| Irish Marine | 17 Apr 2011 4:50 a.m. PST |
Has anyone read them? I loved the TV series was crushed when they shut it down and I have the DVDs but never read the books. |
| Cacique Caribe | 17 Apr 2011 5:14 a.m. PST |
Novels? I must check them out then. Thanks, Dan |
| ajbartman | 17 Apr 2011 5:24 a.m. PST |
I agree, I keep hoping to see a new series. I have also been looking for the box set. |
| Cacique Caribe | 17 Apr 2011 5:28 a.m. PST |
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| Tgunner | 17 Apr 2011 5:45 a.m. PST |
There are two books in regular sci-fi from Peter Telp and several youth fiction books put out by various authors. The Telp books are okay- You have the novel based on the pilot episode and a different novel called "Demolition Winter". They are okay, but not excellent books. They do give you some new insights into the universe of S:AAB, but not much else. The youth novels are pretty short affairs- a bit more than 100 pages and cover a specific episode in the series. They aren't as… intense(?) as the actual episode. Plus some of the vocabulary used shows the author's lack of even basic military knowledge. They were written for middle school and lower high-school kids. I've read a couple and honestly I say stick with the TV episodes. It would be great, one day, to see an author who's really decent take over the line. I wouldn't hold my breath though. S:AAB is pretty dead now as an IP. But who knows, 10 years ago I thought the same about Battlestar Galactica! |
| Irish Marine | 17 Apr 2011 5:47 a.m. PST |
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| Tgunner | 17 Apr 2011 5:57 a.m. PST |
Oh, here are a few links if you want to check out the existing books for yourself: Demolition Winter by Peter Telp
link Here's an Amazon link to the DVDs. You can find them rather easily on ebay too: link I have no idea what this book is- maybe a youth info book???
Pretty expensive just to see what it is: link The Pilot Episode as a Youth Novel:
link "Dark Side of the Sun" Youth Novel:
link "The Enemy" Youth Novel:
link A closer look will probably turn up one more. There was also a short lived comic book series out too that had maybe (?) 5 or so books. I lost mine ages ago so I'm kind of hazy on the details. Hope that helps. |
| Battle Works Studios | 17 Apr 2011 5:58 a.m. PST |
A bit OT, but I've seen several attempts at doing spaceship minis based on the series over on the forums at Starship Combat News. I forget which company was doing them, but if you ask around over there they'll probably pipe up in short order. Or maybe you already knew, in which case never mind. :) |
| Irish Marine | 17 Apr 2011 6:40 a.m. PST |
Does anyone do any figures for SAAB? |
Stronty Girl  | 17 Apr 2011 8:28 a.m. PST |
I read the Demolition Winter one. It was okay, but its main focus was West, who wasn't my favorite character. Plus the bits about mountaineering had too much loving detail about climbing kit/techniques and not enough plot.  I've got one of the "youth" ones (Mutiny) but never read it, despite that being one of my favorite episodes. It's 102 pages of rather large font. Less a novel, more a short story… If you are brave you could go looking for SAAB fanfic on t'interweb. There is good stuff out there (my friend Rachael wrote some). But it is – as with all fanfic – surrounded by:
a) utterly dreadful, semi-literate stuff
b) slash (from cutesy to hardcore)
c) and if you are really, really unlucky… utterly dreadful, semi-literate, cutesy slash… |
| Irish Marine | 17 Apr 2011 12:12 p.m. PST |
Do you have address for the fanfiction sites? |
| Stronty Girl | 20 Apr 2011 3:24 a.m. PST |
Rachael's stuff (and various other people's) is on this site: link |
| (Major Disaster) | 05 May 2011 9:55 p.m. PST |
@ Irish Marine, none officially, but Rebel Minis Earth Force Marines are dead-on S:AAB Marines in environmental suits |
