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From the latest B5 Books newsletter, some more info on the forthcoming new book with a rather funky 'great machine' cover (you can vote for your fav colour scheme)…
“In our last newsletter, we announced the working title of the upcoming book (which has now changed) as "Intelligence from the Great Machine." We asked you to guess the contents, and below are some of our favorite responses. Is one of these correct? Find out next Wednesday, April 9”.
•The communication between Warner Brothers and JMS and crew during production / negotiations for renewal each season...
•The contents of the book will be notes JMS received from the studio and higher ups on what they wanted to see from the show.
•I think "Intelligence from the Great Machine" is going to be talking about all of the studio politics surrounding Babylon 5 and Crusade. I think "great machine" is referring to the bureaucracy, and "intelligence" is referring to all of the information we've been able to discover, both during and after the fact.
•All the back story Epsilon 3, the planet below the B5 station.
•A collection of the medical scannings of the brain patterns of all Babylon 5 cast and crew from 1993 to yesterday morning.
•The thoughts of the living ships as interpreted by humans...
•Some behind-the-scenes from Netter Digital, Foundation Imaging, and the other CGI-related companies about how the CG was created and then evolved over the series, from the point of view of those artists.
•Who made it, why it is on that planet, where the Tribe of Zathras came from and where all that tech from 1,000 years ago originated that turned up in "Crusade" and has been sporadically mentioned in B5.
•A compendium of Fiona Avery's responses as the Great Machine from the original Titan Babylon 5 monthly magazine.
•Zathras takes over publishing and puts out "The wisdom of Zathras as told to him by the Great Machine". There will be two options - regular and deluxe. Regular is an unfolded tri-fold pamphlet. Deluxe the pamphlet is folded (costs 30% more due to labor of folding).
•The amusing places Draal leaves his body when he forgets where it is.
•The complete list of thing Draal told Zathras not to say, to avoid polluting the timeline
•The list of things Zathras knows (knew?) that Draal does not...
•The great thoughts Zathras was thinking while he looked for the One.
•The complete histories of all 10 Zathrases (Zathrathi?), not just the quiet one.
•The details of Zathras' crisis management training.
•The best ways to avoid distracting Draal, to avoid much dying.
•I have a feeling the content will be 42 wonderfully reasoned answers to all the questions that the universe has to offer...
•Either some kind of tech manual - and how it was tried to make the show scientifically as acurate as possible - or a behind-the scenes book about set-building, costume designing, creating CGI and so on.
What DO YOU THINK? Perhaps an Echoes / Artifacts / behind the scenes style book?
“In our last newsletter, we announced the working title of the upcoming book (which has now changed) as "Intelligence from the Great Machine." We asked you to guess the contents, and below are some of our favorite responses. Is one of these correct? Find out next Wednesday, April 9”.
•The communication between Warner Brothers and JMS and crew during production / negotiations for renewal each season...
•The contents of the book will be notes JMS received from the studio and higher ups on what they wanted to see from the show.
•I think "Intelligence from the Great Machine" is going to be talking about all of the studio politics surrounding Babylon 5 and Crusade. I think "great machine" is referring to the bureaucracy, and "intelligence" is referring to all of the information we've been able to discover, both during and after the fact.
•All the back story Epsilon 3, the planet below the B5 station.
•A collection of the medical scannings of the brain patterns of all Babylon 5 cast and crew from 1993 to yesterday morning.
•The thoughts of the living ships as interpreted by humans...
•Some behind-the-scenes from Netter Digital, Foundation Imaging, and the other CGI-related companies about how the CG was created and then evolved over the series, from the point of view of those artists.
•Who made it, why it is on that planet, where the Tribe of Zathras came from and where all that tech from 1,000 years ago originated that turned up in "Crusade" and has been sporadically mentioned in B5.
•A compendium of Fiona Avery's responses as the Great Machine from the original Titan Babylon 5 monthly magazine.
•Zathras takes over publishing and puts out "The wisdom of Zathras as told to him by the Great Machine". There will be two options - regular and deluxe. Regular is an unfolded tri-fold pamphlet. Deluxe the pamphlet is folded (costs 30% more due to labor of folding).
•The amusing places Draal leaves his body when he forgets where it is.
•The complete list of thing Draal told Zathras not to say, to avoid polluting the timeline
•The list of things Zathras knows (knew?) that Draal does not...
•The great thoughts Zathras was thinking while he looked for the One.
•The complete histories of all 10 Zathrases (Zathrathi?), not just the quiet one.
•The details of Zathras' crisis management training.
•The best ways to avoid distracting Draal, to avoid much dying.
•I have a feeling the content will be 42 wonderfully reasoned answers to all the questions that the universe has to offer...
•Either some kind of tech manual - and how it was tried to make the show scientifically as acurate as possible - or a behind-the scenes book about set-building, costume designing, creating CGI and so on.
What DO YOU THINK? Perhaps an Echoes / Artifacts / behind the scenes style book?
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