Last Dangerous Visions and the Harlan & Susan Ellison Memorial Library

[Jan]

Oh, please - I beg of you - DON'T! I don't 'speak' emoji or .gif and get offa my lawn!

For those who might be interested, JMS has made one of his Patreon posts public. It's a missing story from "Becoming Superman":

https://www.patreon.com/posts/39409376?fbc...

[Jan]

I did note a bit of a jump in the number of Patrons when the video was posted so you may be right. Or it could be a late bump from the Last Dangerous Visions news.

I was glad to see that you had an appropriate image to use over there, Looney. I don't think I'd recognize you without the...

[Jan]

Last night JMS uploaded the first of his reaction/commentary videos for "The Parliament of Dreams" on Patreon. At some point these may be made public, I'm not sure. But it was a lot of fun. One needs to sync a second screen to watch the episode as JMS does due to broadcasting rules on YouTube....

[Jan]

It really was good! Somehow JMS managed to seem to be right there watching with us. I'm not sure if eventually JMS might make these public but it would be nice.
(And Looney....there's a Patreon thread pinned in General Discussions) ...

[Jan]

Thanks, Dan! Voted!...

[Jan]

"When Babylon 4 reappeared two years ago, Commander Sinclair and I went aboard to evacuate her; crew. While I was there, I had this ... flash; I saw a fire fight here on the station. Something was invading Babylon 5. We were putting up a good fight ... but we were losing. Bad."...

[Jan]

Keeping in mind that I've only watched one of the new episodes, but hearing about it various places online, the only way I can describe this 'remaster' is "chaotic". First and foremost, NO publicity at all. Second, at least on Prime a bunch of the episodes were mis-titled so that you'd think...

[Jan]

Don't intimidate, Looney, just bid REALLY high, that's all it'll take and you and I will both be happy!...

[Jan]

No word on them being released on DVD so far. But remember, this has all been a 'stealth promotion' (read: NO promotion) happening. Nobody seemed to know anything about it until it started appearing with 'remastered' banners. And it's been...shall we say, haphazard. In addition to there not being...

[Jan]

Yes, I'm at it again. Watches (two types) journal, B5-20 messenger bag, quote gear bag, and...something else... Oh, yeah,

A Narn Background Actor Mask!!

Tomorrow I may be listing a couple of Minbari items. Stay tuned, bid high and bid often!!

https://www....

[Jan]

I checked the comparison video that JMS posted and the colors are *vastly* more vivid and clear. I'll wait a while before deciding what to do about re-buying it but it's a real improvement....

[Jan]

It's very attractive. But to me, it looks more like a cozy mystery than anything. Not sure that fits the description.

ETA: Tweet from this morning:
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[Jan]

While I hate to lower my chances of getting one of these, Goodreads is doing a giveaway of 50 Advance Reading Copies of "Together We Will Go".
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/s...her-we-will-go...

[Jan]

So - a couple of things tonight regarding licensing.

JMS said that it would be required for WB to contact him and the people making the show if anything were being done.


And when I asked about whether he could veto a license:



ETA: for Tom Smith/B5...

[Jan]

This would be worth passing along just for the 'fuckpocalypse' part!

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[Jan]

So a number of people are aware that JMS was posting 'data packets' this week on Twitter and Facebook. They spelled out:

The
Last
Dangerous
Visions
and the fifth packet said that it is going to be completed and ready to send to publishers in the spring of 2021 and...

[Jan]

Wow, nice! Thanks for sharing.