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Babylon 5 #1
Voices
When a ruthless ambassador is assassinated, Security Chief Garibaldi and Commander Susan Ivanova join the victim's enraged assistant Na'Toth in a search for the killer, only to find themselves the targets of a blood oath
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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January 13, 2025
It is the dawn of the third age of mankind. The year is 2258. The place is Babylon 5.....
This is the first book in a series of original stories concerning the TV show Babylon 5, which was in its day one of the most spectacular scifi shows around. Still is in my humble opinion when I am currentlÿ rewatching the show on dvd. It is a still very strong and well written show with a vision where it wanted to go.
Anyhow the plot is aimed at the telepaths, especially the Psycops. When they want to have a conference on Mars somebody bombs their hotel. And then somebody thinks that having the conference on Babylon 5 seems to be a smart idea.
Hunderds of telepaths on a space station what can Ho wrong?- when it does it kills 5 people and hurts seversl people like mr Bester, an iconic role by Walter Koenig (best known as Mr Chekov from the original Star Trek).
The first suspect is the house telepath on B5, Talia Winters and when she runs she is going to be hunted by the Psycops.
The staff of B5 does not believe in her guilt and to prove it Mr Garibaldi, chief of security of B5, and Harriman Gray assistent of the infamous mr. Bester are send to investigate. What they find is a bigger thread for the Psycops than previously expected.
Various characters from the show turn up in this book that takes place party of B5, namely on earth and Mars.
It is a decent enough story that fleshes out some more background outside B5 and outside the main plot of the great war.
The charactersations of the various players in this story feel True to the tv show, the way Garabaldi finally recognizes the fugitive Talia Winters is hilarious.
It is a nice addition to the TV show and a bonus to read some more about the characters that kept me happy for 5 seasons in the best Scifi show on the telly, still the very best
A journey perhaps best chosen for B5 fans.
This is the first book in a series of original stories concerning the TV show Babylon 5, which was in its day one of the most spectacular scifi shows around. Still is in my humble opinion when I am currentlÿ rewatching the show on dvd. It is a still very strong and well written show with a vision where it wanted to go.
Anyhow the plot is aimed at the telepaths, especially the Psycops. When they want to have a conference on Mars somebody bombs their hotel. And then somebody thinks that having the conference on Babylon 5 seems to be a smart idea.
Hunderds of telepaths on a space station what can Ho wrong?- when it does it kills 5 people and hurts seversl people like mr Bester, an iconic role by Walter Koenig (best known as Mr Chekov from the original Star Trek).
The first suspect is the house telepath on B5, Talia Winters and when she runs she is going to be hunted by the Psycops.
The staff of B5 does not believe in her guilt and to prove it Mr Garibaldi, chief of security of B5, and Harriman Gray assistent of the infamous mr. Bester are send to investigate. What they find is a bigger thread for the Psycops than previously expected.
Various characters from the show turn up in this book that takes place party of B5, namely on earth and Mars.
It is a decent enough story that fleshes out some more background outside B5 and outside the main plot of the great war.
The charactersations of the various players in this story feel True to the tv show, the way Garabaldi finally recognizes the fugitive Talia Winters is hilarious.
It is a nice addition to the TV show and a bonus to read some more about the characters that kept me happy for 5 seasons in the best Scifi show on the telly, still the very best
A journey perhaps best chosen for B5 fans.
June 17, 2013
The first half of this is really good - It follows Talia Winters as she prepares for a telepath convention on B5. Excellent premise and using some of my favourite characters - Talia, Bester and Hariman Grey. I thought that the characters acted in character and the novel managed to pull off the B5 feel. Particularly impressed with the Talia/Kosh interaction and Invisible Isabel.
What I wasn't so keen on was the second half where we leave the station and follow Talia to Earth and Mars as she goes on the run. Deuce acted very much out of character and I just could not see him as he's portrayed in the novel. Suddenly this could become any sci-fi novel and not specific to B5.
Character dynamics - already mentioned Talia/Kosh which was fun, putting Garibaldi and Grey together to chase Talia also worked. This works in Grey's crush on Ivanova and Garibaldi's crush on Talia but I would really have liked some tension between Ivanova/Talia which apart from one tiny scene was almost completely absent.
A decent enough B5 story, but not a great one.
What I wasn't so keen on was the second half where we leave the station and follow Talia to Earth and Mars as she goes on the run. Deuce acted very much out of character and I just could not see him as he's portrayed in the novel. Suddenly this could become any sci-fi novel and not specific to B5.
