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Voices (Babylon 5, Book 1)

Voices (Babylon 5, Book 1)

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: All in all, I liked it!
Review: My friend recently got me hooked on the show, and I've watched the repeats of the first four seasons. I liked the show enough to pick this book up. I was very disappointed, because I found the characters in the book acting very differently from the way they do on the show. I can only hope the other books in the series treat the characters of Mr. Straczynski better.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Are these the same characters that I know from "Babylon 5"?
Review: My friend recently got me hooked on the show, and I've watched the repeats of the first four seasons. I liked the show enough to pick this book up. I was very disappointed, because I found the characters in the book acting very differently from the way they do on the show. I can only hope the other books in the series treat the characters of Mr. Straczynski better.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Mainly a Talia Winters - Michael Garibaldi novel.
Review: Readable, although had a couple of physics errors, like needing to 'get back to speed' after cutting off the acceleration on a shuttle (no acceleration equals no perceived gravity was right, though). Some of the people made some decisions that seemed non-typical for them. One such thing was the conference on Babylon 5, although when you accepted that, the rest was quite believable.

Mainly a Talia Winters - Michael Garibaldi novel.

The events take place after "Points of Departure" and before "A Race Through Dark Places".

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Definetly not the last best hope for a good read
Review: This book was not quite as good as i had hoped. there were many things i was unhappy about, but also some very good concepts. I liked Harriman Grey being in the story but the author did not really get Talia Winters right. In his defense he had book 1. His was the first and with mr Bester he had been in only one show. If you are a B5 fan get it and give it a read. it is still good for a collection.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 0 stars -- really, REALLY bad
Review: To start with, the author doesn't understand the difference between Celsius and Kelvin, thereby turning Mars into a hothouse world. It goes downhill from there.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 0 stars -- really, REALLY bad
Review: To start with, the author doesn't understand the difference between Celsius and Kelvin, thereby turning Mars into a hothouse world. It goes downhill from there.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The first Babylon 5 novel
Review: Voices is the 1st novel based upon the Babylon 5 series. It is a good novel, but fans of the television series may find it uncharacteristic or possibly a bit annoying. I tried to remind myself that it was written early in the series and that many of the plot and character developments that I was aware of had not yet been explored when this book was written.

The plot concerns the Psi Corp convention being held on Babylon 5 after their original location on Mars is blown up. During the convention another bombing takes place and Talia Winters (Babylon 5's resident commercial telepath) becomes the prime suspect. Talia manages to escape from Babylon 5 as she attempts to clear her name. Talia is a fugitive being chased by Psi Corp, the military, the police and Michael Garibaldi (Security Chief on Babylon 5). Garibaldi is desperate to find her before any of the other entities, especially Psi Corp, find her.

I found the scenes on Babylon 5 at the start of the novel very good. There was a lot of humor, the interaction between Captain Sheridan, Commander Ivanova and Garibaldi were terrific. There were also some very humorous parts as Garibaldi plots to keep the telepaths from Psi Corp visiting Down Below.

However, when the book left the station it got much less interesting. The scenes on Earth while important to the plot, were not very interesting. Talia's encounter with a tribe of anglos living as Native Americans in the Native American southwest was sort of interesting, but not much was done with it.

All in all this is a good book, but not a great one. If you've never seen the television series Babylon 5, you may find it interesting. If you've seen a few episodes, you'd probably enjoy the book. If you are a die-hard fan of the series, you may like it, but try to remember that it was written early in the series run and don't expect fully fleshed out characters and situations.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The first Babylon 5 novel
Review: Voices is the 1st novel based upon the Babylon 5 series. It is a good novel, but fans of the television series may find it uncharacteristic or possibly a bit annoying. I tried to remind myself that it was written early in the series and that many of the plot and character developments that I was aware of had not yet been explored when this book was written.

The plot concerns the Psi Corp convention being held on Babylon 5 after their original location on Mars is blown up. During the convention another bombing takes place and Talia Winters (Babylon 5's resident commercial telepath) becomes the prime suspect. Talia manages to escape from Babylon 5 as she attempts to clear her name. Talia is a fugitive being chased by Psi Corp, the military, the police and Michael Garibaldi (Security Chief on Babylon 5). Garibaldi is desperate to find her before any of the other entities, especially Psi Corp, find her.

I found the scenes on Babylon 5 at the start of the novel very good. There was a lot of humor, the interaction between Captain Sheridan, Commander Ivanova and Garibaldi were terrific. There were also some very humorous parts as Garibaldi plots to keep the telepaths from Psi Corp visiting Down Below.

However, when the book left the station it got much less interesting. The scenes on Earth while important to the plot, were not very interesting. Talia's encounter with a tribe of anglos living as Native Americans in the Native American southwest was sort of interesting, but not much was done with it.

All in all this is a good book, but not a great one. If you've never seen the television series Babylon 5, you may find it interesting. If you've seen a few episodes, you'd probably enjoy the book. If you are a die-hard fan of the series, you may like it, but try to remember that it was written early in the series run and don't expect fully fleshed out characters and situations.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: All in all, I liked it!
Review: Voices was a good book, it was just like an episode. The main characters are Garabaldi, Talia and Bester.


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