
Part of Series
• And the Sky, Full of Stars • Signs and Portents • A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1 • A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2 • Babylon Squared • The Quality of Mercy • Chrysalis ( famous first-season finale) This volume also contains: • A brand new 57 page, 15,000 word introduction and commentary written exclusively for this volume! (That’s two thousand words longer than volume one.) • 37 pages of memos describing for the first time the design of B5's guns, links, and the alien sector...the creation of new regular characters later omitted from the series (The Boss and The Mysterious Mr. Jones). In a special feature, the memos also include story development notes and recently-rediscovered premises for such lost season one Babylon 5 episodes as The World Below, The Resurrectionist, The Commander’s Hour, In Their Image, Debt of Honor, Target Unknown and many, many more! • 8 pages of B&W photos of cast and crew taken by Straczynski, drawn from his personal archives, seen here for the first time.
Author

Joseph Michael Straczynski, known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is a playwright, a former journalist, and author of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting. He was the creator and showrunner for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5 and, from 2001 to 2007, the writer for the long-running Marvel comic book series The Amazing Spider-Man.