Eureka Giveaway! Who Wants Battlestar Season 2?

To celebrate the launch of their new show Eureka - review here - the SciFi Channel has offered up a big ol' prize pack to Twitch readers that includes a Sci Fi messenger bag, Triangle DVD, Ghost Hunters DVD and season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. That Battlestar set alone makes this one healthy prize offering and so, accordingly, I've made this one of our more difficult contests.

The Eureka premiere prominently features pattern recognition and so I've opted to do a pattern recognition test of our own. Here's how it works. I've taken the opening paragraph of a famous sci-fi or fantasy novel that has a direct tie to the SciFi Channel (i.e. they have either produced or aired a film or television series based on this work) and run it through the magically wondrous Babelfish. Several times. This great work has just been unceremoniously auto-translated between English and French, German, Russian, Japanese and Greek - in that order - and subsequently garbled beyond recognition. To have a shot at the prize pack you must correctly identify the work cited. Got it? Here it is, with place names blanked out to keep it from being too easy:

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This contest is open to US residents only, send your entries here by July 18th for your shot at the prize.