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Summary: Babylon 5 is the best show ever made!
Review: Babylon 5 is the best show ever made! The depth of which J. Michael Straczynski has created is far beyond all other Sci-Fi series or books I have ever heard of. He is Genius.
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Summary: The last best hope for things that go bump in the night
Review: Based on the second TV movie based on the hit tv show, Thirdspace follows the pacing logic of a good horror novel: it starts out slowly, builds up, and the concludes in a dizzying climax. The best way to discribe it is to think of the brilliant movie Event Horizon, but influenced by Lovercraft (as EH was obvious styled after Clive Barker.) When Ivanova and her squad discover a giant relic floating in hyperspace, little does anyone realize the trouble it will cause. So Ivanova, Captain Sheridan and Security Chief Zack Allen find themselves fighting for their survival amoung the chaos that has been unleashed from the hellish dimension known as Thirdspace. Entertaining read, with enough flare to make you wait for the movie.
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Summary: The last best hope for things that go bump in the night
Review: Del Rey is showing Dell how the series of Babylon 5 books should have been done. Let's hope that the originals scheduled to start coming out this fall can keep up the quality of "In the Beginning" and "Thirdspace".Peter David has a real feel for the characters within the Babylon 5 universe - he did, after all, write a few episodes - and it shows. The story is not an original by him, since it is the novelization of a screenplay, but he handles it very well. A very good movie can make for a very poor novelization if slavishly "adapted" - thankfully, Peter David has made a very good book based on what I hope will prove to be a very good movie.
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Summary: Keep up the quality
Review: Del Rey is showing Dell how the series of Babylon 5 books should have been done. Let's hope that the originals scheduled to start coming out this fall can keep up the quality of "In the Beginning" and "Thirdspace". Peter David has a real feel for the characters within the Babylon 5 universe - he did, after all, write a few episodes - and it shows. The story is not an original by him, since it is the novelization of a screenplay, but he handles it very well. A very good movie can make for a very poor novelization if slavishly "adapted" - thankfully, Peter David has made a very good book based on what I hope will prove to be a very good movie.
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Summary: It was cool!
Review: I love Peter David, and I love B5, so the two combined is very cool! If you are picking which B5 books to read, pick this one, In the Begining or To Dream in the City of Sorrows. They are just as good as the show/movies. If you saw the movie of this and liked it, read the book too, it has more than just what was in the movie!
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Summary: A good story despite a mediocre film
Review: Most of the B5 fans I know were disappointed in the Thirdsapce movie. (It didn't compare well to the incredible effort of In The Beginning.) However, Thirdspace is actually a pretty nice story that comes out much better in the print version. Things certainly make much more sense, at least. I do notice a distressing similarity to "The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name" (novel 5) -- they're by no means the exact same story, but they are similar.
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Summary: Good movie, much better book
Review: The movie was good, much better than "River of Souls", but the books was incredible. Peter David has a way of writing that is absolutely incredible.
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Summary: Good movie, much better book
Review: The movie was good, much better than "River of Souls", but the books was incredible. Peter David has a way of writing that is absolutely incredible.
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Summary: Good movie, much better book
Review: The movie was good, much better than "River of Souls", but the books was incredible. Peter David has a way of writing that is absolutely incredible.
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Summary: Better-than-average B5 book, but sub-par for Peter David
Review: This book definitely is an improvement over most of the early Babylon 5 novels. However, for anyone familiar with the science fiction of Peter David, this book is a let-down. The dizzying complexity of sub-plot upon sub-plot upon sub-plot mixed with the hackneyed "little did they know" and "unbeknownst to (X-character)" foreshadowings grated on my nerves. Also, this story is a stand-alone, having no real connection to the B5 story arc. If you are familar with Peter David's brilliant comedic Star Trek novels "Rock and a Hard Place" and "Q-in-Law", you'll be disappointed. This novel is more closely related to David's "Q-Squared". If you want to read a superb B5 novel by David, I recommend "In the Beginning", a novelization which actually surpasses the B5 movie in characterization and style. You'll be glad you read it, and better off passing "Thirdspace" by.
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