Trade Paperback
200 Pages, 5.56 x 8.56 x 0.5 IN
April 14, 1998
Random House Publishing Group
0345424484
9780345424488
From Our Editors
Includes Killick's essays "By Any Means Necessary: Making "Babylon 5" on a Budget" and ""Babylon 5's" Second Season"; a complete guide to and analysis of the season's 22 episodes, including "Point of Departure", "Hunter's Prey", and "The Fall of Night". Web page feature
From the Publisher
Now in its fifth hit season, Babylon 5--TV''s hottest interstellar
science-fiction phenomenon--has spawned its own series of
definitive episode guides! Catch up on all the action, show by
show, from the very beginning with the Babylon 5: Season by Season
guidebooks.
Babylon 5: The Coming of Shadows, opens with "By Any Means
Necessary: Making Babylon 5 on a Budget," a behind-the-scenes
account of how series creator J. Michael Straczynski and his
production team bucked the system to create the extraordinary
twenty-first century world that would change the face of sci-fi TV.
Then, in a thrilling second season overview, experience the arrival
of Bruce Boxleitner as John J. Sheridan, new captain of the Babylon
5 station, and the looming threat of the sinister Shadows.
In-depth, episode-by-episode summaries--with detailed analysis by
author and B5 expert Jane Killick--cover all of the second
season''s twenty-two shows, including "Points of Departure,"
"Spider in the Web," "Comes the Inquisitor," and the dramatic
season finale, "The Fall of Night."
Veteran viewers or first-time fans, relive the adventure--or find
out what you''ve been missing--with the complete companions to
Babylon 5!
From the Jacket
Now in its fifth hit season, Babylon 5--TV''s hottest interstellar
science-fiction phenomenon--has spawned its own series of
definitive episode guides! Catch up on all the action, show by
show, from the very beginning with the Babylon 5: Season by Season
guidebooks.
Babylon 5: The Coming of Shadows, opens with "By Any Means
Necessary: Making Babylon 5 on a Budget," a behind-the-scenes
account of how series creator J. Michael Straczynski and his
production team bucked the system to create the extraordinary
twenty-first century world that would change the face of sci-fi TV.
Then, in a thrilling second season overview, experience the arrival
of Bruce Boxleitner as John J. Sheridan, new captain of the Babylon
5 station, and the looming threat of the sinister Shadows.
In-depth, episode-by-episode summaries--with detailed analysis by
author and B5 expert Jane Killick--cover all of the second
season''s twenty-two shows, including "Points of Departure,"
"Spider in the Web," "Comes the Inquisitor," and the dramatic
season finale, "The Fall of Night."
Veteran viewers or first-time fans, relive the adventure--or find
out what you''ve been missing--with the complete companions to
Babylon 5!