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Summary: Out of this WORLD
Review: This book was great. The authors did a great job on this book. Never before did I realize how much I like the B-5 series untill now. This book rivals that of the Star Trek series and Star Wars!
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Summary: Fine Novelization of TV Show
Review: This is a well written adaptation of the screen play for the episodes which cover the beginning of the Drakh war and the transition from B5 to the new series.
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Summary: Not bad, but not quite great
Review: This novel is solid and workmanlike, with absolutely nothing embarrassing or even mediocre about it. That said -- it left me somewhat cold through its general lack of real style. In that sense it falls short of the standard set by "The Shadow Within", "To Dream in the City of Sorrows", "Dark Genesis", "In the Beginning" and "Thirdspace", the extremely well-written B5 novels that preceded this one.
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Summary: Why not just print the script?
Review: Unlike the other books based on the TNT movies, I got nothing out of this book as a companion. If you haven't been able to catch the movie, then go ahead and read this, otherwise you're better off watching the film (assuming you can stand Chen's abrasive score).
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Summary: A disappointing hack job
Review: Wow, this was bad. Sheckley has written some good stuff in his time, so I can only assume that he needed the money in a hurry and wrote this over a weekend. It's pretty much JMS's shooting script in novel form - there's certainly no character or plot insights (contrast this to Peter David's novelization of "Thirdspace", which was a mediocre TV movie, but a much better book). It's not been carefully edited, either - there are many places where word choice is poor, and a sentence or two that really are redundant. It's about the level of work one might expect from a moderately-talented highschool sophomore. Collectors of B5 books will want this, but I'd recommend others get the video - it's much better on film.
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