Battlestar Galactica (the original series) Fan Fiction

Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet on a lonely quest — for a shining planet known as Earth.
Jolly Boomer Sheba Adama Athena Apollo Cassie Starbuck
Starbuck	Universal Studios and/or Glen Larson owns them; I don't. No copyright infringement intended; this is purely for entertainment. My fiction is often slash (loving homosexual relationships). Please just don't read it if that offends you, or if you're not old enough where you live. As far as I'm concerned Galactica 1980 never happened. It wasn't even a bad dream. It just never happened at all... (and let's not even think about the new thing) Generic Warnings: Angst. H/C. Drinking and smoking and occasional violence (hey, they're at war!) Sex (slash and het), but not usually graphic. NC17 at most and that not often Look here for Colonial Terminology Look here for some more pictures (including battlestars, Zac, Bojay, Boomer, Deitra, Giles, Tigh, the bridge, Cylons, and [of course] Starbuck).		Omega
Athena			Apollo and Starbuck
Boxey and Apollo	Adama Starbuck Apollo & Tigh	Bojay	Cassie and Athena

Caveat lectoron: This show made up more terminology than anything I can think of. Not merely time and other measurements, but all sorts of words and phrases. The writers also apparently didn't have (or didn't refer to it if they had it) a "bible", so inconsistencies are rife. But I feel compelled to use them because, well, I am writing "Battlestar Galactica" fanfiction, not "Cute Guys in Space". If you're not familiar with the terms, or if you want a refresher, or you'd like to see how I define things like "sectare", or you run across something I made up by analogy with canon, don't despair. Just look here: Colonial Terminology

I don't call it "utterly different" for nothing... I've been accused of putting the "wrong" people together and "making us love it". Sometimes, knowing too much can spoil the story, but I realize that many people want to know the pairings and such. So, if you want detailed warnings, spoilers, pairings, etc, the Fic Warnings Page has it all

And look here for the cast list and pictures of everyone (pretty much) featured in the fics, with who they are spelled out for you.

List of fiction:

Note: Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, all of these are independent (and often therefore contradictory) stories...
Note on Ratings: stories rated bare R or NC17 have sex, graphic for NC17. Other things (such as violence) are noted if present.
Fiction is listed by length - and the two cycles are listed separately, too, so a few of them are listed twice. Generally speaking, short stories are under 20,000 words in length, novellas between 20,000 and 50,000 words, and novels above 50,000. I have a lot under 10,000 and one that's 18,000, so I've put it under novellas, and I've separated those under 2,000 words into a category I call vignette.

