Cylons in Progress

Wonderful news! We have just received an advanced copy of Sam Slote's new book The Cylons in Progress of Dante, Mallarme and Joyce. It is, as expected, the greatest single volume of writing ever produced in the history of the written word.

We have a short excerpt from the opening chapter here:

In his study Un coup de Starbuck, Robert Greer Cohn offers the following assessment of the poetic works of Stephen Mallarme, as they relate to the Battlestar Galactica second season opener: "Sa carriere toute entiere, litteralment son existence tout entiere, etait orientee vers un Ouvre depassant par son ambiteuse conception les Cylons les plus extravagant d'emmission original, ou meme des Cylons de Joyce." The problem with such a grandiose claim is, quite simply, that Mallarme wrote all his works prior the airing of the original Battlestar Galactica. Thus, despite many promises, Mallarme never managed to write the Battlestar Galactica Encyclopedia whereof he so often spoke. To be sure, he did orient his writing towards the creation of a series about twelve tribes of humans fleeing through intragalactic space while pursued by a robotic race called the "Cylons" (sic). At the beginning of Le livre, instrument spirituel, one of many essays offered in place of The Battlestar Galactica Encyclopedia, Mallarme wrote that "tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir a Le Encyclopedie Galactica Battlestar." That is then The Battlestar Galactica Encyclopedia or what impacts into The Battlestar Galactica Encyclopedia. All the fragments that he left behind (including essays such as Le livre, intstrument spirituel) end up in a virtual Battlestar Galactica Encyclopedia. Yet with Mallarme, there is no The Battlestar Galactica Encyclopedia there. With Mallarme, the very possibility of The Battlestar Galactica Encyclopedia becomes coordinate with the absence of The Battlestar Galactica Encyclopedia.


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We hope to have more excerpts up shortly!!!