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Here we are again...for another book review. This is a review for a novel based on one of my top ten favourite Sci-Fi TV Shows of all time.
It's now been re-released as simply "Babylon 5: To Dream in the City of Sorrows." Although the cover has changed, the story itself still remains the same. Set in between the first and second seasons of the J. Michael Straczynski's television series "Babylon 5", the book tells the story of Jeffrey Sinclair aka Valen (played on the TV series by Michael O'Hare) and the Rangers. The novel, written by Kathryn M. Drennan, takes the readers deep into the culture of the Minbari and gives them a taste of how the events of the series came into play. Drennan weaves a tightly woven tale around the mysteries and legends that surround the choosing of Sinclair as Ranger One, the revelation of who he will become and the events that led to the Shadow war. In the story, Drennan also speculates about what happened to Catherine Sakai, Sinclair's on again/off again lady love in the first season of the series. Drennan's creative stylings make for a great read. The one thing that I love most about this book is that it ties up all the loose ends that viewers of the series had left after the episodes "War Without End, Part One" and "War Without End, Part Two" and even before. Two of the most asked questions around were "why was Sinclair really looking so lost and alone?" and "what really happened to Marcus's brother?" Those questions were answered in "To Dream in the City of Sorrows." As J. Michael Straczynski wrote in his introduction, this is the first of the "Babylon 5" novels that can be considered "cannonical in every small detail." It's also the first novel that Drennan wrote, although she's been published in several magazines and several newspapers. Drennan also wrote episodes for several television series including "Babylon 5." The episode that Drennan wrote for "Babylon 5" is still one of my favourite episodes, it is entitled "By Any Means Neccessary." The episode showed Sinclair and crew at their best, when Sinclair is forced to negotiate with the union of dock workers and bring about a swift end to the illegal strike. Go To Page: 1 2
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