, Giving Thanks to the Lords of Kobol viii ´There Are Those Who Believe…´ ix Part I Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets 1 1 How To Be Happy After the End of the World 3 Erik D. Baldwin 2 When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising 15 Robert Sharp 3 ´What a Strange Little Man´: Baltar the Tyrant? 29 J. Robert Loftis 4 The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet 40 Jason P. Blahuta Part II I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too? 53 5 ´And They Have a Plan´: Cylons as Persons 55 Robert Arp and Tracie Mahaffey 6 ´I´m Sharon, But I´m a Different Sharon´: The Identity of Cylons 64 Amy Kind 7 Embracing the ´Children of Humanity´: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War 75 Jerold J. Abrams 8 When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death 87 Brian Willems Part III Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons 99 9 The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few 101 Randall M. Jensen 10 Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do? 114 Andrew Terjesen 11 Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil 127 George A. Dunn 12 Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice 141 David Roden Part IV The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a (Divine?) Home 153 13 ´I Am an Instrument of God´: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning 155 Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines 14 God Against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies 169 Taneli Kukkonen 15 ´A Story that is Told Again, and Again, and Again´: Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom 181 David Kyle Johnson 16 Adama´s True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge 192 Fric J. Silverman Part V Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese: Different Worlds, Different Perspectives 203 17 Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance 205 James McRae 18 ´Let It Be Earth´: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope 218 Elizabeth F. Cooke 19 Is Starbuck a Woman? 230 Sarah Conly 20 Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation 241 David Koepsell There Are Only Twenty-Two Cylon Contributors 253 The Fleet´s Manifest 258 , This thought provoking book examines the philosophical issues arising from the re imagined Battlestar Galactica
television series, revealing how the ragtag fleet s outward journey to Earth is also an inward exploration for the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers.
