The Shadow Within (Babylon 5, Book 7) - Softcover

Cavelos, Jeanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345452186 ISBN 13: 9780345452184

Publisher: Del Rey, 2002

Synopsis

The electrifying space epic continues as Anna and John Sheridan battle deadly foes at opposite ends of the universe.

The dedication of the new Babylon 5 Station is fast approaching, and desperate enemies intend to see it end in catastrophe. The fate of the fledgling space alliance lies in the hands of John Sheridan, newly appointed captain of the spaceship Agamemnon. His orders are to stop the attack. Unless he first gets to the bottom of the near-mutinous behavior of the Agamemnon’s unruly crew, Sheridan and his spaceship will share Babylon 5’s doom.

Time is also running out for his wife Anna, headed to Z’ha’dum aboard the Icarus. Young, beautiful, and brilliant, she was thrilled to be appointed chief science officer of the follow-up mission to this mysterious planet on the edge of the known universe, where artifacts rumored to hold stupendous powers have been discovered. But the offer she could not resist threatens to become a dark destiny she cannot avoid, for an unimaginable horror lies somnolent on Z’ha’dum–and the monstrous consequences of disturbing the sleeping evil will haunt every living thing in the cosmos. . . .

Babylon 5 created by J. Michael Straczynski

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From the Publisher

"They provide an intriguing energy source to draw us in. And here we are. Butwhat I can't figure out is why they would want to hide from us and then attackus. They don't even know us."

As Anna talked, a strange change came over Morden's face. The muscles wentslack, his carefully composed expression melting away.

He reached into the pocket of his jumpsuit, and she realized he was going topull out the PPG. As the PPG came clear of the pocket and began to rise, sheshoved him hard. The gun went off with a reverberating blast. She lost herbalance, heard rocks falling, and then a flash, and she hit the cave floor. Shecovered her head with her arms and tucked her body into a ball. It was likebeing an ant in the center of the bowling pins when God hits a strike.

She was in total blackness. She groped for her light, and shone it toward whereMorden had been standing. He looked as if he had been picked up and thrown atthe cave wall. He was twisted up against it on his side, the jumpsuit over hischest fluttering with quick, shallow breaths. His right hand still gripped thePPG...

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About the Author

Jeanne Cavelos began her professional life as an astrophysicist, working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Her love of science fiction sent her into a career in publishing. She became a senior editor at Dell Publishing, where she ran the science fiction/fantasy program and created the Abyss horror line, for which she won the World Fantasy Award. A few years ago, Jeanne left New York to pursue her own writing career. She is the author of The Science of Star Wars, The Science of The X-Files, and the Babylon 5 novels Casting Shadows, Summoning Light, and Invoking Darkness. Jeanne is also the director of Odyssey, an annual summer workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. You can visit her Web site at www.sff.net/people/jcavelos or contact her at jcavelos@sff.net.

J. Michael Straczynski is one of the most prolific and highly regarded writers currently working in the television industry. In 1995, he was selected by Newsweek as one of their Fifty for the Future, described as innovators who will shape our lives as we move into the twenty-first century. His work spans every conceivable genre–historical dramas, literary adaptations, mystery series, cop shows, anthology series, and science fiction. He writes ten hours a day, seven days a week, except for his birthday, New Year’s Day, and Christmas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0345452186
• ISBN 13: 9780345452184
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272