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Book Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy written by Josef Steiff and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays exploring philosophical, political, and cultural themes of the television show Battlestar Galactica"--Provided by publisher.

Book Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy written by Jason T. Eberl and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PHILOSOPHY/POP CULTURE “The contributors to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy strive to make things relevant to fans of the show, and they put their information out in a way that is accessible to folks who wouldn't know Heidegger from Heineken.” Green Man Review, Spring 2009 "The writers are well versed in their subjects...The book is most effective at making the reader rethink what they thought they knew." Neo-opsis What’s the point of living after your world has been destroyed? This is one of many questions raised by the Sci-Fi Channel’s critically acclaimed series Battlestar Galactica. More than just an action-packed “space opera,” each episode offers a dramatic character study of the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers as they confront existential, moral, metaphysical, theological, and political crises. This volume addresses some of the key questions to which the Colonials won’t find easy answers, even when they reach Earth: Are Cylons persons? Is Baltar’s scientific worldview superior to Six’s religious faith? Can Starbuck be free if she has a special destiny? Is it ethical to cut one’s losses and leave people behind? Is collaboration with the enemy ever the right move? Is humanity a “flawed creation?” Should we share the Cylon goal of “transhumanism?” Is it really a big deal that Starbuck’s a woman?

Book Battlestar Galactica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey A. Carver
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2005-12-27
  • ISBN : 9780765315410
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica written by Jeffrey A. Carver and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel based on the SCI FI Channel's biggest hit series ever!

Book Battlestar Galactica  Downloaded

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica Downloaded written by David Bassom and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battlestar Galactica the ‘re-imagined’ version of the cult 1970s series and now in its fourth and final season is without doubt the most critically acclaimed SF show on TV. With a classy ensemble cast, including Edward James Olmos (Miami Vice) and Mary McDonnell (Independence Day), cutting edge special effects, superb production design and adult-oriented scripts, the new Battlestar Galactica is both a worthy successor to a classic original, and a stunning piece of television in its own right. This official full-colour companion to the first and second seasons is packed with exclusive interviews, stunning photos, behind-the-scenes secrets, and a complete episode guide with in-depth commentary from both cast and crew.

Book Battlestar Galactica  Designing Spaceships

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica Designing Spaceships written by Paul Ruditis and published by Eaglemoss. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book goes behind the scenes on the award-winning TV series Battlestar Galactica to discover the concepts behind the designs of dozens of spaceships! Battlestar Galactica debuted on TV in 1978 and acquired a phenomenal following, breaking new ground for TV drama and winning several awards. It returned to TV screens in 2003 in a critically acclaimed reimagined series, with Time Magazine naming it one of the 100 Best TV Shows of All Time. This behind-the-scenes guide looks at the creation of the ships in both the original and the reimagined series, including vessels of the ragtag fleet and those of the Cylon enemy. Featuring artwork from the groundbreaking first series and the 2004 reimagined series, this volume explores the art of ship creation from the first sketches to the finished designs of the modelmakers. Covering 18 key ships from the two shows, including the Galactica itself, the Vipers and the Cylon Raiders, the pages are packed with original concept art from designers Eric Chu, Andrew Probert and legendary artist Ralph McQuarrie.

Book Battlestar Galactica Trilogy

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica Trilogy written by Peter David and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battlestar Galactica, recognized as one of the most provocative, and socially relevant series of the new millennium, earned its status as a classic American drama series after its very first, Peabody Award-winning season. Here, for the first time in one volume, are all three original Battlestar Galactica novels--based on the highly-lauded TV series that took the country by storm. In The Cylons' Secret, by Craig Shaw Gardner, a ship, scavenging the outer settlements for valuable Cylon technologies after the first human-Cylon war, stumbles on a super-secret scientific outpost beyond charted space. Mere hours later, Battlestar Galactica receives a one-word distress call from the scavenging ship: "Cylons," causing the young Colonel William Adama to investigate. Sagittarius Is Bleeding, by Peter David, concerns President Laura Roslin, whose prophetic dreams have infused her people with hope that they will find Earth, humanity's cradle. But her new dreams of a galaxy overrun by the Cylons disturb her even as they energize an extremist political group. The threat of violent revolt puts Roslin at personal risk and endangers the fleet. In Unity by Steven Harper, Peter Attis, a rock star adored by all the fleet, including Starbuck, has recently been rescued from a Cylon prison ship. But after his first post-return concert, crewmembers are stricken by a strange malady that threatens to lay the fleet open to Cylon attack. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book New Battlestar Galactica Vol  3

Download or read book New Battlestar Galactica Vol 3 written by Greg Pak and published by Dynamite. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Sharon Valerii leads her strange army into the heart of the Cylon empire, she'll find not only the answers to who she is, but the secrets of her very existence. Meanwhile, back on the Galactica, Adama works to put down a violent uprising aboard his ship while battling the "returner" virus that has crippled more than half his crew! Volume III collects issues #9-12 of the companion to the Award-winning SCI FI TV Series, written by Greg Pak and featuring art by Nigel Raynor, Jonathan Lau, and a host of incredible cover artists including Joe Prado, Stephen Segovia, and BSG photo covers!

