In 1978, Battlestar Galactica appeared, an SF television series starring Lorne Greene of Bonanza fame and a cast of young actors. Inspired by Star Trek and Star Wars, the original series, though it lasted only a single season, is fondly remembered. Now Battlestar Galactica has been resurrected in spectacular fashion by Ronald Moore, for many years a successful writer and director of Star Trek episodes. With sharply written, literate scripts and a cast of fine actors led by Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, the reborn Battlestar Galactica has been a huge success, first as a miniseries, and now as a continuing series on the Sci Fi Channel. Tor Books is proud to publish a novel based on the exciting, suspenseful miniseries. Humanity created the robotic Cylons to help itself, but the Cylons turned on their makers and fought a terrible war until the armistice. Forty years later, the Cylons are . . . different. Now they look and act human. Some of them even think they are human. When the Cylons attack the twelve human worlds, only a single ship survives the onslaught: the oldest ship in the fleet, Battlestar Galactica. Led by Commander Adama, President Laura Roslin, and pilots like the fiercely independent Starbuck and Lee Adama, the refugees fight for the survival of humanity in a riveting epic of interstellar adventure.