I've actually never read any of the B5 books. I don't think there were a lot of them, and I'm certain they are expensive or hard to find now.
Babylon 5 still a great show, but cant stand Susan Ivanova in first season
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I've actually never read any of the B5 books. I don't think there were a lot of them, and I'm certain they are expensive or hard to find now.
Believe me, I know the feeling. Burnout's a bitch...
If you can get hold of them, the three trilogies - Centauri (Legions of Fire), Techno-mage (The Passing of the Techno-mages) and Telepath (Psi Corps) - are all worth reading. Two standalones are also worth reading - To Dream in the City of Sorrows and The Shadow Within. All are considered canon to a large extent. I bought my copies on eBay when their price seemed to be at a minimum. I don't know what they go for nowadays.
A few months ago, were finding B5 novels for 8 bucks.
Now it's $400 for the hard back of the trilogy.
Earth Gov are the Nazis, and the Psi Corps are the Jewish Resistance, worried about death camps.
Bester is a little extreme, but there's a lot on the line, and he does not think mundanes are real people.
A few murders here and there is cute, compared to the war they had planned to wrestle control of Earth from the shaved monkeys running it into the ground.
Lyta upset their apple-cart, and started the war before they were ready.
There were also comics, and most of them are canon, though "Laser-Mirror-Starweb" is worth skipping. I hope that if TRH does well and gets the merchandise train rolling, it might merit some new editions, or at the very least, negotiating the eBook rights with the creators so they can be rereleased that way.
I see there's a new animated "movie" of Babylon 5. Didn't Sheridan in the original show die or retire or something?
It's set before Sheridan goes beyond the Rim. I'd argue it's perhaps not even in the same timeline as the original series as JMS seem to have hitched himself to the Viele-Welten-Theorie Musikantenwagen.