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From: macthevorlon@yahoo.com
"Stephen Churchill"
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> On 4 Jan 2004 12:05:40 -0800, Wakboth2001@yahoo.com
(Wakboth) wrote:
>
> >"Mac Breck" wrote in message
news:...
> >> "Wakboth" wrote in message
> >> news:7e6336d4.0401030640.5b094137@posting.google.com...
> >> > tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us (Tim Bruening) wrote in
message
> >>
news:...
> >> > > Spoilers for "Voices" the first Babylon 5 novel,
written
> >> by John
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> >> > > In this novel Talia Winters is framed for bombing a
Psi
> >> Corps convention
> >> > > on Babylon 5. At the beginning of this book,
Harriman
> >> Grey (a military
> >> > > telepath) disembarks on Mars, and a computer voice
> >> announces that the
> >> > > temperature is 201 Celcius (393.8F) and that the
> >> expected high would be
> >> > > 274 C (525.2F). On page 9, there is a reference to
> >> 200-degree heat,
> >> > > which dashed my notion that Vornholt had gotten
Celcius
> >> and Kevin
> >> > > confused. Later in the book, the temperature on
Mars
> >> rose to 379 C
> >> > > (714.2F!). Do you have any theories on how Mars
could
> >> get so hot? I
> >> > > thought Mars was supposed to be below freezing.
> >> >
> >> > What is happening here is that Vornholt has mixed
Mercury
> >> and Mars
> >> > (not a big deal, both begin with an M, after all...),
and
> >> no one with
> >> > even a semi-literacy in science read the book before
> >> publication.
> >> >
> >> > It's a pretty bad book anyway.
> >>
> >> Not as bad as #5. I haven't read #6 or #8 yet, but I
hear
> >> #8 is among the worst.
> >
> >Don't remember the numbers, but most -- no, all B5 books
I've read
> >have been less than stellar. The biggest problem I had
with them, as
> >well as with the Thirdspace movie, was that the B5
universe is
> >_tight_; there are no pointless loose ends, no pat
resolutions, no
> >meaningless filling (OK, some but not very much). And
then we have
> >these books, supposedly happening between episodes and
seasons, with
> >fairly major plot twists and incidents... and none of it
ever appears
> >in the series.
> >
> >They would have done a lot better by writing stories set
in B5
> >universe without setting them _on_ B5 and/or using the
established B5
> >characters.
>
> Which is probably why the Technomage and Psi-corp
Trilogies were
> enjoyable, at least by me. they take place mostly outside
the area
> covered by the series.
You didn't like Legions of Fire? Of the three trilogies,
The Technomage one is the one most often criticized for
coming into too close contact with the events of the TV
show, not Legions of Fire. The least enjoyable book of the
nine, for me, was the first Psi Corps book. It was the
driest, and the one which had a good deal of misleading
(attributionless) conversations, and aliases. Sometimes it
wasn't clear who was saying what, due to the lack of
attributions, when you could picture either character as
possibly saying the words.
--
Mac Breck (KoshN) - from the desktop PC
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http://www.scifi.com/crusade/
http://www.scifi.com/bboard/browse.cgi/1/5/1521 (Brimstone)
Of the last three trilogies,
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