Character dynamics - already mentioned Talia/Kosh which was fun, putting Garibaldi and Grey together to chase Talia also worked. This works in Grey's crush on Ivanova and Garibaldi's crush on Talia but I would really have liked some tension between Ivanova/Talia which apart from one tiny scene was almost completely absent.
A decent enough B5 story, but not a great one.
February 29, 2016
Feels just like a two-part episode of the show. Nothing about VOICES particularly stands out, but it's an enjoyable read and does a good job with further fleshing out the B5 characters, especially in regard to Talia Winters, who suddenly finds herself on the lam as a rogue telepath. Much of the book takes place on Earth, which is unusual for B5, and it's fun to see Bester (played on the show by Walter Koenig) and his Psy Cops stirring up trouble again. The first 2/3 of the novel make for high-quality "light" sci-fi, but the last 1/3 feels sloppy. The search for Talia begins to take on an almost comedic quality, with Garibaldi somehow able to pick her out of a crowd--despite her elaborate disguise--based solely on a quick glimpse of her shapely, pantsuit-clad rear end. Author John Vornholt then tries to cram an entire third act into the last 20 pages or so, resulting in a dizzying and unsatisfying conclusion that leaves several big questions unanswered--the biggest one being: "What sort of crazy deadline was Mr. Vornholt working under that made him rush the ending like this?"
November 22, 2024
Edit to add: That GR blurb is incorrect - that's a summary of book 3 'Blood Oath.'
I started collecting these before I'd ever watched the TV series but for some reason they had remained unread on my shelves. Now on my third or fourth rewatch I suddenly, finally have made a start. And what a treat this first one was to read.
I would have rated this full stars if not for two sections in the final part of the story, one of which was Garibaldi making a positive identification by butt recognition. I mean I like butts too but it didn't feel appropriate. Although admittedly, it probably would be something Garibaldi would come out with.
Which leads to the first thing y'all really want to know when it comes to tie-in fiction.... were the characters in character? I thought so and I thought it was done consistently and believably. Maybe slightly less so for main characters with only minor appearance in this story.
Book One, 'Voices' brings back Harriman Gray - the ex military Psi Corps agent (played by the wonderful Jeffrey Combs). And when Winters gets framed he teams up with Garibaldi to hunt down the real perpetrators.
Our most love-to-hate Psi Corps man Bester winds up in Dr Franklin's care which gives the heroic hunters a head start and Miss Winters transforms herself into a Miss Nelson in an effort to avoid absolutely everyone.
It's a fun, madcap adventure and this story gets an impassioned recommendation from me.
I started collecting these before I'd ever watched the TV series but for some reason they had remained unread on my shelves. Now on my third or fourth rewatch I suddenly, finally have made a start. And what a treat this first one was to read.
I would have rated this full stars if not for two sections in the final part of the story, one of which was Garibaldi making a positive identification by butt recognition. I mean I like butts too but it didn't feel appropriate. Although admittedly, it probably would be something Garibaldi would come out with.
Which leads to the first thing y'all really want to know when it comes to tie-in fiction.... were the characters in character? I thought so and I thought it was done consistently and believably. Maybe slightly less so for main characters with only minor appearance in this story.
Book One, 'Voices' brings back Harriman Gray - the ex military Psi Corps agent (played by the wonderful Jeffrey Combs). And when Winters gets framed he teams up with Garibaldi to hunt down the real perpetrators.
Our most love-to-hate Psi Corps man Bester winds up in Dr Franklin's care which gives the heroic hunters a head start and Miss Winters transforms herself into a Miss Nelson in an effort to avoid absolutely everyone.
It's a fun, madcap adventure and this story gets an impassioned recommendation from me.
August 6, 2022
This book was OK, but it felt like it was written for a young teenager and had a pedestrian plot and a desperate, exclamation heavy style of prose.
January 28, 2015
I didn't really enjoy this book. Even though I braved through 200 something pages, the entire time I was just hoping for it to be over. The book has quite a lot of phony chapter closers that are suppose to add tension and keep the reader interested, but almost all of them are fabricated totally for that purpose, and fizzle out immediately. In that way, the book reads like juvenile fiction, and made my eyes roll. However, maybe that's just a minor gripe.
The major problems with the book is the plot, characters and resolution. The story is almost entirely about Talia Winters, however, the character is totally wrong, and doesn't sync up with the character on the show at all. I suppose I can't explain without spoilers, so here it is.
