{"id":102,"date":"2005-09-13T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/?p=102"},"modified":"2005-09-13T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T03:31:00","slug":"now-thats-a-lot-of-babylon-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2005\/09\/13\/now-thats-a-lot-of-babylon-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Now *that’s* a lot of Babylon 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today jms<\/a> announced that the B5 scripts he wrote were going to be made available in book form.<\/p>\n

All of them.<\/p>\n

All 91 Babylon 5 scripts that I wrote are going to be made available
\nthrough an independent publishing firm in trade paperback form. We’re
\nstill working out the final details in terms of how to put the scripts
\ntogether, but right now the plan is to do 7 scripts per book, each
\nvolume released every two weeks or so, at a cost of about $29 per
\nvolume if ordered in the first week or so it comes online) or $39 per
\nfor those who buy later. That’s four bucks per script if purchased
\nearly, about five per script if published later…which saves fans a
\nHUGE amount of money.<\/p>\n

There will be 14 volumes in all, each again containing 7 scripts AND
\nnewly written introductions and commentaries about each episode that
\nare thus far averaging about 30 pages per book, telling some of the
\nbehind-the-scenes stories that have never been told before (and some
\nthat have), talking about the writing process, how the arc was created
\nand maintained, anectodes about cast and crew, what went into the
\nstories…enough so that at the end, at 30 pages over 14 volumes you
\nget about 420 pages of new material on the making of B5…a book unto
\nitself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh yeah, and there are going to be alternate scripts and timelines, never before seen
\nphotos and so forth and so on.<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s also going to cost.<\/p>\n

Here, if copies are purchased as the script books first
\ncome online, the full set would cost around $420; ifpurchased after
\nthe discount period, we’re talking about $560…which is, again, for
\n15 volumes counting the free one, amounting to nearly FIVE THOUSAND
\nSIX HUNDRED PAGES OF MATERIAL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today jms announced that the B5 scripts he wrote were going to be made available in book form. All of them. All 91 Babylon 5 scripts that I wrote are going to be made available through an independent publishing firm in trade paperback form. We’re still working out the final details in terms of how … Continue reading “Now *that’s* a lot of Babylon 5”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-b5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}