IS THIS A LIMITED-EDITION SERIES?
Yes. At the request of fans, the series will be available into 2013 so that everyone has time to complete their collections. We will email the fans 3 months before the series goes out-of-print so everyone has plenty of notice.

WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY "HAND-SIGNED?"
We mean that the B5 star literally signed each book. It is not a printed signature; it is a Sharpie-pen-in-the-hand-of-the-star signature.

WHAT IS AN "INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT?"
It is a word-for-word transcription of everything that was said in an interview by both the interviewer and the person being interviewed. It is the source material for a printed interview. In this series, you'll read the question asked and the entire reponse that was given.

WHERE DID THESE INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS COME FROM?
Journalist Joe Nazzaro, who started interviewing the Babylon 5 cast and crew in 1992 before the pilot aired and continued through the conclusion of the series and subsequent television movies (including the 2007 DVD release Babylon 5: The Lost Tales).

THIS SERIES HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "HOLOGRAPHIC." WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
When B5 started shooting, a crew member remarked to J. Michael Straczynski that the show was "holographic" because each subsequent script shed new light on all the preceding scripts.

The same principle applies here. Though presented in chronological order, the interview transcripts in this series were conducted at different times, with different people, BUT on the same subjects. Therefore, you get multiple perspectives on the episodes, people and events. Each interview will "shed new light on all the preceding" interviews.

WHAT WILL I LEARN FROM THIS SERIES IF I ALREADY HAVE THE JMS SCRIPT BOOKS?
The JMS 15-Volume Limited-Edition Script Series contained 800+ pages of introductions to his scripts that detailed his perspective on events. Echoes of All Our Conversations is the flip-side, featuring 2,100+ pages of detail told by more than 50 cast and crew.

ARE THERE SCRIPTS IN THESE VOLUMES?
There are no scripts in any of these volumes. This series is strictly a collection of transcripts of "as-it-happened" interviews, never-before-seen photographs, documents and artwork.

PLEASE DEFINE EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN BY "LIMITED EDITION."
These books will never, ever be available again. This compilation under a different title will never, ever be available again. Really. Name any ploy used by an unscrupulous "limited edition" publisher and know that we will not do that.

That said, it is probable some of the content will be available somewhere else, someday, separately. "Separately" is the key word here. For example, one of the interviews could be republished in another book.

WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE A VOLUME? WHAT IS YOUR REFUND POLICY?
You can return it for a 100% refund. And we mean 100%. You will be refunded (1) what you paid, (2) shipping charges to receive it and (3) the cost to return it. This policy extends to international customers as well. Just email us your order number at help@b5books.com.

WHAT PART OF THE BABYLON 5 PRODUCTION TIME LINE DOES THIS SERIES COVER?
The interviews, which are mostly presented in chronological order, begin a few months after The Gathering (the pilot) was shot in the summer of 1992, and conclude just prior to the DVD release of The Lost Tales in 2007. Fifteen years of as-it-happened interviews chronicling Babylon 5's history.

WOULD YOU EVER MAKE THIS SERIES AND SIMILAR RELEASES AVAILABLE AS E-BOOKS?
No. Our contract does not include e-releases. We realize this sounds old-fashioned in the age of Kindles and tablets, but our publishing agreement was signed 2 years before the Kindle existed.

WHAT IS THE FULL QUOTE THAT CONTAINS THE PHRASE "ECHOES OF ALL OUR CONVERSATIONS?"
G'Kar, "Objects in Motion," Season 5, Episode 21:
I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us...and a part of us remains. Go anywhere in this station, when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls, for as long as this place remains.

WHY DO YOU INCLUDE AN AUDIO CD INSTEAD OF AN MP3?
To preserve audio quality. The masters of these recordings are mediocre. They have been remixed by a top-rate engineer to enhance the clarity of the voices. Transfering them to audio CD -- which is lossless -- means you get to hear all the nuances that would be lost in the MP3 format, including the sound of a modem dialing up. (How 1997!)

WHO CONDUCTED THESE INTERVIEWS?
Joe Nazzaro, the legendary SF journalist. These cast-and-crew interviews occurred "as it happened," so they are free from any revisionism. These are the COMPLETE TRANSCRIPTS of the entire interviews, not the articles Nazzaro wrote for various magazines in the 1990s. Uncut. Uncensored. Nothing held back.

Editor's notes are included throughout the book describing what was happening in the Babylon 5 production timeline at the time of each interview. This gives each question and response context.

The transcripts are mostly printed in chronological order, giving you the complete behind-the-scenes history of Babylon 5 with a beginning, middle and end.

HOW MUCH OF JOE NAZZARO'S INTERVIEW MATERIAL IN THESE BOOKS WAS PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED?
At least 75% was unpublished. For example, the first time he interviewed story editor Larry DiTillio (who is extremely frank, by the way), that interview was about 26,000 words. Only three or four thousand words ever appeared in print. In volume 1 you get to read the entire 26,000 words, which means that 85% had never been seen before.

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL FOR SUCH A POPULAR SHOW?
From Joe Nazzaro: "Keep in mind that most genre magazines weren't all that interested in covering B5 until season three, which is when everybody jumped aboard. Before that, it was a very tough sell. And secondly, even if a magazine wanted to run a piece, it was next to impossible to get photos from Warner Bros., who were just useless. So if a magazine wanted to run, say, a four-page article, and they only got three photos (many of which had to be used and reused), that four-page story suddenly became only two pages. So all of this material, particularly pre-season three, really started to pile up."

WHAT MAKES THE INCLUDED AUDIO CD NOTEWORTHY?
Fans are actually going to be able to listen to interviews that NOBODY but Joe Nazzaro has ever heard. These are additional interviews that do not appear in the print volumes; they're added value. About these Joe Nazzaro remarked, "There is one in particular that is one of the coolest B5 interviews I EVER did. It was recorded in 1996 and is included with Volume 3."

HOW DID THE B5 BOOKS TEAM GET THESE INTERVIEWS?
We approached Joe Nazzaro and came to an agreement for the entire archive of 200+ interviews.

WHY CAN'T I FIND THESE INTERVIEWS IN PRINT?
According to Joe Nazzaro, "Visual Imagination, who published Starburst and TV Zone among others, went out of business some years ago. Starlog Press, who refused to print any B5 interviews for many years, is also out of business as a magazine publisher and their warehouse burned down several years ago, virtually wiping out every back issue of Starlog and Fangoria they had in storage. And all of those interviews were done before the advent of the Internet, so this is probably fans' first chance to read most of this material."

WHAT IS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IF I HAVE A QUESTION OR COMMENT?
help@b5books.com
We personally respond to all emails.