This is the 3rd John Vornholt book that I have read, and the first 2 had terrible resolutions. Guess what? Then why is it when I get to the end of a Vornholt book that all the sudden the plot doesn't matter anymore, and the dumbest resolution possible is suddenly considered acceptable? How does a writer make a living when he shrugs at the end of every book and basically says, "ah, who cares really?"
It could have been worse I suppose. He managed to capture Garabaldi fine, and it was nice to see Gray again. I love Bester as a character, even though the book hardly ever used him. Vornholt's vocabulary is interesting and easy enough to read.
Really, when you crack open a Babylon 5 book, don't you hope to have aliens,telepaths and the actual space station throughout? Now, imagine B5 without all of those things, and you have this book. It's just a let-down. Vornholt seems to have issues with resolution and tends to create story lines that simply drag for ever in the middle.
Just trust a tortured soul for once, and skip this.
The major problems with the book is the plot, characters and resolution. The story is almost entirely about Talia Winters, however, the character is totally wrong, and doesn't sync up with the character on the show at all. I suppose I can't explain without spoilers, so here it is.
This is the 3rd John Vornholt book that I have read, and the first 2 had terrible resolutions. Guess what? Then why is it when I get to the end of a Vornholt book that all the sudden the plot doesn't matter anymore, and the dumbest resolution possible is suddenly considered acceptable? How does a writer make a living when he shrugs at the end of every book and basically says, "ah, who cares really?"
It could have been worse I suppose. He managed to capture Garabaldi fine, and it was nice to see Gray again. I love Bester as a character, even though the book hardly ever used him. Vornholt's vocabulary is interesting and easy enough to read.
Really, when you crack open a Babylon 5 book, don't you hope to have aliens,telepaths and the actual space station throughout? Now, imagine B5 without all of those things, and you have this book. It's just a let-down. Vornholt seems to have issues with resolution and tends to create story lines that simply drag for ever in the middle.
Just trust a tortured soul for once, and skip this.
February 21, 2019
While technically not an adapted episode, this is supposedly a story taking place in between some of the episodes in the series. I had read some of Vornholt's Star Trek material, so I picked this one up when I saw a copy.
It's not great literature. It's not great SF. It's not even great Babylon 5 storytelling. There were plot flaws aplenty, especially things like the weird limitation on how quickly a fake ID would go bad, and the ways in which you could rush legislation without telepaths figuring out that you were up to something. I also found the travel between planets and between Earth and B5 to feel a lot faster than in the series. I mean, the travel times mentioned were amazingly short, requiring ships to average something like a hundred million kilometers a day on a fairly short run. That requires pretty serious acceleration and deceleration, which might be possible in that future, but for a random passenger vessel seemed odd. Maybe they had Doc Smith inertialess drives?
The story itself felt very much like one of the early episodes from the series, before the characters had reached a full level of development. Ivanova and Garibaldi were solid, but Dr. Franklin was very sketchy in the few scenes involving him, and Captain Sheridan felt off, somehow. Maybe too political?
All that said, it was still fun to read. As a fan of the series, even years later I'm wistful for the B5 universe and the many stories we didn't get to see or read. In that context, I found the story enjoyable, and some of the running gags and plot interactions were excellent, like HOW Garibaldi recognized Talia Winters when she was hiding. Luckily for him, she wasn't aware of it.
It's not great literature. It's not great SF. It's not even great Babylon 5 storytelling. There were plot flaws aplenty, especially things like the weird limitation on how quickly a fake ID would go bad, and the ways in which you could rush legislation without telepaths figuring out that you were up to something. I also found the travel between planets and between Earth and B5 to feel a lot faster than in the series. I mean, the travel times mentioned were amazingly short, requiring ships to average something like a hundred million kilometers a day on a fairly short run. That requires pretty serious acceleration and deceleration, which might be possible in that future, but for a random passenger vessel seemed odd. Maybe they had Doc Smith inertialess drives?
The story itself felt very much like one of the early episodes from the series, before the characters had reached a full level of development. Ivanova and Garibaldi were solid, but Dr. Franklin was very sketchy in the few scenes involving him, and Captain Sheridan felt off, somehow. Maybe too political?
All that said, it was still fun to read. As a fan of the series, even years later I'm wistful for the B5 universe and the many stories we didn't get to see or read. In that context, I found the story enjoyable, and some of the running gags and plot interactions were excellent, like HOW Garibaldi recognized Talia Winters when she was hiding. Luckily for him, she wasn't aware of it.
