"Meet Ethan Marshall. He’s twelve years old, but life has made him feel much smaller. In the halls of his school, he’s the target of bullies. At home, he faces a different kind of torment—his father. Vernon Marshall, a man whose temper is as heavy as his hand, rules their household like a dictator, ensuring Ethan lives in constant fear. For Ethan, the only escape is his imagination, where he can flee from the cruelty and disappointment of his everyday life.

Ethan doesn’t belong to this world. He belongs to a universe far, far away—a place of space battles, heroic warriors, and epic quests. In the worlds of his favorite space opera, he finds solace, where brave men and women fight for freedom among the stars. But his favorite of all? Battlestar Galactica. In the Galactica's crew, Ethan sees the protectors and friends he’s never had in his real life. In a universe filled with Cylons and peril, there are always heroes willing to fight.

But heroes don’t exist in the real world... or do they? Ethan is about to discover that sometimes, even the most unlikely stories hold the power to change everything. He’s about to find a friend and savior from the very series that has been his refuge—a journey that will take him beyond his dreams and into something far stranger. Because the battle for Ethan’s soul is about to be fought in a place where reality twists, and the impossible becomes possible.

Ethan Marshall is about to step into... the Twilight Zone."

A CSI Miami/Battlestar Galactica(original)/Ian Watson x-over fanfic.

Contains Eric Delko (CSI Miami)

The Galactica(as a Russian spaceship from the year 2064)

In 1880 the Russian/Spanish author Eric Delko undertakes a historic journey across Siberia to the penal colony on Sakhalin Island. 100 years later, in an isolated artist's retreat, a Soviet film unit prepares to commemorate his journey by using a technique that will cause their chosen actor to not only play the role of the playwright but to believe that he is Delko himself.

But the situations the actor Arthur acts out diverge wildly from known biographical facts when Delko gets the word of an explosion in the Tunguska region of Siberia. Yet the real Tunguska explosion occurred in 1908 - so how could Delko have possibly heard of it in 1880?