Of the first six Dell novels published, you will definitely want to first read #4, "Clark's Law," by Jim Mortimore--a great piece of writing set between the episodes "Comes the Inquisitor" and the second season finale, "The Fall of Night," in which Sheridan has to make some choices against President Clark almost as diffcult as those faced by him in "Severed Dreams"; and then the next one to truly commend is Book #6, "Betrayals," by the great S.M Stirling, one of the Big Names in the hard-SF world.
The first novel, "Voices," is also quite commendable, as it deals with the Psi-Corps and Bester in a very interesting way (and I believe it was also referenced in an episode). Overall, the next two also aren't too bad, and they focus upon Ivanova and G'Kar reasonably well. The fifth deals with the First Ones; despite a fewe oddities here and there, it's rather intriguing.
Of course, the galleys for Book #8 should be cast into the flaming, molten-lead lakes of Hell as soon as JMS can make possible, and the author should have rabid, hungry ferrets crammed up his backside and the hole stapled shut behind them. But then, we get to Books #7 and #9, which are simply EXCELLENT by any definition of the word, and who lead into the great Del Rey works that we have now today.
So, it has (with one exception) been a very upward-sloping quality curve with these books, and I look forward personally to more of them in the not-far-off future.
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