Product Description

A novelization of the second full-length "Babylon 5" television film, this story explores the depths of cyberspace, where a squad of Starfuries makes a discovery that could affect the destiny of the civilized universe. Have they found the threshold to a new age - or a gateway to hell?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1152825 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Peter David is well known for his Star Trek novels, one of which, Imzadi, reached the New York Times bestseller lists. Here, he turns his attention to Babylon 5 and the second TV movie, Thirdspace. This is a straightforward novelization: all the dialogue from the movie is here on the page, and the action follows the film closely. However, David has done a good job of fleshing it out with the inner musings of the characters, and he has introduced a subplot involving two feuding brothers that nicely illuminates the story from a civilian perspective.

The plot involves a mysterious alien artefact that Ivanova finds in hyperspace. It's brought back to the station where Elizabeth Trent, a visiting xenoarchaeologist, powers it up. A malevolent telepathic power immediately begins to take control of the minds of many of the station's residents, and it looks as if Captain Sheridan may have met his match--even the Vorlons were afraid of this creature! David gallops through an exciting story in his usual breezy style, handling the action sequences with some verve and on occasion almost surpassing the original effects with his descriptions of the alien menace. --Liz Sourbut

Customer Reviews

Science Fiction series in brush with Cthulhu Mythos shock!
As the five year run of the Babylon 5 television series drew to a close, a series of made-for-TV movies were released, the second of these was Thirdspace, and this book is the novelisation of that. The movie was pretty good, but the book far outshines it.

Written by Peter David, who has deft touches for Science-Fiction, characterisation and Comedy, this presents what could be the darkest tale of the series.

The story goes that a fighter squadron from Babylon 5, the Diplomatic Space station of the story, discover a giant artifact floating in hyperspace, the dimension used for long distance space travel. This huge object is towed back to Babylon 5, where the crew begin to investigate it, and are soon joined by experts from the Archaeological firm, IPX.

As the story prgresses strange things begin to happen across the station, nightmares, hallucinations and what seems like possesions.

The novel features more of the regular characters than the film, and none are wasted, especially the Minbari, Lennier, whose actions during the concluding entry are so firmly in character it's hilarious.

David keeps up a solid pace, and I managed to get through this book pretty fast without realising the time I'd spent reading it, and his allusions to H.P. Lovecrafts Cthulhu Mythos are not wasted, and are certainly more firm footed than the way things fell together for the movie.

Well worth a read if you're a fan of the series because David carries the feel of the series across to written form extremely well. If you're not a fan, then odds are you'll still enjoy it, but won't get the same enjoyment out of it.