a lot of her, but the Adama parts were just enough to push it over into four stars for me.

[Michael]

This book had some good and some annoying things. For the good, the insight into cylon culture, especially from Lucifer's point of view, was fun to read. The annoying was the constant repetition of phrases. "For two yarans" was repeated way to often. Also calling Commanger Cain the "Jugernaught", right after using his name became very annoying. It felt like different people wrote each chapter without reading the previous chapters, thinking their use of the phrases were the first to do so.

[Charles Winters · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding book, real page turner, add more details that were not in the tv episode.

[Dawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75 rating

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Commander Cain always had to do it his way no matter what anyone else or those in charge thought.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nicholas Yermakov was blessed by receiving commissions to write the two best episodes (besides the pilot) of the old BG series. How does anyone get so lucky? He did a wonderful job on BG7 in this series. But here there were some misfires. If I were writing this episode, I would have played up the Cain-Adama differences, the deeper meaning of their approaches, and dwelled more on that dramatic conflict. It was central. However, Yermakov seemed to barely touch on it. He spent time instead on lengthy prose narration and long paragraphs, particularly toward the end of the novel. I really think he missed the point of this great story.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read.