May 5, 2013
Ok this seems to be a pattern of me finding books from TV shows from yesterday - first Beauty and the Beast from the 80s and now Babylon 5 from the 90s - it all seems to dated but strangely as I read the book all the characters came back in to focus and all were as real as they were when I watched the shows the first time around. It is amazing home quickly you can get back in to a show or a storyline and feel like you have never left - The book is part of a larger series of titles - I guess I will be dismantling my room to go find it while i finish off a few more titles.
March 19, 2018
The characters don't ring true to their later selves
December 17, 2018
I wanted to like it
April 29, 2024
The destruction of a resort on Mars by rebel forces creates a quandary for an upcoming conference of telepaths where Psi Corps and a commercial enterprise, The Mix, are both looking to promote their own agendas. With almost no notice, the venue is transferred to Babylon 5 and the station personnel feel overwhelmed by the sudden influx of gifted individuals, many of whom are likely to put themselves in harm's way because they don't know any better.
Talia feels she is being wooed - both professionally and personally - by Arthur Malten, founder of The Mix. She feels uncomfortable at replacing Emily Crane, Malten's assistant, and relies on her for help in building the presentation.
Garibaldi is appalled that he won't be able to keep the visitors out of Down Below - so he arranges for an inspection that, coincidentally, is attacked by several violent hooded thugs. The resulting publicity keeps the visitors well away - just as Garibaldi intended.
Harriman Gray has fallen seriously for Susan Ivanova - the one person who hates Psi Corps with a vengeance.
Bester is keeping a watch on everyone and is suspicious of Talia Winters, whose uncle Ted is a leading revolutionary on Mars.
In a small group meeting between Bester and Malten, Talia feels ill and leaves momentarily. A bomb goes off, wounding Bester and killing several Psi Cops. Malten however emerges unscathed.
Talia is the instant suspect because the bomb was in her handbag. But everything in the bag was inspected before she entered the room. How did the bomb get there?
She's put in the brig and is terrified that she'll disappear into the hands of the Psi Cops, never to reappear. Kosh visits her and hints for her to call up "Invisible Isabel" (a personality that is part of Talia? We never get to find out.) Escaping, she makes her way to Earth looking for answers from Emily Crane. But she's not the only one who wants answers and she can only make a certain number of moves before the world-wide surveillance system will figure she's an anomaly.
Talia feels she is being wooed - both professionally and personally - by Arthur Malten, founder of The Mix. She feels uncomfortable at replacing Emily Crane, Malten's assistant, and relies on her for help in building the presentation.
Garibaldi is appalled that he won't be able to keep the visitors out of Down Below - so he arranges for an inspection that, coincidentally, is attacked by several violent hooded thugs. The resulting publicity keeps the visitors well away - just as Garibaldi intended.
Harriman Gray has fallen seriously for Susan Ivanova - the one person who hates Psi Corps with a vengeance.
Bester is keeping a watch on everyone and is suspicious of Talia Winters, whose uncle Ted is a leading revolutionary on Mars.
In a small group meeting between Bester and Malten, Talia feels ill and leaves momentarily. A bomb goes off, wounding Bester and killing several Psi Cops. Malten however emerges unscathed.
Talia is the instant suspect because the bomb was in her handbag. But everything in the bag was inspected before she entered the room. How did the bomb get there?
She's put in the brig and is terrified that she'll disappear into the hands of the Psi Cops, never to reappear. Kosh visits her and hints for her to call up "Invisible Isabel" (a personality that is part of Talia? We never get to find out.) Escaping, she makes her way to Earth looking for answers from Emily Crane. But she's not the only one who wants answers and she can only make a certain number of moves before the world-wide surveillance system will figure she's an anomaly.
January 11, 2023
First sentence: "Welcome to Mars," said the sultry, automated voice.
Premise/plot: When Talia Winters (Babylon 5's resident telepath) is accused of being a terrorist and bombing a telepath convention being held on the station, it may be up to Michael Garibaldi and Harriman Gray (an unlikely duo to say the best) to track down the real person(s) responsible, clear Talia's name, and restore her reputation.
Most of the action of this science-fiction novel occurs off the Babylon 5 station. It definitely has plenty of Mr. Bester in it. Though plenty of other telepaths (Psi Corps) enter into the story.
My thoughts: This was my first time to read Voices. I've read a handful of other Babylon 5 novels (at least three, maybe four). Talia Winters has never been my favorite-or-best character on the show. Either I've mellowed out in my most recent binge-watch, or this novel has helped me like her more.
