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Babylon 5 Reference Books

Season by Season Guides

cover Signs and Portents (Babylon 5: Season by Season, Book 1)
by Jane Killick
This book contains detailed summaries and analyses of the pilot and the first season episodes. It also includes a foreword by Michael O'Hare and the essay, "Getting Babylon 5 into Orbit".

cover The Coming of Shadows (Babylon 5, No 2)
by Jane Killick
This book contains detailed summaries and analyses of the second season episodes. It also includes the essay, "By Any Means Necessary: Making Babylon 5 on a Budget".

cover Babylon 5: Point of No Return
by Jane Killick
This book contains detailed summaries and analyses of the third season episodes. It also includes the essay, "Special Effects". (This item is only available - possibly used - from the Amazon Marketplace.)

cover No Surrender, No Retreat (Babylon 5 Season by Season, No 4)
by Jane Killick
This book contains detailed summaries and analyses of the fourth season episodes. It also includes the essay, "Script to Screen".

cover Babylon 5 : Wheel of Fire (Babylon 5 Season by Season, No 5)
by Jane Killick
This book contains detailed summaries and analyses of the fifth season episodes. It also includes the essay, "Looking Back Over Five Years".

Other Reference Books

cover The A-Z Guide to Babylon 5
by David Bassom
This reference book is an indispensable guide to all the people, places, and things in the Babylon 5 universe. Just look up an entry that you are interested in as you would in an encyclopedia. The only downside to this excellent volume is that it was published while Babylon 5 was still on the air, so it is only complete through the third episode of Season Three. (This item is only available - possibly used - from the Amazon Marketplace.)

cover Babylon 5 Security Manual
by Jim Mortimore
This is a fictional reference to Babylon 5 and its universe written as if Security Chief Michael Garibaldi is the author.

cover Creating Babylon 5: Behind the Scenes of Warner Bros. Revolutionary Deep Space TV Drama
by David Bassom
This book takes an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Babylon 5. From plot development to the ground-breaking special effects, it covers all aspects of the production. Interviews with all the main cast and key production crew combine with page after page of stunning photography and essential details about the Babylon 5 universe. (This item is only available - possibly used - from the Amazon Marketplace.)

cover Interacting with Babylon 5: Fan Performances in a Media Universe
by Kurt Lancaster
This is an academic study that portrays the playing of games and other immersives experiences as performances. Babylon 5 serves as the example that runs through the entire book. Several games and other interactions like fan fiction are analyzed.

cover The Babylon File
by Andy Lane
Many fans feel that the unauthorized nature of this book results in less accuracy but more objectivity. (This item is only available - possibly used - from the Amazon Marketplace.)

cover Babylon File (Vol 2): The Definitive Unauthorised Guide to J Michael Stracsynski's Babylon 5
by Andy Lane
The label "unauthorized" gave the first book in this series less accuracy but more objectivity. However, many readers feel that the second volume serves only as a platform for the author's one-sided views. You be the judge.

The Babylon 5 Internet Guide
by Ashley Harper
This pamphlet contains 17 pages of web site descriptions and URLs. The book claims to be updated after each 100 copies are sold, so hopefully it is relatively up to date. (This item is only available - possibly used - from the Amazon Marketplace.)

Babylon 5! The Best Websites and Factoids
by Talis Pelucir
This list of Internet sites also contains a collection of Babylon 5 quick-reference facts.

The Babylon 5 : Crusade Internet and Episode Guide
by Scifigate
This booklet adds a Crusade episode guide to a list of web sites. The correctness of the list is unknown.

Babylon 5: Crusade! The Best Websites and Factoids
by Talis Pelucir
This 50-page list of Internet sites also contains a collection of Crusade quick-reference facts.

cover Making Faces, Playing God: Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup
by Thomas Morawetz
This book is an academic study of how transformational makeup satisfies the human desire to become something else. It isn't specifically about Babylon 5, but it does include a significant section on the makeup effects used by Babyon 5.