Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #841119 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Synopsis
After their world is destroyed in a surprise attack, a group of human stragglers flees the evil Cylon Empire in a convoy of space vehicles searching for a mythical homeland known only as "Earth.".

Customer Reviews

Civil war threatens to destroy the Fleet!
After the first Galactica trilogy, Rebellion is a very different type of book indeed. Whereas the first three gave us a very grand and sweeping saga like the original series, Rebellion reads like 'an episode set entirely on the ship'.
After the battle of Kobol, the Fleet has made a hyperlight jump using the co-ordinates that both Apollo and Athena received by telepathic communication from an as yet unknown source. However, instead of finding a safe haven for the people, the Fleet becomes trapped in an Ur Cloud, a place where the engines will not function and power is slowly drained away.
With the Fleet facing imminent danger, ships powering down, supplies low combined with the disappearance of their supply vessels, the Quorum stir up a rebellion against the military and try to stage a coup.
The characters of the Quorum are unfortuantely a little two diemnsional, the typical egocentric megalomaniacs but that said they were like that in the series :)
Some elements of the story are a little confusing and the physics of certain things is a little rusty but the highlight of this book (very much like the new series) is Baltar. The dialogue between him and Apollo is excellently written and lays the ground for some rather disturbing plotlines yet to come about the Cylons. The ending of the book jumps ahead to the middle of the next novel Paradis as a taste of what's to come and the true nature of Cassiopia's baby is both chilling and disturbing.
All in all, Rebellion isn't a bad book, it's like the calm before the storm but a must have for those great Baltar moments.

Classic Galactica or a waste of your time ?
The anticipation for this book has been so great since finishing the last one. Richard Hatch's series of books have been getting better and better. Is this the book that changes that trend or does it carry on with the stadards set before it. The first few pages were, I found, quite confusing and I was seriously worried that Mr Hatch had wandered to far away from the original Galactica universe and then, all of a sudden, WHAM! I was back in the Galactica universe and could not get out until I had read every last page. The story gently sucks you in until it is too late. I read this book in 2 days, and I am a slow reader. I had to know what happens to my beloved characters and could not stop reading until I knew. This book is about the political wranglings and deviousnous within the Galactica and not about the Cylons as much as the previous books which means you learn alot about the characters involved and grow to love them even more. A brilliant story, which has just got me all hyped up for book number 5. Richard Hatch's book are the next best thing to a new series we could hope for. The Galactica universe is counting on him, and the fans to buy this book and make the powers that be see that we want a continuation of the Galactica universe on screen, with our favourite characters and not a re-imagining.

A large disappointment
Unfortunately, Rebellion, is not the book I had hoped it would be. The problem with a series of books having differing authors is that each author has their own style, and if you keep changing, then the series becomes disrupted. No where is this more apparent that in Rebellion. And unfortunately, it's not for the better either.

In Rebellion, we are treated to the Council being insane, yet again. I won't start to give away the plot, but there are some large holes in the logic and a lot of things that need explaining that aren't. The very end battle is also completely irrelevant and there is no reason for it to occur save to get the Galactica out of a bad situation, and even then, it's not actually explained why it's happening, especially as we've had no inkling of it from the other books. The Ur Cloud is also shot through with holes, and the way the Galactica gets out isn't thought though in my opinion.

Finally the writing style isn't much cope. After being treated like adults in the previous books, it seems like the current author thinks that the readers of this book are children.

Overall, a great disappointment.