Babylon 5 Update for 8 - 11 - 2019

[alexcat]

I update once every 2 weeks (or so) with fiction, challenges etc. Please feel free to contact me if I you have news or anything you think needs to be featured here. Just send me a PM at alexcat or post it to the update and I’ll include it the next time.

Summer is hot this year – heat waves all over. It’s a good time to stay in and read some B5 fanfiction and do a rewatch! I will post a rewatch schedule this week here and at b5_revisited. I really will this time!!! If any of you are interested in doing a write up for one of the Season 1 episodes, let me know.

Fanfic:
Patron Saint of Stowaways by Anlace (Franklin, Marcus Cole, Gen).
Background Information for “Marks” by allaire mikháil(allaire) (Sinclair/ Catherine Sakai, Sinclair/Garibaldi, Gen).
UPDATED:

BREAKWATER by eusuchia (Franklin/G’kar, Teen and up).
Until the End of Time – Behind the Scenes Remix by allaire mikháil(allaire) (Garibaldi/Sinclair, Mature).
Kansas 2: The Yellow Brick Road by Soledad (St: Voyager Crossover, Teen and up).
The Tenderness of Treason by gin007 (Timov/Londo, T).
Telepath Wolf – season 2 by Healer (Susan/Talia, T, AU).

Fan comic:
***Babylon 6 Episode 3: Debts and Debtors by Jameson9101322 (Various, unrated). A new chapter begins. Chapter 50 is up now.
Babylon 6 Episode 2: The Telepath War by Jameson9101322 (Various, Gen). This comic is completed. Check it out! It’s a good story.

Fanart:
I only display a sampling of the latest from the artists. Please check out their pages at Deviant Art.
Babylon 5 by <https://www.deviantart.com/tostyfrosty>Tostyfrosty.
Minbari by Samwise the Awesome.

News:
***Babylon 5: 5 Best (and 5 Worst) Episodes.
***JMS, Mike Deodato Jr. Team for 'The Resistance' Comic.
*Babylon 5: 10 details about the main Characters Everyone Missed
*10 Fastest Ships in the Universe, Ranked
*5 Things Babylon 5 Did That Changed Science Fiction Forever


Communities and members:
*** I will post a rewatch schedule this week here and at b5_revisited. If any of you are interested in doing a write up for one of the Season 1 episodes, let me know.
* There is a Babylon 5 Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NAK4ywU with lots of chat about B5 and such.
*Babylon 5 Facebook Page: Come join us and start a conversation.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643505239288376/
Here is a list our communities at Dreamwidth - all posts are mirrored at from LJ to DW:
Babylon 5 Revisited
Babylon 5 Love
Universe Today
*NOTE* All announcements are posted at the mirror Dreamwidth communities as well.

Books:
Here is the cover: .
Get it at Amazon.
You can also buy the Audible version there OR the Cd version with Peter Jurasik reading it.
Here are links to a few reviews:
New York Tines: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/books/becoming-superman-j-michael-straczynski.html
Washington Post: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/books/becoming-superman-j-michael-straczynski.html
The A.V. Club: https://aux.avclub.com/becoming-superman-is-both-a-gruesome-and-mundane-portra-1836296383

Fun things:

If you have Facebook, ‘like’
***The Zocalo Today is a great place to read news and fun stuff from fans.***
***Babylon 5 Facebook Group is a fan group. It is quite busy, with over 17,000 members.***
***I have started a new Babylon 5 page at Facebook and we are eager to get new members.
Babylon 5 Fans and Friends is a new group. Come join us!

** August Birthdays**
Martin Sheen - August 3
Daneil Dae Kim - August 4
Claudia Christian - August 10
Stephen Austin - August 11
Tim Earls - August 15
Nancy Tarczynski - August 16
Skip Beaudine - August 26

Send us your news~!