I grew up in a home where the television was rarely on, and for that reason television has never really held me the way holds some people. I get bored with shows quickly, and I tend not to finish series. So I’m not really sure why Babylon 5 caught me the way it did, or why it held me despite long gaps between episodes and, for a time, considerable uncertainty about its ultimate fate. But there has never been anything else like it in my opinion and I have yet to see it surpassed. For those of us who followed the series as it first played through on television, it was a communal experience and its creator was a bigger star than any of the actors or other talented people who brought it to life. So much of it really was the work of this one man, and it was so obviously beloved of everyone who was involved with it, that I was interested to read about how it all came about. I was less interested, initially, in the author’s background story, but people’s lives are always interesting when you take the time to learn about them, and JMS is an exceptionally good writer. Well worth reading.