I’ve got an iPod and I know how to use it, okay?
I’m a huge Battlestar Galactica fan (yes, I even watched TOS back in the day). The problem is, I don’t get TV via rabbit ears or cable, so I have to wait for it to come out on DVD. In the interim, I download the Galactica Watercooler podcasts where Audra, Sean and Chuck sit around a mike having real conversations about the episodes. The only way it could be better is if I was in the room, too.
As the cognoscenti are already aware, it is going to be forEVER until we get the last half of the last season. So Audra, Sean and Chuck are keeping hope alive by talking ’bout other stuff. Recently, they’ve been talking about Star Wars, all six of the films, in a manner that gives one to believe that they were eyewitnesses to the fall of the Republic and are personal friends of Ani. These guys are smart and funny and perceptive, and it doesn’t hurt that they’re a generation younger than me, which means they’ve read all the books, played all the games and know what Expanded Universe means. And that there is one. And a big shout out to the gang for in Podcast#110 finally making me understand why Boba Fett is so cool.
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I’m glad you now understand why Fett was cool. Lucas never did.
I don’t know if you follow the GWC forum at all, but we have a book club as well. Which of your novels would you recommend as a candidate?
Are you kidding me? You don’t want to bother with one of my books, you’re reading the good stuff (everybody, go here to see the good stuff: http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25). Besides, my three little sf novels are long out of print.
About B. Fett–I always thought he was cool, especially when he gives that little nod to Leia-as-bounty-hunter in the beginning of Jedi, right after she fakes out Jabba with the thermal detonator. Oh yeahhhhhh.
Ah ! BOOKS ! Found a new author - - - Daniel Abraham - fantasy ala Ursala Le Guin’s Left Hand Of Darkness . Always thought G. Lucas went in the wrong direction . Next trilo should have been post EMPIRE with an older Leia and Han and a next generation . No way to rehabilitate Darth Vader . He killed a planet fullof people !
Reprint! Reprint! Reprint!
And, Kate rocks! Dana may not want to say anything, but I’d recommend Breakup…as long as you don’t mind starting into the series.
I wish! I wish! I wish!
I’ll have to check the movie out. In the early 80’s I was in High School, learning to speak English. When I came home I plopped down and turned on the TV, just decompressing. When my mom questioned my choices, I informed her that watching English-language programs will speed up my progress. I learned tons from Battlestar Galactica, Scooby Doo, and the *original* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Go heroes on a half-shell, YEAH!)
Galactica rocks. Some of those plots were so good I still remember them.
Kate P.
Hi Dana,
Any news on the cover art for Whisper to the Blood?
Hope all is well.
You must be psychic, I just asked my publisher that. Five days ago they replied in part, “The art department is still working on it, and we expect to have something soon.” There is a ‘place holder’ illustration in the Minotaur Winter catalogue that won’t be the final art. They’ll send me a .jpg and I’ll post it here the minute I get it, I promise!
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