• Vignette
  • The Adjective List, or, The Courtship of Boxey's Father - Boxey decides to fix his dad up
    PG - 14kb / 1,885 words
  • ...And A Time For Sleep - Apollo watches Starbuck sleep, and remembers
    PG - 12kb /1,755 words
  • And The Stars That Shine Above - Apollo and Athena have a heart-to-heart
    PG - 13kb /1,647 words
  • Later - One night's indiscretion haunts Apollo and Starbuck for years
    PG13 - 13kb / 1,721 words
  • Met By Moonlight - Several years before the Destruction, Lieutenant Apollo gets a long furlon on an empty beach
    PG - 13kb / 1,792 words
  • The Silent Stars Look Down - Cassie's middle-of-the-night reflections on an eventful evening
    PG - 11kb /1,567 words
  • You Never Do Know - Sheba finds true love where she least expects it
    PG13 - 6kb / 571 words
• Short Stories
  • Amid the Thorns - After Iblis is vanquished, Starbuck remembers his first love
    PG13 - 35kb / 5,747 words
  • And So It Shall Be - Starbuck comes back from a suicide mission to discover who's been waiting for him
    PG - 17kb / 2,554 words
  • Any Cause or Just Impediment - Can one wedding breed another? With Giles and Boomer as midwives, look out!
    PG - 22kb / 3,167 words
  • Athena's Wedding - Apollo drives Starbuck into Athena's arms... and regrets it
    PG - 17kb / 2,539 words
  • Bedtime Story - A bedtime story, about two Heroes, once upon a time, three kingdoms over...
    PG - 34kb / 5,544 words
  • Bending Twigs - A companion (an elaboration/semi-prequel) to "Too Long Nights" - one defining day in the relationship of Boomer, Apollo, and Starbuck, during their first year at the academy (can be read as a stand-alone piece)
    PG13 (violence, referenced nonconsensual sex, drug use) - 29kb /4,630 words
  • Bitter Dance (Dance Sequence 1) - one winter night: Cadet Apollo's jealousy gets the better of him
    NC17 (drinking, violence, assault) - 30 kb / 4,470 words
  • Company (with Sithkitten) - Cassie and Athena get dumped by Starbuck at the same time and, well, misery loves company
    NC17 (angst, drinking, smoking, gambling... all the good stuff. plus sex) - 22kb / 3,215 words
  • Dark Enough - Starbuck and Cassie's engagement makes no one happy
    PG - 52kb / 8,722 words
  • Dear Apollo - written for an ad slogan challenge: "I saw Starbuck and I thought of you"
    PG - 20kb /3,316 words
  • Doing the Job - An emergency rescue technician responds to the bombing of Umbra [my tribute to the firefighters and EMTs of New York]
    PG - 17kb / 2,337 words
  • Done With Dancing (Dance Sequence 2)- Apollo at last sees things as they are, or at least as they might be
    NC17 - 20 kb / 2,747 words
  • Don't Tell Your Wish - Starbuck's birthday wish comes true... or does it?
    PG - 19kb / 2,700 words
  • Festival of Names - On Boxey's naming day, Apollo remembers Zac's, and the way his and Starbuck's relationship changed, maybe forever.
    PG - 43kb / 6.955 words
  • Happy Birthday, Boomer - Boomer has an unusual request on his birthday
    PG13 - 15kb / 2,018 words
  • I'll Dance At Your Wedding (Dance Sequence 5) - The Happy Ending at last
    PG - 19 kb / 2,713 words
  • In the Darkness - A companion to "Hidden Currents" - The Destruction took more than the Colonies; will it take Boomer down, too?
    NC-17 - 45kb /8,077 words
  • Instead - Starbuck dies to save Apollo... or did he?
    NC17 - 25kb / 3,617 words - Death (kind of)
  • Friends and Lovers - A tangled web of relationships unravels itself
    R - 38kb / 5,873 words
  • Let's Face the Music and Dance (Dance Sequence 6) - the honeymoon
    NC17 - 47kb / 7,322 words
  • Luminous - written for an ad slogan challenge: "Maybe she's born with it, Maybe it's Bojay"
    R - 58kb /9,873 words
  • Meant To Be - Destiny picks a surprising avatar: Sheba
    R - 34kb /5,331 words
  • Remembrance Day - Apollo picks the worst possible day for a romantic dinner with Sheba
    PG - 13kb / 5,198 words rewritten Dec 2011)
  • Stolen - er, um. This is easily the smuttiest piece I've ever written, and there's not a lot of plot (which is not to say none... ah, heck, who'm I trying to kid? It's a PWP), but if you like this sort of thing, it's the sort of thing you'll like... Apollo tries an old trick on a new target and is surprised and undone
    NC17 - 17kb / 2,493 words
  • The Thing About Starbuck - Apollo has a epiphany
    PG - 14kb / 2,077 words
  • Zac's Birthday - After the Destruction, Zac's birthday comes around, and he's remembered.
    PG - 13kb /2,176 words (very sad)