Book Battlestar Galactica and International Relations

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica and International Relations written by Nicholas J. Kiersey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts – popular or otherwise – for the phenomena that make up the core of our discipline. The genre of science fiction offers the analyst an opportunity that cannot be matched by more mimetic genres, namely the chance to look at how sets of widely-circulating expectations of the social serve to constrain authors as they work to introduce as yet unexplored problematiques, the fantasy aspect in much of science fiction storytelling is premised simply on a material difference. As such, while the physical setting of a science fiction tale might appear novel, its imaginative life world will likely retain many elements of the world we already live in and which we can readily recognize as similar to our own. For Critical IR scholarship then, BSG presents an opportunity to examine how these purported homologies or elements of redundancy between the fantastic and the real have been drawn and perhaps to consider, too, whether the show can teach us things about world politics, its various logics and structures, which we might not otherwise be sensitive to. Tackling some of the key contemporary issues in IR, the writers of BSG have taken on a range of important political themes and issues, including the legitimacy of military government, the tactical utility of genocide, and even the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence technologies for the very category of what it means to be 'human'. The contributors in this book explore in depth the argument that one of the most important aspects of popular culture is to naturalize or normalise a certain social order by further entrenching the expectations of social behaviour upon which our mentalities of rule are founded. This work will be of interest to student and scholars of international relations, popular culture and security studies.

Book Unity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Harper
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-04-03
  • ISBN : 9780765316066
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Unity written by Steven Harper and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original adventure novel based on the hit Battlestar Galactica television series, written by Stephen Harper. The Cylons release a famous singer to the fleet who acts as a Typhoid Mary, carrying a virus that causes nerve and motor tissues to deteriorate. This works to weaken the fleet for a Cylon attack, which will only come when they can no longer fight it off.

Book Religious Science Fiction in Battlestar Galactica and Caprica

Download or read book Religious Science Fiction in Battlestar Galactica and Caprica written by Jutta Wimmler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did it seem strange when Battlestar Galactica ended its narrative on a religious note instead of providing a scientific explanation? And what does this have to do with gender? This book explores the connection between the triumph of religion and the dominance of femininity in Battlestar Galactica and its prequel series Caprica. Both series breached science fiction's convention of representing the "irrationality" of femininity and religion. Analyzing the connections (and disconnections) between women and men, and theology and technology, the author argues that the "Battlestarverse" depicts women as zones of contact between the seemingly contradictory spheres of science and religion by simultaneously employing and breaking gender stereotypes.

Book So Say We All  The Complete  Uncensored  Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica

Download or read book So Say We All The Complete Uncensored Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica written by Edward Gross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, the bestselling authors of the definitive two-volume Star Trek oral history, The Fifty-Year Mission, comes the complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Battlestar Galactica in So Say We All. Four decades after its groundbreaking debut, Battlestar Galactica—both the 1978 original and its 2004 reimagining have captured the hearts of two generations of fans. What began as a three-hour made for TV movie inspired by the blockbuster success of Star Wars followed by a single season of legendary episodes, was transformed into one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved series in television history. And gathered exclusively in this volume are the incredible untold stories of both shows—as well as the much-maligned Galactica 1980. For the first time ever, you will learn the unbelievable true story of forty years of Battlestar Galactica as told by the teams that created a television legend in the words of over a hundred cast, creators, crew, critics and executives who were there and brought it all to life. So Say We All! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Battlestar Galactica  Six

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica Six written by J. T. Krul and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pivotal chapter in the history of Battlestar Galactica, the reimagined series... set before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol! In developing the next generation of Cylons, getting the models to look human was the easy part. But acting human is another story. Witness the evolution of Number Six as she learns to live, to love... and to hate.

Book Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game Corebook

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game Corebook written by Jamie Chambers and published by Margaret Weis Productions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Battlestar Galactica role playing game bring the action and drama of the hit television series to the game table. ... All you need are dice, friends, and your imagination!"--Page 4 of cover

Book Walter Simonson Battlestar Galactica Art Edition

Download or read book Walter Simonson Battlestar Galactica Art Edition written by Walt Simonson and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Simonson's Battlestar Galactica Art Edition commemorates the master draftsman's senses-shattering work on the Battlestar Galactica comic book series published by Marvel Comics from 1979 to 1981. Truly, the adventures of brash pilots Apollo and Starbuck were never so epic as they were under Simonson's skillful hand, as demonstrated in this gorgeous hardcover collection. Scanned in high-resolution color and printed at original size, the Battlestar Galactica Art Edition preserves every detail of the artist's meticulous skill and hard work, interpreted from scripts by contributing writers Roger McKenzie, Steven Grant, Bill Mantlo, Bob Layton, and Simonson himself!

Book Battlestar Galactica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glen A. Larson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780441051045
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica written by Glen A. Larson and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apollo and Starbuck test the new SuperViper, while a secret traitor plots the destruction of the fleet

Book Battlestar Galactica Trilogy

Download or read book Battlestar Galactica Trilogy written by Peter David and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Battlestar Galactica" earned its status as a classic American drama series after its very first, Peabody Award-winning season. For the first time, all three original "Battlestar Galactica" novels--"The Cylons' Secret, Sagittarius Is Bleeding," and "Unity"--are collected in one volume.