Re: b5 books \"shadow within\" and \"to dream...\"
Tim Fleming at the "Crusade for
Crusade" website posted an interesting tidbit regarding the books recently:
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Heather and I attended the annual Shore Leave Science fiction convention in Baltimore just this weekend. At this convention we sat in on a presentation by an assistant editor of Del Rey books. She had some interesting information concerning
B5. First of all, Del Rey still believes in
B5 as a property. This is why they purchased the rights to the first nine books. She then proceeded to show the new cover art for Jeane Cavelos's
The Shadow Within. This book serves as sort of a prequel to the technomage trilogy.
She then mentioned that due to a screw up with the original publication of
The Shadow Within manuscript, this new edition will feature some material that was NOT in the original. So it looks like a special edition of
The Shadow Within. She also mentioned that Kathryn Drennan's
To Dream in the City of Sorrows will be coming out summer of next year...
... Now on to more interesting matters. She mentioned that Del Rey has another B5 project in the works . However, she was not at liberty to discuss it. This is great news for B5 fans (and boy, do we need it).
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Tim went on to speculate that the new project is the long-rumored short-story anthology, but I'm dubious. Steve Saffel of Del Rey only recently denied that
any B5 projects were in the works, and specifically mentioned difficulties
vis a vis the short story collection - not only would arrangements have to be worked out with all the authors of the published stories, but new stories would be needed from writers like JMS and Neil Gaimin (both of whom are very busy with other things) to fill the collection out to book length. Finally a new licensing deal would have to be struck with Warner Bros., since the present one does not cover the short stories. I'd be very suprised if all of this were cleared up in just a couple of weeks.
Of course, it may just be the Del Rey has decided to seriously
pursue the anthology idea, and is now
talking to all the people who would have to be involved. Another possibility is some kind of "history of
B5" or behind-the-scenes book. JMS mentioned a project that Fiona Avery was working on in the
B5 archive nearly two years ago. He denied that it had anything to do with prepping extra materials for the eventual DVDs, but didn't let on what it
was. Fiona was no more forthcoming on her own website, where it was also mentioned in passing. So I wonder if it might not be some kind of non-fiction book, currently wending its way through the Random House/Del Rey labirynth. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
Either way it would be nice to have something new.
Regards,
Joe
