"I am the LEXX, I am a ten mile long biomechanical dragonfly designed to blow up planets for the Divine Order. My Captain, Security Guard 4th Class Stanley Tweedle stole me, now he and his friends, Kai, a superhuman undead assassin, Zev a love slave who is half cluster lizard, and 790 a robot head, are looking for a new home...." LEXX was a groundbreaking, surreal and subversive space opera that ran four seasons from 1997 to 2002. Innovative with a unique visual sense and production design, it combined Star Trek and Star Wars with the visions of surrealists like Jodorowsky and Bunuel with a dash of Monty Python, and featured cult icons Rutger Hauer, Tim Curry and Malcolm McDowell as guest stars. The story behind this Canadian/German co-production was as wild and unpredictable as anything that went up onscreen, as Indy film makers, American entertainment giants, renegade artists, supercomputers, international financing and cultural nationalism collided like pinballs to produce some of the strangest science fiction ever to reach the air. This book is the story of LEXX both onscreen and offstage, and the unique personalities that brought it into being.

D.G. Valdron is a reclusive Canadian writer, hiding out in the Manitoba wilderness. Like many shy woodland creatures, such as the grizzly bear, he is more afraid of you than you are of him. He is an acknowledged authority on obscure pop culture topics, LEXX, Doctor Who, Fan Films, Cult Television, and Pulp novels,particularly Edgar Rice Burroughs. He also writes Science Fiction and Fantasy. He is the author of such novels as 'The Mermaid's Tale,' 'The Luck,' 'Yongary vs Pulgasari,' 'The New Doctor,' and collections including 'Dawn of Cthulhu,' 'Fall of Atlantis,' 'Giant Monsters Sing Sad Songs,' and 'There Are No Doors in Dark Places.'' He is a prolific wrtier of fiction and non-fiction, specializing in quirky and off the wall material. His style marries breezy familiarity, casual friendliness and razor sharp observation. He can be found on facebook, or at his website where he blogs regularly.

LEXX Unauthorized - The story of Kai, an undead assassin, Zev, a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle, a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head, careening through space together in the LEXX, a planet destroying biological warship shaped like a dragonfly, stolen from the malevolent Divine Order.

LEXX was one of the strangest and most wildly surreal space operas ever conceived, owing as much to Luis Bunuel and Alejandro Jodorowsky as to to Star Trek and Star Wars. It was unique and unforgettable, mixing black comedy and absurdism with epic drama, and an astonishing visual sense. Featured guest stars for the first season included cult icons Rutger Hauer, Malcolm McDowell and Tim Curry.

Backstage, the story of the creation of the series was even more extraordinary, a tale of a struggling regional Atlantic film maker, renegade artists, American corporate takeovers, Canadian cultural nationalism, German entrepreneurs and new computer generated imagery technologies intersecting in wildly unpredictable ways, to give birth to the show.

The product of years of research and dozens of interviews, this is a 'must buy' for any fan of the show itself or of science fiction movies television generally, and an eye opening insight into film and television production, especially Canadian and international productions, and the most exotic cult series ever.