Book review: The Cylons' Secret
Timothy Sandefur has an advanced review posted about the Battlestar Galactica novel The Cylons' Secret. He wasn't that impressed:
I’ve just finished an advance reading copy of the new Battlestar Galactica novel. I won’t spoil the story for you, except to say that you shouldn’t get your hopes up. On the positive side, Gardner makes the story much more science fictiony than BSG has sometimes been; I’ve long thought that the show has been slightly overzealous in avoiding futurism. But the combination of deities ex machinae (three, by my count), marvelous coincidences (at least two), and complete lack of foreshadowing, render the plot utterly unbelievable and uninteresting.
That is sad to hear... It sounded like a really good premise. Anyone else have a different opinion?
Yeah, seems bad with lasers in BSG land. That's just not right.
Posted by: Brett J. | June 01, 2006 at 03:39 PM