• Novellas
  • Brand New Dance (Dance Sequence 3) - Apollo learns that happy endings aren't that easy to come by, old habits don't die easily, and good things must sometimes be fought for
    NC17 - 165 kb / 25,183 words (four files)
  • Hidden Currents - When Giles and Boomer begin an affair, Giles's long-buried past begins to emerge
    R (referenced past nonconsensual sex) - 154kb / 25,394 words(three files)
  • Ties of Kinship - Starbuck's act of friendship, and Apollo's reaction, could tear the battlestar apart.
    NC17 (Angst, drinking, a little violence, infidelity) - 234kb / 36,175 words (five files)
    appeared, in very slightly altered form, in the zine "Southern Hospitality"
  • Too Long Nights - When Apollo realizes he loves Starbuck, is it too late to overcome their past?
    R (referenced past nonconsensual sex and drug use; present consensual) - 114kb / 18,022 words (three files)
  • Warlord - The Galactica retrieved 67 Viper pilots after Cimtar. What if Starbuck, Boomer, and others hadn't been among them?
    PG13 - 289kb / 45, 419 words (five files) - (Alternate Universe)
• Novels
  • All Mixed Up After the Pegasus is lost, even the ones with someone aren't where they want to be...
    R - 660kb /109,981 words (twelve files)(Ch. 4 revised 11 June 2007)
  • Dancing Lessons From God (Dance Sequence 4) - the rest of the secton: Fate (or at least Adama) strikes back
    R (violence, death) - 480 kb / 73,917 words (ten files)
  • The Lieutenant's Daughter - Starbuck's life is profoundly changed by a dying woman and a baby
    PG13 (implied sex (consensual and nonconsensual), violence, death - 405kb / 63,169 words (eight files)
  • Out of the Past - Starbuck's past reaches into the present to threaten his future
    NC17 (death, violence, sex) - 493 kb / 75,946 words (ten files)
• Cycles and Sequences
  • Hidden Currents - When Giles and Boomer begin an affair, Giles's long-buried past begins to emerge
    R (referenced past nonconsensual sex) - 154kb / 25,394 words(three files)
    • In the Darkness - A companion to "Hidden Currents" - The Destruction took more than the Colonies; will it take Boomer down, too?
      NC-17 - 45kb / 8077 words
  • Hang the Night with Stars: three connected pieces that may be read alone or together; all are angsty but the third much less so
    • The Silent Stars Look Down - Cassie's middle-of-the-night reflections on an eventful evening
      PG - 11kb /1567 words
    • And The Stars That Shine Above - Apollo and Athena have a heart-to-heart
      PG - 13kb / 1647 words
    • Dark Enough - Starbuck and Cassie's engagement makes no one happy
      PG - 52kb / 8722 words
  • The "Dance" Sequence: (aka The Thing That Wouldn't Die...)
    • Bitter Dance - one winter night: Cadet Apollo's jealousy gets the better of him
      NC17 (drinking, violence, assault) - 30 kb / 4,470 words
    • Done With Dancing - a dozen yahrens later: Apollo at last sees things as they are, or at least as they might be
      NC17 - 20 kb / 2,747 words
    • Brand New Dance - the next day: Apollo learns that happy endings aren't that easy to come by, old habits don't die easily, and good things must sometimes be fought for
      NC17 - 165 kb / 25,183 words (four files)
    • Dancing Lessons From God - the rest of the secton: Fate (or at least Adama) strikes back
      R (violence, death) - 480 kb / 73,917 words (ten files)
    • I'll Dance At Your Wedding - two days later: The Happy Ending at last
      PG - 19 kb / 2,713 words
    • Let's Face the Music and Dance - the next day: the honeymoon
      NC17 - 47kb / 7,322 words
    • Dancing in the Dark - and beyond: and they lived happily ever after. If you don't push the meaning of "happily" too hard.
      R most likely - multiple files - Coming Soon
• Works in Progress
  • Gold - Cain's cult of personality isn't easy to defeat, even after he's gone, but Starbuck means to try if it costs him everything else
    R - 479 kb / 90,055 words so far - Updated 7 April 2013
• Coming Sooner or Later
  • In Ila's Garden - Just what did Adama's wife think about things?
  • Kith Into Kin - A sequel to "Ties of Kinship"
  • Prevailing Winds - A companion (an elaboration/semi-sequel) to "Too Long Nights" - Boomer and Starbuck set things straight
• Collaborations with Sithkitten
  • Company - Cassie and Athena get dumped by Starbuck at the same time and, well, misery loves company
    NC17 (angst, drinking, smoking, gambling... all the good stuff. plus sex) - 22kb / 3215 words