Introduction		The Babylon Five Parallel Universe			Synopsis and characters
		Volume 3 - A Line in the Sand
Volume 2 - The Death of Flesh, the Death of Dreams					Volume 4 - A Future, Born in Pain
Volume 1 -   The Other Half of my Soul		A Dark, Distorted Mirror by Gareth Williams				Volume 5 - Among the Stars, like Giants

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This site is the home of a five-volume series of novels which forms a dark "mirror universe" to the television show Babylon 5.  The familiar characters are all there, but with a difference.  Ten years before the story opens a single, pivotal event occurred differently....

.... And history changed.  Destiny faded.  All that was, and is, and yet may be was altered; irrevocably, eternally, forever.

And twelve years ago, as history changed, the two Vorlons in Dukhat's secret chamber, who once had been called the future, realised in that one, fateful moment, that the future they knew now belonged elsewhere, and a new future was theirs.

And the seeds of a bargain were struck.

(Chapter 2, The One and the Nine)

What was the event?  And what was the bargain?  Well, for that you'll have to read the story....

What the critics say:

Be warned.  Each of the five portrait links above leads to a long novel.  This is a hefty read.  Each volume has ended up longer than the one before it, and the final tally comes out at:

So.... are you sitting comfortably?  Then follow the links at the top of the page.

More background information can be found in the Introduction.  For current information on the progress of the writing, click here, or even better, join the discussion group (see below).

This story was originally published in the B5 Creative Works Archive and in the John and Delenn Storybook (now being recreated at JumpNow).  The first volume won the "Best Alternate Universe" category in the latter's 1997 Storybook Awards.  A selection of stories from volumes 1-4 won a special judges' award in the SF writing competition at Redemption 2001.

A discussion group has been set up to allow readers to discuss the Mirror Universe among themselves.  Click on the link above to access the home page, or sign up using the form on the right.  The discussion group is being administered by Eric Gillespie Jr.

A Russian translation is available at the site of the Russian B5 magazine Babylosha, currently working its way through volume 3.  There is also a German translation, still on volume 1 but progressing steadily.  The text is also available in an ebook edition (in English!).

This site has had  readers since 8th April 1999 - or maybe it's just one person who has visited  times!  However many of you there are out there, enjoy the story.

Editor and publisher:  Morag G. Kerr (Morag_Kerr@CompuServe.com)	Author:  Gareth D. Williams (Yrwyddfa@lwa97.fsnet.co.uk)
Characters and situations of Babylon Five © J. Michael Straczynski and Warner Bros. Inc., 1993-1998. Original story © Gareth D. Williams, 1997-2003.
URL: http://www.b5-dark-mirror.demon.co.uk Epilogue published Friday 21st February 2003.