The pacing of this one was solid. I definitely wanted to keep reading to figure out just how her name was cleared. I never doubted for a minute that it would be. I knew that no matter the dangers Garibaldi and Winters faced somehow, someway these two would make it back to the Babylon 5 station intact. But there is more than one reason--suspense--to read a novel.
Premise/plot: When Talia Winters (Babylon 5's resident telepath) is accused of being a terrorist and bombing a telepath convention being held on the station, it may be up to Michael Garibaldi and Harriman Gray (an unlikely duo to say the best) to track down the real person(s) responsible, clear Talia's name, and restore her reputation.
Most of the action of this science-fiction novel occurs off the Babylon 5 station. It definitely has plenty of Mr. Bester in it. Though plenty of other telepaths (Psi Corps) enter into the story.
My thoughts: This was my first time to read Voices. I've read a handful of other Babylon 5 novels (at least three, maybe four). Talia Winters has never been my favorite-or-best character on the show. Either I've mellowed out in my most recent binge-watch, or this novel has helped me like her more.
The pacing of this one was solid. I definitely wanted to keep reading to figure out just how her name was cleared. I never doubted for a minute that it would be. I knew that no matter the dangers Garibaldi and Winters faced somehow, someway these two would make it back to the Babylon 5 station intact. But there is more than one reason--suspense--to read a novel.
February 25, 2023
This novel is set near the beginning of the second season of the Babylon 5 TV show. A scheduled convention of Psi Corp, the Mix (civilian commercial telepaths), and military telepaths on Mars must be relocated after the hotel on Mars is bombed by a mysterious group calling itself Free Phobos. Babylon 5 is chosen as the new location for the convention. The new station commander, Captain John Sheridan thinks it would be a great way to advertise Babylon 5 as a place of business and tourism.
Despite the security efforts of Garibaldi someone manages to plant a bomb in one of the meeting rooms and detonate it, killing several telepaths. Evidence points to it being Talia Winters. With the aid of ambassador Kosh, Talia escapes detainment on Babyon 5, determined to prove her innocence. Geraboldi finds a way to go after her while also searching for the real culprits of the crime.
The first half or so of the book takes place on Babylon 5. Then it shifts locations to Earth and Mars as the hunt for Talia and evidence to clear her proceeds.
Despite the security efforts of Garibaldi someone manages to plant a bomb in one of the meeting rooms and detonate it, killing several telepaths. Evidence points to it being Talia Winters. With the aid of ambassador Kosh, Talia escapes detainment on Babyon 5, determined to prove her innocence. Geraboldi finds a way to go after her while also searching for the real culprits of the crime.
The first half or so of the book takes place on Babylon 5. Then it shifts locations to Earth and Mars as the hunt for Talia and evidence to clear her proceeds.
February 24, 2019
I go back and forth on this one. On one hand, we get a closer look into the B5 universe that we haven't seen before - the story focuses on Talia Winters, Psi Corps, and an internal struggle in the telepath community. On the other hand, we do not get to see much of our favorite characters, other than Garibaldi. I almost wish this had been set in the first season rather than the second - the characterization of Captain Sheridan seems a bit off and evens seem somewhat contradicted by what we saw on the show. I also thought Talia being a fugitive on Earth was a odd part to me - the author want to create this different group of people living on Earth, but it just seemed odd to me, with Talia pretending to be mute. So I would almost say this book is skippable for B5 fans, but it's not terrible. There's Bester, Mars terrorists, and intrigue!
December 23, 2022
Had I read this 20 years ago my rating would have been lower, so 1 star for sentimentality. The first half on the station is the best part, just hanging out with the characters on good ol' B5. Vornholt gets most of the characters wrong, as is to be expected with '80s-'90s (and '70s) tv sci-fi book things ("novels" is too generous, yes? - and you know me, how much I love them), but we the fans expect it and overlook it.
The middle Talia-on-the-run part is mostly a drag, except for the fun bits of Garibaldi and Grey teaming up. The ending is what these things have to be, so no real suspense happens, except for maybe a tinge of pathos for Talia, since we know what's about to happen to her in the series.
It's taken me 20 years to finally start reading these. It's great to be back on Babylon 5. We didn't know how good we had it back in the day.
The middle Talia-on-the-run part is mostly a drag, except for the fun bits of Garibaldi and Grey teaming up. The ending is what these things have to be, so no real suspense happens, except for maybe a tinge of pathos for Talia, since we know what's about to happen to her in the series.
