Battlestar Galactica (1978)

This article is about the 1978 show. For the 2003 miniseries and 2004-2009 television series, see Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Fandom
Name:	Battlestar Galactica
Abbreviation(s):	BSG (original)
Creator:	Glen A. Larson
Date(s):	1978-1979
Medium:	Television
Country of Origin:	United States
External Links:	wikipedia page; slash archive; genfic LJ comm
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Show overview

Starbuck, Apollo and Adama on the cover of the zine, Purple and Orange?

Battlestar Galactica came out in 1978, the year after Star Wars, produced by people who had worked for Lucasfilm. Fan anticipation was high, and the pilot got high ratings. The main two characters, Captain Apollo and Lt. Starbuck, were two very pretty men who fought side by side, and obviously cared a lot about each other. Everything seemed primed for a new fandom, and a new slash fandom.

Sadly, the writing wasn't very good, the effects were ahead of their time (and therefore very expensive) and the ratings steadily fell. There were only seventeen episodes of the first series, and another ten (even lower rated) episodes of the ill-fated reunion show in 1980.

Although fiction, and eventually slash fiction, appeared in both BSG and multimedia zines at the time, it never became a major fandom.

Richard Hatch remained a big fan of the concept, and was a willing guest at media cons trying to drum up interest in another reunion/remix/restart of the show.

Fanfic

There is much fanfic here.

In 2008, a group of fans created a virtual season: Virtual Second Season and Virtual Third Season.

Archives

• By Your Command houses 62 stories by 14 authors, mostly slash.
• Galactica Fan Fic Archives houses stories dating back to the mid 1990s and is still being currently updated.

Zinefic online

Clean Slate Press was a BSG publisher during the 1980s and '90s. In 2002, a fan who noticed that the press had stopped publishing got permission to post several of them to his own website, collected on a page called Free Battlestar Galactica Fan Fiction Novels (includes several standalone short stories as well as the novels and connected short-story collection below).

• The Race for Earth by Sharon Monroe and Gordon Smuder, a BSG gen novel.
• Alternate Conspiracy by Sharon Monroe, a gen novel.
• The Pegasus Chronicles (gen novels)
  • The Battle Of Molecay by Lee Gaul and Sharon Monroe
  • Cain's Command by Lee Gaul and Sharon Monroe
  • Second Coming by Lee Gaul and Sharon Monroe
  • Joint Maneuvers by Lee Gaul and Sharon Monroe
• Galactica History: From Kobol To The Colonies by Sharon Monroe, a collection of short stories about the pre-series history of the BSG universe.
• Survive The Alliance by Sharon Monroe and J.D. Rich, a crossover BSG novel with V, The A-Team, Airwolf, Knight Rider, and others.

