Question for Eric Paddon

peter noble · January 13th, 2006, 12:03 PM

Eric, is there any Galactica fan fiction that is about another surviving battlestar besides the Galactica and Pegasus?

Best,

Peter

WarMachine · January 13th, 2006, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by peter noble

Eric, is there any Galactica fan fiction that is about another surviving battlestar besides the Galactica and Pegasus?

Best,

Peter

Well, I'm not EP, but here's my entry:

http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums...ad.php?t=12123

Eric Paddon · January 13th, 2006, 03:34 PM

Hi Peter. Check this link on the main fanfic page, and there are a couple short stories called "Battlestar Andromeda" that go back a ways (about ten years old I think they are) that just based on a cursory look deal with another surviving battlestar".

http://www.galacticafanfic.com/stories/bsgfan.html

Sanna Guerin, co-moderator of the fanfic mailing list has a major, ambitious unfinished story called "Game Of Life" that also deals with other surviving ships (though not another battlestar) in which Ila is among the survivors and how they hook up with the Pegasus, post-Living Legend. We've been after her to finish that for years now, but she alas is more tied up in doing Stargate fiction these days.

I just got through listening to that first episode in the "Exodus" series and I'll be interested to know what gets built on with that reference to two other "surviving fleets."!

peter noble · January 13th, 2006, 04:18 PM

Thanks gentlemen, looks like I've got some reading to do!

I envy you, I have ideas but I'm not disciplined enough to get beyond the initial enthusiasm. Non-fiction comes slightly easier.

Best,

Peter

Titon · January 13th, 2006, 04:28 PM

I can't remember but i know it's in the fanfic series somewhere about the Millenia. That's where i got the story for many years ago in my feeble attempt at a short film series.

Eric Paddon · January 13th, 2006, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by peter noble

Thanks gentlemen, looks like I've got some reading to do!

I envy you, I have ideas but I'm not disciplined enough to get beyond the initial enthusiasm. Non-fiction comes slightly easier.

Best,

Peter

Thank you, Peter! Yes, I know all about how hard it can be to sustain an idea to completion in the actual writing. For all of my finished projects, there is a big trail of unfinished/abandoned projects residing on the hard drive as well! (including a follow-up to POTA crossover posted here).

I will say though, that if not for fanfic writing and the opportunity to just settle in my mind, visions of how the series might have turned out post-HOG, I don't think I ever would have been able to enjoy watching the series again.

Interesting that you say non-fiction comes easier, because having written both, I found that fanfic writing helped me a great deal when it came to writing graduate term papers and research essays, because it always taught me the need to think of transitioning from one point to another and thinking of how the concept flowed. I saw too many grad papers from my fellow students that would just cut and paste info together with no sense of flow, and if one tackles fiction writing, one is more mindful of applying that sense of flow and rhythm to a non-fiction project as well.

AJMarks · January 14th, 2006, 01:41 PM

You can also read Adam Stacey's "The Lost Battlestar"
Or AJ's Surprise or Battlestar Argo

Thses are a few other fanfiction that deal with other battlestars.
Enjoy.

Eric Paddon · January 14th, 2006, 02:32 PM

Adam was really the first fanfic writer I know of who attempted a "Second Season" project of continuous story arcs etc. and which we're doing now with our VS project, and he provided a good deal of inspiration for some of my other projects. The unfortunate thing is he pretty much abandoned the series back in 99, and all those synopses of forthcoming stories designed to finish the project are likely to remain just that for all time.