Greg Smith said:
nitflegal said:
You're right. For some reason, I forget the three trilogies that he did have oversight over and think only of the initial series, of which one book is fully approved and one book is prtailly approved.
Matt
I've recently read book 8 and it states that it was based on an idea by JMS yet he does not consider it canon?
The comic story that had Garibaldi and Sheridan on Mars seeing the Shadow Ship was an essential part of the continuity (and co-written by him IIRC), yet he does not consider it canon?
I think maybe he's a little egomaniacal where B5 is concerned. (Don't you hate it when you find out that your idols are only human?)
Pretty soon it will be - only the JMS episodes are canon (except where the network demanded I include stuff, those bits aren't).
I think the Problems with Dell books 1-6 + 8 is not so much that they aren't canon it's they aren't completely Canon or at the ver least they are more canon than thee afore mentioned books. I guess thats silly doesn't it but that seems to be the standard which most B5 fans use.
Also Heres what what JMS has to say about Book 8
"
> So my question is: Is the placement of this story in error, or is
> the characterization just really out of sync with the series? Or
> is this criticism entirely unjustified from your point of view?
No, I've said that while this one is okay, the characterization
is off, and it tries 'way too hard to be funny, ignoring the notion
that if everything is funny then *nothing* is funny. Unfortunately, I
didn't get the actual manuscript until it was too late to do anything
short of commissioning a full rewrite, which they wouldn't do.
Anyway...as I said, it's okay. But for my money, the Anna
Sheridan and Jeffrey Sinclair books are the two real gems of this
batch.
jms
"
http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-2738&query=Personal%20Agendas
As for Getting the Book in the US its a matter of money if sells well in the UK someone will find a way to sell it in the US. Ah greed is good.