Battlestar Galactica Paradis by Richard Hatch & Brad Linaweaver

Unfortunately it has very small type, and the publisher seems to have dropped off the web. Not really very well written, it makes no real effort to explain anything from the book that apparently precedes it. The only reasons I knew there was another book before it were 1) baffling references to characters/planets I’d never heard of before, 2) unexplained changes in the characters - some dead and some promoted, and 3) the ad in the back of the book for another title by Richard Hatch and Alan Rodgers, though it didn’t say anything about the sequence of the books. The story is very political, overall, and not very character-oriented; it seems male authors tend to focus on action and strategy to the exclusion of character motivation, even if the author in question started out as an actor. The dialogue tends to be a bit stilted, and while it could be treated as a continuation of the original series, the popularity of the new, completely revamped series makes it unlikely the novel will catch on.