It's taken me 20 years to finally start reading these. It's great to be back on Babylon 5. We didn't know how good we had it back in the day.
October 15, 2022
Action. Mystery. Humor.
Released in February 1995, this first book of the Babylon 5 novel series features Talia Winters, B5's only commercial telepath, and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi. A well narrated story spanning beyond B5 with several recognizable details adapted from the original TV series. The dialogue captures the cadence of each character's distinct voice. Would have liked more clarity on the Bilagáana’s appearance and hygiene not necessarily aligning with true Native American culture. (Mass Market Paperback)
Released in February 1995, this first book of the Babylon 5 novel series features Talia Winters, B5's only commercial telepath, and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi. A well narrated story spanning beyond B5 with several recognizable details adapted from the original TV series. The dialogue captures the cadence of each character's distinct voice. Would have liked more clarity on the Bilagáana’s appearance and hygiene not necessarily aligning with true Native American culture. (Mass Market Paperback)
July 29, 2023
The only voice captured accurately in this was the voice of Alfred Bester. Even then, it was only accurate occasionally. None of the B5 characters are realistic portrayal of their show-selves in this book. The plot was weak and predictable, the portrayal of Talia as an incompetent, wailing woman was… misguided (at best), and the ridiculous involvement of Kosh in any capacity was just ill-advised.
I kept falling asleep while reading this countless times. If you’re wanting a novel to continue/involve yourself more intricately in the lives of your favorite characters, give this a pass.
I kept falling asleep while reading this countless times. If you’re wanting a novel to continue/involve yourself more intricately in the lives of your favorite characters, give this a pass.
April 25, 2024
I was really impressed with the first half of this book - everyone seemed to be in character and I was really engaged with the goings-on. But then the second half arrived and Talia ended up in a colonialist's racist fantasy, an unnecessary diversion which added nothing to the plot (though it makes sense when you read the author's bio and find out he's a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs... at least Vornholt had the grace to mention that the culture of those people had been stolen from others). That said, overall this is a strong based-on-a-TV-show novel.
May 19, 2020
Pretty awful. I mean not _bad_, but dull and tedious. The story was Meh, a bomb nearly kills Mr Bester, Mar is blamed, Talia is blamed, Talia is on the run. That is about it. No character depth, no story nuance, loose ends all over the place.
Took an absolute age to read, just because there was nothing enticing me back to read any more of it.
Took an absolute age to read, just because there was nothing enticing me back to read any more of it.
December 29, 2019
Ein Roman aus dem B5-Universum. Gute Story, aber leider eine von der Serie teilweise abweichende Charakterrisierung (Sheridan, Franklin, Deuce) und deshalb eben in der Gesamtwertung nur gut und nicht sehr gut.
June 12, 2021
I love everything about Babylon 5 in general. My only problem with this book is that I am not really a fan of Talia Winters, and as this story centers around her, I struggled a bit with this one. The writing and story are good, and I love all the other characters.
May 3, 2024
I am a sucker for a good Babylon 5 story. Add in Bester as great "antagonist" and it is the cherry on top of the cake. The book introduces a whole new side to the psi corps (commercial telepaths) and does some lore development around their role in the corps.
May 28, 2025
Almost but not quite another B5 episode. I can see why JMS did not consider it a canon event. Too much happened in this hair raising whodunnit to justify character changes in between early season 2 episodes. Still an enjoyable diversion.
August 3, 2025
An entertaining read and worth reading if you are a Babylon 5 fan, but I docked it a star for portraying Mars as a hot planet instead of a cold planet. The author appears to have confused Celsius and Kelvin which is surprising for someone writing science fiction.
August 5, 2020
It was okay. I picked up the entire series after re-watching the show during the Pandemic. So wanted to get some extra Babylon 5.
April 24, 2021
For fans of Andrea Thompson and Jerry Doyle and Babylon 5 this book is for you.
May 1, 2022
This book did not disappoint. It did a wonderful job echoing the series. I love Babylon 5 and being able to continue reading stories from the show is wonderful.
July 22, 2022
Solid, just what I needed in the middle of revision for my uni exams!
January 2, 2023
My only gripe was the story having Mars' atmosphere be 700 degrees Fahrenheit, which isn't accurate even in Babylon 5's universe.
August 5, 2023
Really, this is all for Michael Garibaldi. Okay, and Harriman Gray. I always quite liked him.
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