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Books : Science Fiction & Fantasy : Authors, A-Z : K : Keyes, J. Gregory
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This latest instalment of the Babylon 5 series is the beginning of a trilogy that explores the origins of the infamous Psi Corps and the interrelationship with the future and the past origins of earth in the 21st century.Greg Keyes has caught the flavour and action-packed themes of the Babylon 5 series co- authors Jane Killick, John Vornholt, and others, that allows for the combination of future societies and their own dilemmas with current 20th-century political and social trends that are blended into a thought provoking and sinister analogy on man's own worst enemy--mankind itself.
The Psi Corps is a world government agency that has been developed to organise and control the newly emerged but enviable part of the world's population that enjoys various degrees of telepathic powers. The Corps, its leaders and the multi- cultural earth government have an agenda that sets off fractions within the telepathic community that results in a twisting and surprising plot that sets the scene for the next few centuries of earth history.
Greg Keyes writes well and his descriptions of the human suffering and emotional traumas encountered by all who have contact with the Psi cops and their international band of informants is both engrossing and thought provoking. The future can often be based in the past and the build up to the situations encountered by the characters has a firm basis on recent political and social history. The next instalment of this trilogy should set the pace for a continued and interesting exploration into the future and man's relationships not only with the unknown but also with himself. -- Brian Reinker
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Babylon 5 is a rarity among SF TV series in having a thoroughly worked-out future history, even if parts of that history are only hinted at on TV. Which is where this novel comes in. Based on an original outline by series creator J. Michael Straczynski and following Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps, it is the second novel of a trilogy detailing the history of the Psi Corps. Yet it is sufficiently self-contained to be accessible to readers unfamiliar with B5.The book chronicles the life of the Psi Corp Alfred Bester from boyhood to the dramatic events which will first take him to the eponymous space station. As befits the show, Deadly Relations is complex and well characterised, aware of SF history and filled with fascinating background detail. J. Gregory Keyes portrays Bester's paradoxical nature: a man haunted and lonely, able to read the thoughts of others and capable of betraying those closest to him out of a sense of duty to the greater good. A sinister, ruthless figure becomes a sympathetic, almost tragic anti-hero as the book ranges from Earth to the Beta Colony and Mars.
The fictional Alfred Bester had a real life namesake, the author of several major SF novels. These include the still extraordinary 1953 thriller of murder and psychic detection to which Deadly Relations pays due homage. If you enjoy B5 try The Demolished Man by the original Alfred Bester. It's a genuine SF classic. --Gary S. Dalkin
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This sequel to The Waterborn doesn't stand alone. Together these two books make a complete adventure; they're exciting, absorbing reading. Hezhi and Perkar cannot easily resolve their respective personal, magical and supernatural problems, and the Blackgod, Karak, has his own plans for them as well. Their battle with the Rivergod is not over and the resulting conflict on every level wracks the princess and her hero, straining their friendship and alliances with everyone. They learn to make decisions, not on impulse, but knowing the costs of their choices and accepting them.
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This sequel to The Waterborn doesn't stand alone. Together these two books make a complete adventure; they're exciting, absorbing reading. Hezhi and Perkar cannot easily resolve their respective personal, magical and supernatural problems, and the Blackgod, Karak, has his own plans for them as well. Their battle with the Rivergod is not over and the resulting conflict on every level wracks the princess and her hero, straining their friendship and alliances with everyone. They learn to make decisions, not on impulse, but knowing the costs of their choices and accepting them.