Zines

• Ad Astra
• The Adama Journal: 1, 2, 5&6, 7, 8, 9/10, 11/12, 13
• Airwaves Battlestar Galactica Special
• Alternate Conspiracy - Sharon Monroe (1987), gen, Clean Slate Press
• ANKH (by J.R. Janoski)
• Anomaly: the magazine of Battlestar Galactica: issue 1 it ran for 20 issues and ended in 1993. WayBack link to editor's Geocities website
• Anomaly Battlestar Galactica Concordance
• Apollo's Odyssey (gen)
• Babblestar Blastica, a gen parody by Sharon Monroe written in script format.
• The Battlestar Galactica Files: Cylon Attack (by D. Murry)
• The Battlestar Review: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 to 15
• Blue One (gen)
• Blue Squadron Journal: 1, 2
• Book of the Word, newsletter
• By the Lords of Kobol! (adult gen) Short stories by Fran S..
• Change of Command
• Colonial Forum
• Colonial Warriors Technical Manual
• The Colonials: issue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Cosmic Communications, newsletter
• Cry Sanctuary
• Erato
• Felgercarb: issue 2, 3, 4/5, 6, 7, 8/9 (multimedia)
• Fire In His Soul, a gen novella by Sharon Monroe. Cover art by Barbara Fister-Liltz
• Frak (issue 3 contains Battlestar Galactica only, other issues have some stories as well)
• Galactica: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Pandora Publications), 12 to 26 (Clean Slate Press)
• Galactica 1988: Ten Years Later
• Galactica Gazette
• The Galactica Journals: Vol. 1, No. 1
• Galactica History: From Kobol to the Colonies (by Sharon Monroe)
• Galactica Stuff: A Colonial's Guide To The Galaxy: first edition, second edition (by Sharon Monroe)
• Galacticamania
• The Galactican
• Ghosts in the Machine
• The HomLegends from the Rising Starecoming, a gen novel by Fran S.. Cover art by Matt Busch.
• The Hunt I (by Erik Sprowls)
• In the Shadows, a gen novel by Lisa Zaza
• Journals of Kobol
• The Kobol Chronicles: vol. 1, #2
• Last of the Pirate Queens
• Legends from the Rising Star: a Battlestar Galactica collection
• The Lords of Kobol, a gen crossover novel with Stargate SG-1, written by Sheila Paulson.
• Loyalty Check, a gen novel by Fran S. Cover art by Matt Busch. Sequel to "Tally of the Souls".
• Melas (by J.A. Mortimore)
• Mind in the Shadows, a gen novella by Julia E.. Cover art by Marj Ihssen.
• Misfit File
• Murmurs, a gen novel by Honore B., with illustrations by Gennie Summers and Mel White, and cover art by Karen River.
• The Pegasus Chronicles (gen novels)
  • The Battle of Molukai by Lee Gaul and Sharon Monroe
  • Cain's Command by Lee Gaul and Sharon Monroe
  • Second Coming by Lee Gaul and Sharon Monroe
  • Joint Maneuvers by Lee Gaul and Sharon Monroe
• The Plot
• Purple and Orange? : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 20
• Pyramids: 1
• The Race for Earth (by Sharon Monroe)
• Rainbows Always End
• Red Squadron Dispatches, newsletter
• Rising Star
• Saga of a Star World: 4
• Sins of the Fathers
• The Star Kobol Journals: #1, #2
• Song of Caprica: 1, 2, 3, 4
• Star Searches: March 1983, Sept 1983, March 1984
• Streets and Stars (also Streets of San Francisco)
• Survive the Alliance (by Sharon Monroe)
• Tales of the Galactica: 2, 11/12
• Tally of the Souls, by Fran S. Prequel to "Loyalty Check".
• The Thirteenth Tribe Newsletter: 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 33 to 40, 56 to 66, 69, 70, 71
• Thicker Than Blood
• To Be Reborn
• Tribal Tales
• Two from Thirteen: X2, X4, X5
• Viper Visions
• Visions of the Galactica, gen anthologies edited by Rick Perriguey. This ran to eight issues between 1989 and 1999.
• Warriors' Luck, a gen novel by Linda Ruth P., illustrated by Gennie Summers, Mel White, and Mea Culpa. Cover art by Karen River.
• We Know Who We Are, a gen novella by Charles O. Cover art by Gordon Smuder.
• Well Met in Space and Time, a Doctor Who/Battlestar Galactica gen crossover novel in three parts, by M.D. Bloemker and Mary A. Fall.
• Who Lives By the Sword

Fan Art

The Battlestar Galactica Archive hosts a small collection of art here.

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  cover of Survive the Alliance

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  cover of Purple & Orange #5

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  cover of Murmurs (Battlestar Galactica zine)

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  cover of Fantasy Flight

Resources

• The Battlestar Galactica Concordance, a listing/description/summary of every character, place, etc. in the original Battlestar Galactica. (This specifically does not include Galactica 1980, although the overall site does include reviews of the 2003 "revival" miniseries.)
• SHEBA'S GALAXY - The Ultimate Battlestar Galactica Information Site (convention reviews, fan fiction, stills, episode guides and a general overview of the fandom history)
• Galactica Fan collecting fan fiction, and other fandom news since 1995, also home of the Virtual Seasons.
• Free Battlestar Galactica Fan Fiction Novels offering fan fiction originally published by Clean Slate Press downloadable as epub files which can be viewed on a computer as well as most ereaders.