Water Bob
2016-05-13, 11:56 AM
As I was looking around Amazon, I stumbled upon a new book that has just been published.
I couldn't believe my eyes. Really? Based on the old TV series? I used to watch that as a kid.
Now, over thirty years later, a new novel has been written, based not on the original comic or any other source other than the old campy TV show.
BUCK ROGERS in the 25th Century in LO, THE RINGS OF SATURN by Andrew E. C. Gaska. (http://smile.amazon.com/Buck-Rogers-25th-Century-Draconian/dp/152371249X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463156893&sr=1-4&keywords=buck+rogers)
http://blamventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BUCK-rogers-cover.jpg
Looks to be the first of a trilogy. The description on Amazon says that it fills the gap between the first and second seasons.
To refresh your memory, the show only ran two seasons. The pilot was actually pretty good, for the day, and it aired, along with the pilot for Battlestar Galactica, as a full length movie in the movie theaters.
The Buck Rogers TV show--the first season--ran as a cheaper version of the pilot. But, the show was facing cancellation after the first season--and that might not have been due to rating. Maybe the show just cost too much. That's what happen to Battlestar Galactica. BG was one of the network's number one shows, but it cost so much to make each episode that the execs chose to revamp the show to a much more cost efficient setting. Thus, we got the horrible Battlestar Galactica 1980.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century underwent a similar reconfiguration after the first season. No longer based on earth, Buck & Co. took off in a large space ship to visit a new world each week, like Star Trek or Battlestar.
Well, this new trilogy is supposed to tie up plots from the first season and make a less abrupt translation to the new format.
Hmm. I'm thinking about picking this thing up. There's only seven reviews so far, but they're all 5-stars.
And...I am a bit nostalgic about the show. Though it was never my favorite, I did, back then, read the movie novelization, see the original movie several times, and tried to catch every episode I could (even when I thought they were cheezy back then).
Maybe the books....good!
I couldn't believe my eyes. Really? Based on the old TV series? I used to watch that as a kid.
Now, over thirty years later, a new novel has been written, based not on the original comic or any other source other than the old campy TV show.
BUCK ROGERS in the 25th Century in LO, THE RINGS OF SATURN by Andrew E. C. Gaska. (http://smile.amazon.com/Buck-Rogers-25th-Century-Draconian/dp/152371249X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463156893&sr=1-4&keywords=buck+rogers)
http://blamventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BUCK-rogers-cover.jpg
Looks to be the first of a trilogy. The description on Amazon says that it fills the gap between the first and second seasons.
To refresh your memory, the show only ran two seasons. The pilot was actually pretty good, for the day, and it aired, along with the pilot for Battlestar Galactica, as a full length movie in the movie theaters.
The Buck Rogers TV show--the first season--ran as a cheaper version of the pilot. But, the show was facing cancellation after the first season--and that might not have been due to rating. Maybe the show just cost too much. That's what happen to Battlestar Galactica. BG was one of the network's number one shows, but it cost so much to make each episode that the execs chose to revamp the show to a much more cost efficient setting. Thus, we got the horrible Battlestar Galactica 1980.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century underwent a similar reconfiguration after the first season. No longer based on earth, Buck & Co. took off in a large space ship to visit a new world each week, like Star Trek or Battlestar.
Well, this new trilogy is supposed to tie up plots from the first season and make a less abrupt translation to the new format.
Hmm. I'm thinking about picking this thing up. There's only seven reviews so far, but they're all 5-stars.
And...I am a bit nostalgic about the show. Though it was never my favorite, I did, back then, read the movie novelization, see the original movie several times, and tried to catch every episode I could (even when I thought they were cheezy back then).
Maybe the books....good!