Series
Babylon 5
Greg Keyes, Jeanne Cavelos, Peter David, John Vornholt, J. Michael Straczynski, Lois Tilton, Al Sarrantonio, Jim Mortimore, Kathryn M. Drennan, Neal Barrett, Jr., Neil Gaiman & S. M. Stirling · 18 novels · 4 short stories · 1995–2001
Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, Babylon 5: The Gathering, Warner Bros. commissioned the series for production in May 1993 as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). The show premiered in the United States on January 26, 1994, and ran for five 22-episode seasons.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- The Psi Corps Trilogy(4 works)
- The Passing of the Techno-Mages(3 works)
- Omnibus editions(4 editions)
Map
Babylon 5 at the centre, 3 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s15
- 2000s7
Shape
18 novels · 4 short stories
12 authors
reads like:science fictionpolitical intriguespace stationfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 78% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book18 of 22 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendantdarkest
- Casting Shadowsbrightest
- To Dream in the City of Sorrowscalmest
- Voicesmost intense