Sliders

by Brad Linaweaver

This title aimed at the sci-fi fan and TV viewer -- the Trekkie, broadly defined -- serves as a tie-in to the hit TV series -- 22 new episodes just commissioned by the Sci-Fi Channel -- and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575000539
• ISBN13: 9781575000534
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: TV Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

great

i loved it, i used to watch the episodes on the si-fi chanel all the time, i was addicted to it. i been looking all over for the episodes in dvd but i can't find them i guess they never came out; i whish they did because i would buy the whole collecion. i liked the show ever since it started, and then when kari whurer started in it i liked it even more.

Delicious!

if you are a fan of the Sliders television show I highly recommend this book. If you are a social studies or science teacher I highly recommend this book. If you have ever considered how the changing of one minor detail might completely alter civilization this book is for you. Although, the series in action I will admit is of course better for now this is the best I can do to enjoy it. Being as it was canceled. It was probably best that it was canceled though, because man, the series had really started to (...)! Actually, pretty much the moment Sabrina Lloyd left the show was (...). That doesn't matter though for this book, because it only covers seasons one through three which are truly "the classic episodes."

Great book - for mavins and slide-curious dilettantes alike!

Very satisfying and emminently accessible is this episode guide written by Brad Linaweaver... an actual writer who makes a living stringing words of fiction together into a coherent narrative. For a change!Linaweaver romps through the show like an eager puppy, picking up scents that most would overlook, leading us readers on a wild hunt, and occasionally even marking his territory (as all working hounds do), letting his own wonderfully bizarre opinions splatter across the page.It's a hell of a read. Very highly recommended.

Inside look at original creators and cast

"Classic Trek" writers cover stories in the original series, not Picard, Janeway, Cisko and Quark's Bar. Similarly, Linaweaver looks at creators and cast of the first few seasons when Sabrina Lloyd and the guy who played Professor Arturo were regulars. This is the book to read if you want first-hand interviews with the show's inner circle and not a bunch of unfounded rumors on fan web sites. I remember watching the first episode (the first slide and Red Dawn Earth events) and being amazed how something so politically incorrect managed to slip by the usual knee-jerk phoney liberals in Hollywood. Linaweaver explores this unusual situation with the original producer, and you'll find as you read the interviews that it was no accident. Frank Zappa wanted to do a show when he was alive that showed the different consequences of policies and the SLIDERS concept is the perfect vehicle for this. I don't mind the Kromaggs, dinosaurs, weird fire aliens and the sexy new actress, but unfortunately they've lightened up the political scenarios in the process, and in my opinion have lost some of the unique opportunities of the show. So I can only think about "what might have been" if the originators had not lost control. Read all about from the players themselves only in this episode guide.

Classic Sliders -- Not Caffeine Free Diet Sliders

Once upon a time there was a TV series called Sliders, produced by Tracy Torme, son of crooner Mel Torme. Tracy tried to do something on television which is always great while it lasts, but usually doesn't last long: produce a TV show smarter than its viewers. Joe Straczynski must have a deal with the devil because Babylon 5 managed to run 5 years with writing as good as any classic science fiction by Heinlein, Asimov, or Clarke. Torme wasn't as lucky. He managed only to get a couple of seasons of his masterpiece out before the bean-counters and the ratings watchers figured out they could get better ratings for this show by dumbing it down. Brad Linaweaver reminds of why the first few seasons of Sliders is a TV event worth remembering in the same breath with Babylon 5, The Prisoner, and those few TV shows which take politics seriously -- which means doing on TV what Orwell, H.G. Wells, and Heinlein did on paper. He didn't kiss up to the Wag-the-Dog Hollywood establishment, but instead used the science fiction genre for what it does best: comment on the present human condition by showing us the unlived alternatives. Linaweaver's episode guide takes this show's politics seriously and sympathetically. Unfortunately, this means that both Linaweaver and Torme himself are bound to be attacked by those who either are bored by politics completely, don't have the wit to appreciate genius when they see it, or are simply hostile to the libertarian messages floated in a sea of maudlin, predictable politics-of-the-pragmatic. I resent the new Sliders because without Quinn having Professor Arturo to bounce his genius back and forth against, like the episode where intellectuals were treated like NBA stars, the character of Quinn has devolved into a whiner. Brad Linaweaver understands the forces at work behind the scenes and, amazingly, has managed to say what needs to be said about this show without corporate censorship. Must reading for any intelligent Sliders aficionado.