JMS Autobiography-"Becoming Superman" - NO Spoilers!

[Jan]

JMS is posting chapter titles. Here are the first:

Chapter titles given in sequential order:
(Intro by Neil Gaiman)
We Were Told
Strange Relations
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
Death As a Lifestyle
Pigeon Dinner With a Slice of Watermelon T
he First One's Always Free
The Face Behind the Mask
The Wind Took Away His Name

[Jan]

Next set of chapter titles. And upcoming news on the audio book!

@straczynski

More chapter titles from the autobiography, and coming later today: an announcement about who will be doing the audio book!
Being Invisible
Targets of Opportunity
Patricide by Proxy
Discovering Words, Worlds and Estrogen
The God Thing
The Weed of Evil Bears Strange Fruit

[Jan]

Oh, this is wonderful news!!

@straczynski
And now, to answer the question everyone's been asking since the autobiography was announced, "Who's doing the audiobook?" I can at last announce that the book will be brought to life by none other than the amazing, the multi-talented
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Peter Jurasik!

[babylonlurker]

Excellent choice, indeed !

[Jan]

I got the ARC today. I'm on page 67. This is mind-boggling. And that's all I'll say right now. Not planning on posting any spoiler, don't worry.

[Jan]

More chapter headings from the upcoming autobiography:
The God Thing, Redux
Blood in the Street
When the Light at the End of the Tunnel Isn't a Train (For a Change)
The Big Con
God, Death and Harlan Ellison
An Unexpected Journey to Toon Town
Who Ya Gonna Call?

And I asked a question:

[Hypatia]

I can't recall if this was mentioned on earlier pages, but the audiobook is narrated by Peter Jurasik. I just pre-ordered the audiobook.

[phazedout]

i have made a request of Essi, since my birthday is 6 days after it is released *and* she works in a freaking book store, I've asked her to buy it as my present this year.

[Jan]

I've posted a review on Goodreads (Amazon doesn't allow them since it's not available yet. Spoiler-free.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho..._review_page=1

I would imagine it would be obvious but given the chorus of folks wanting Peter J. to read the book in Londo-voice, it's worth pointing out that this is *not* a book about Babylon 5. It's about the path he took to become the person who could create and make the show.

[B5-Stefan]

I would imagine it would be obvious but given the chorus of folks wanting Peter J. to read the book in Londo-voice, it's worth pointing out that this is *not* a book about Babylon 5. It's about the path he took to become the person who could create and make the show.

..and obviously other work and other shows.
And *he* isn't PJ but JMS (my comment only for the dumb).
B5-Stefan

[Jan]

JMS posted his author pic that will show on the book jacket and a poster named Rob Pivarnik meme-ified it.

[Jan]

Only available to folks in the US, I'm afraid, but here's a chance to win a copy of the ARC of JMS' autobiography:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...vuRVb7vPlT2E94

[sftv]

I just got my hands on an ARC. Just three chapters in and Wow!

[Jan]

I just got my hands on an ARC. Just three chapters in and Wow!

Glad you got it! It's pretty intense in places despite the fact that he's taken a fairly straigthforward way of writing about what happened. For me one of the amazing parts is how aware he was at such a young age.

[Looney]

I can't recall if this was mentioned on earlier pages, but the audiobook is narrated by Peter Jurasik. I just pre-ordered the audiobook.

Where did you pre-order it? And wouldn't that be weird for Jurasik to read?! I mean I think it would be strange to read aloud my friend's autobiography. I mean without being sarcastic about it. LOL