Written by J. Gregory Keyes
Release date: February 1999
ISBN: 0345427165

Bester rises through the ranks of the Psi Corps.

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JMS Speaks

• I think book 2 is terrific as well, maybe in some ways better than 1 because though it's not as epic, it really makes the Psi Corps come alive in some nifty ways.

  I haven't seen 3 yet, but it should be a real kick.

  The technomage trilogy, at this point, may work out to be my favorite, given how much of the B5 storyline it interweaves.

• Why should we buy a book to learn about things that should have been covered in the series?

  1) The B5 series was never about the Psi Corps, it was about the station and the people who live there.

  2) Should the show have told everything there was about IPX, the Psi Corps, EarthDome, and all of the various institutions involved? Show me any series ever created that can do that.

  3) The Psi Corps books cover over a hundred years of history, and Bester's final fate comes years after the events of the B5 storyline. There is NO WAY to include all of that in any one series. You are asking the impossible, and complaining because we cannot do what simply cannot be done by any series, ever, anywhere, ever created.