Summoning Light

Press Release

THE BALLANTINE PUBLISHING GROUP
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The shocking second volume that reveals
the awful truth behind the techno-mages' powers

Babylon 5: Summoning Light

Book 2 of The Passing of the Techno-Mages Trilogy

By Jeanne Cavelos

In Babylon 5: Summoning Light (Del Rey; $6.99), second volume of the best-selling Passing of the Techno-Mages trilogy, World Fantasy Award winner Jeanne Cavelos builds suspense and action to a climactic revelation that will shock readers and turn all they have believed about the techno-mages upside down.

Cavelos takes us deeper inside the mysterious order of the techno-mages, a group of humans and aliens implanted with extremely advanced technology that allows them to perform acts that seem magical.

Only two species, the Shadows and the Vorlons, are more powerful than the mages. And now the Shadows and the Vorlons are going to war. Each threatens to kill the mages if they enter the war on the wrong side. Their only chance is to flee, and so the ruling Circle orders.

Many are unhappy with this decision, none more so than Galen, who lost his love Isabelle to the Shadows and a treacherous mage named Elizar. Galen stood by helplessly as she was killed, his hands tied by the Code he had sworn to uphold.

Now he wants to fight, not flee, and so as the others execute a desperate plan to escape into hiding without leaving a trace, Galen convinces the Circle to send him on a dangerous mission to a Shadow stronghold where he can uncover the enemy's plans. There, Galen will find everything he so desperately seeks--including a shocking legacy that may consume his very soul.

This book is a must-read for fans of Cavelos and fans of Babylon 5, uncovering an incredible truth that was never revealed in the television series. No tie-in novel has ever revealed a major secret like this before.

Cavelos's readers include fans of the TV show and those who have never seen the show, but who love her compelling, page-turning stories.

NOTE: Reruns of Babylon 5 are currently airing on the Sci-Fi Channel, and a new Babylon 5 TV movie will be premiering on Sci-Fi this fall.

Praise for Babylon 5: Casting Shadows,
Book 1 of The Passing of the Techno-Mages trilogy

--#1 on the Amazon.com media-related bestseller list
--#1 on the Locus magazine media-related bestseller list

"The best [Babylon 5 novel] of the bunch."
--J. Michael Straczynski, executive producer, creator/writer of Babylon 5

"It is the rare book that not only matches the quality of the material it is based upon, but surpasses it. . . . I have heard people talk before about books they just couldn't put down, but I had never experienced that feeling. Until now."
--The Zocalo Today

"The beginning of an epic. . . . If the writer set out to prove that media tie-ins could fulfill the demanding art of original storytelling and not just capitalize on a brand name, then she's succeeded brilliantly here."
--Wigglefish

"The best Babylon 5 book to date. . . . Doesn't deserve to be classed as a mere 'media novel.'"
--About.com

"A revelation. . . . Not 'television episodic' in look and feel. They are truly novels in their own right."
--Science Fiction Weekly

Babylon 5: Summoning Light
A Del Rey Book, 368 pages
07/01; US $6.99/Canada $9.99
ISBN 0-345-42722-X
www.randomhouse.com/delrey
www.sff.net/people/jcavelos