Greetings from Earth (Book)

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Greetings from Earth A book of the Berkley Books line
Book No.	8
Author(s)	Ron Goulart
Adaptation of	Greetings from Earth
No. of Pages	{{{pages}}}
Published	June 1983
ISBN	0425060470
Chronology
Previous		Next
War of the Gods	Greetings from Earth	Experiment in Terra
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Overview

The novel adds several new scenes and even a few new characters to the story.

Summary

• There is a subplot involving Jolly hooking up with a woman named Zixi.

• The class that Athena conducts is called Applied Science.

• Boxey says in class that Dr. Wilker might make a mistake and cause the people to die. Athena later admonishes Apollo for talking negatively about Wilker in front of Boxey.

• Adama explains to Boxey in his quarters why Starbuck and Apollo took the shuttle away.

• Apollo sends a communication to Galactica soon after arriving on Paradeen.

• Sarah sets out at night down the road (to saboutage the ships). Hector confronts her, but she insists on continuing.

• Councilman Geller meets with Adama about the ships on Paradeen. They both become concerned when they can no longer communicate with them.

• The next morning, Apollo does some exploring in the woods. He is approached by a gaunt old man named Kertiz the Hermit who has low-level telekinetic powers. Kertiz tells Apollo that leaving the planet won't be as easy as he thinks, and then walks off.

• Apollo is headed towards the vipers to check them out when a man named Sut Meadows tells him they've been smashed. The shuttle is also badly damaged.

• Hector's hovercraft is able to fly high in the air. At the city, Starbuck threatens to jump out if Hector won't lower the ship to the ground.

• Apollo confronts the Morelands on their property, but they deny they had anything to do with wrecking the ships.

• In the city, Starbuck is captured by a gang. He tells them he can get them guns. One of the women, a red-head named Queenie, takes him to find the weaponry. She tells him she saw a blonde woman wrecking the ships, and Starbuck realizes it must be Sarah. Queenie has psi-powers and knows that Starbuck was lying about the guns, but she wants to help him. They both go to a library looking for records. A rival gang appears called the Commandoes. They are about to be killed when Apollo arrives.

• Kurtiz the Hermit saves one of the children, Cindy, from an Enforcer.

• Starbuck and Apollo disguise themselves as Enforcers when they capture Leiter and his men.

• Sarah apologizes to Apollo for wrecking the ships.

• Queenie joins the Fleet

Notes

• Excerpts taken from Sheba's Galaxy. For the full review go to here.

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another