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Title: Casting Shadows (Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages, Book 1) by Jeanne Cavelos ISBN: 0-345-42721-1 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Insanely Engrossing
Comment: Any fan of Babylon 5 MUST read this series. It ties up all (ok, most) loose-ends and mystery surrounding the Technomages. And anyone new to the series (poor deprived souls! Get caught up!) will love it too. HIGHLY addictive, engaging story lines that bring the characters flying off the page. Emotion is high, feelings are real and intense.
And Galen!... well, this is Galen at his most frustrating, endearing and far too fallible and human. The relationship between Galen and his mentor Elric is touching yet frustrating because of its restraint. And another example of masterful writing.
Read carefully, for Jeanne likes to foreshadow and hint at things to come with details.
Not merely episode tie-ins, this series incorporates scenes from episodes smoothly (Book 2, with "the Geometry of Shadows") while creating depth of character and personality for all characters the author creates with the stroke of her pen.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Late to the party, but glad I came!
Comment: I loved B5/Crusade when it was on, and taped every show. I didn't much care for the knockoff books, though, and so stopped after reading two.
Then I ran across this book, and this series, and realized what I had missed. Unlike the first efforts, this one has some input from JMS and not only follows, but expands the canon.
The technomages were deliberately kept indistinct in the two series. What were they? Where did they come from? Why did they exist? What happened to them? These were questions hinted at but never resolved on TV.
Then came these books. Much like the appendices on TLOTR, they reveal a great deal of information just hinted at before (like the answers to all the above questions). Unlike the appendices in TLOTR, they are fully-fleshed-out novels, though, with three dimensional charactors.
No one who liked the B5 series can rob themselves of the pleasure of seeing this story unfold in all its fascinating detail. Though the story starts slowly, building up the mystery as Galen slowly explores what the Technomage "Council" is hiding, the denouement is worth the wait. I was literally blown away by the implications it presented.
Best of all, the series is so well-written that even a non-B5 fan can get into it. Though it assumes a certain knowledge of the B5 universe (like the nature of the Shadows), all the links to the B5 story are explained well enough that as a stand alone series, it still works. If you have friends that still love trek and won't watch B5, then get them to read the books as an example of how deeply fascinating and conflicted this fictional universe can be.
Five thumbs up!
Rating: 5
Summary: Young Galen
Comment: Usually when I read television based books they come off as poorly characterized fanfiction but the opposite is true of this book. Galen's character was so on that I felt as if I was watching an episode of Crusade. Galen isn't the only character you'll find from the Babylon 5/Crusade universe; Morden, Kosh, Anna Sheridan, Isabelle, Elric, and Alwyn also appear. You don't have to be familiar with the B5/Crusade universe to enjoy this book though. This is one of the best science-fiction pieces I've ever read. It was especially interesting to learn about the order of the techno-mages and to see the start of the Shadow war from their perspective. The best part of this book though was Galen........ok I'm awfully biased because he was my favorite Crusade character but I don't care.
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Title: The Long Night of Centauri Prime (Babylon 5: Legions of Fire, Book 1) by Peter David ISBN: 0345427181 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 07 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Out of the Darkness (Babylon 5: Legions of Fire, Book 3) by Peter David ISBN: 0345427203 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Armies of Light and Dark (Babylon 5: Legions of Fire, Book 2) by Peter David ISBN: 034542719X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester (Babylon 5) by J. Gregory Keyes ISBN: 0345427173 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps (Babylon 5) by J. Gregory Keyes ISBN: 0345427157 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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