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Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is also a playwright, journalist and author of a well-regarded tome on scriptwriting. He was the creator, executive producer and head writer for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5 and Crusade. Straczynski wrote most of the Babylon 5 episodes, notably an unbroken 59-episode run including all of the third and fourth seasons. He is also a participant in Usenet and other early computer networks, interacting with fans through various online forums (including GEnie, CompuServe, and America Online) since 1985.
aka JMS, or “Joe”
When I was much younger than I was now, I used to try to stay awake until the early hours of the morning to watch the New Twilight Zone. Because I knew every now and again there would be an absolutely fabulous episode. Something that really moved me and got me thinking. Years later I discovered Babylon 5, Joe Straczynski, and guess two wrote all those New Twilight Zone episodes I fondly remembered?
Well, JMS singlehandedly revived my interest in science fiction at a time when I, as a sci-fi geek was being let down by my former favourites of the spaceship-opera variety, Star Wars and Star Trek.
...Then along came Babylon 5.
And of course, as any fan of this revolutionary 5-year-story-arc show, I started learning about the behind-the-scenes difficulty JMS had, not only just bringing his story to life (After pitching it to Paramount, the creators of Star Trek they said “No, thanks” and then co-incidentally soon came up with a show called “Star Trek: Deep Space 9”) but keeping it alive.
One of the ultimate themes of B5 and of JMS’s personal odyssey with the show is that faith manages.
I learnt this lesson from JMS’s example. I then set out to tell a story of my own, a science fiction tale that had been trying to escape my imagination for a very long time.
The Unearthing, the first volume of that tale, has just been published.
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