Blake's 7 - The Liberator Chronicles
Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles • Book 6
by Peter Anghelides, Steve Lyons, Mark Wright, Cavan Scott, Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Sally Knyvette, Steven Pacey
Why You'll Love This
Three untold survival stories — Blake, Jenna, and the crew — finally fill in the gaps the original series left deliberately dark.
- Great if you want: canonical closure on characters the original series abandoned mid-story
- The experience: tightly plotted, character-driven vignettes — lean and purposeful throughout
- The writing: multiple authors keep distinct character voices sharp and surprisingly consistent
- Skip if: you're unfamiliar with Blake's 7 — context is everything here
About This Book
The Galactic War has left the Liberator crew scattered and searching — Blake missing, Jenna gone, and the survivors piecing together a future from the wreckage of their cause. This volume of The Liberator Chronicles fills in the silences that the television series left behind, tracing what happened to Blake and Jenna during that pivotal conflict while Avon, Tarrant, and the others press on into danger. These are stories about loyalty tested past its limits, about what fighters do when the fight seems to have swallowed its leaders whole — and about whether any cause survives the people who built it.
What distinguishes this collection is its intimate, character-first construction. Each story is tightly focused, filtering the wider rebellion through a single perspective, which gives the prose an unusual emotional precision. The writing across all three tales trusts its characters deeply — Avon's cold pragmatism, Jenna's fierce self-reliance, Blake's fractured idealism — rather than leaning on spectacle to carry the weight. Contributors including Gareth Thomas and Paul Darrow bring an inside knowledge of these characters that shows on the page, lending even familiar dynamics a satisfying, lived-in texture.