"Finding Serenity": Pretty Damn Hard To Find!

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UPDATED: Thursday, April 28, 2005 14:41
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SOUPCATCHER

Monday, April 18, 2005 7:51 AM

For those who are still trying to find a copy, keep persevering. It's well worth the trouble (at least IMHO).

On a side note, I'm having the hardest time composing a review for Amazon. The two that are up there currently aren't as glowing as I would've expected.

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Next up: Early "Nutcrusher" Jubal and the Firebuggers

FORRESTWOLF

Monday, April 18, 2005 2:49 PM

Well, I'm about halfway through, and I love it! Disagree strongly with various essayists at various points, but that's fine. Great stuff - Mercedes Lackey was really, really insightful, and the Early Jubal stuff was hi-larious.

I'll toss a review up on Amazon - remember, folks - this is how we make Firefly get noticed.

YT

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:27 AM

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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
I'm having the hardest time composing a review for Amazon.

I know what you mean. Haven't felt compelled to review Firefly, since Amazon already has 1,269 of those, and the average customer rating is five stars out of a maximum possible five. But I have written one review of another film, for IMDB. Took me four hours, & countless revisions, to apply close reasoning to my adulation.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Hendrix, "Burning Desire", from "Live @the Filmore East"

FROGGER

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:02 AM

I found it at B&K. I have read the first four and then jumped ahead to the one on Wash and Zoe. I think these writters are fairly well on the money. Even the ones who I disagree with. I appreciate a devils advocate or two, and it is interesting to look at things from another point of view. The one I particularly enjoyed was the train job. I know....don't hurt me....but I watched and fairly well dismissed firefly the first time based on this episode. The essay writer (don't have it with me right now, so i can't remember who) hit the nail on the head for why it didn't reel me in on that first viewing. It comes down to motive. Not to spoil.....so I will try and keep it vague. If a person was to watch train job with out the back ground history and motives of the characters, they (in this case I) could get the wrong impression of why the crew did that they did......vague enough?

Anyway, I am really liking this read. Incidentally, I found mine in the SF/fantasy section. They had stocked it really weird though. We had to dig for it and eventually got have the staff looking before we found it, so don't be afraid to ask for LOTS of help.

frogger

"There's obeying going on RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE!!!"

"It shall be loquacious to a fault!"

EMBERS

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:23 AM

I'm enjoying the book a lot
(I got it right away through Amazon but I was in the middle of another book at the time)
I enjoy reading the essays in the same way I enjoy the commentaries,
anything that might give me an insight,
or a different POV, is always good in my opinion.
It deepens my understanding and appreciation of the show I already love.

KRAD

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:16 AM

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Originally posted by frogger:
The one I particularly enjoyed was the train job. I know....don't hurt me....but I watched and fairly well dismissed firefly the first time based on this episode. The essay writer (don't have it with me right now, so i can't remember who) hit the nail on the head for why it didn't reel me in on that first viewing.

That was my essay. Glad you liked it!

Keith R.A. DeCandido
keith@decandido.net
www.DeCandido.net | www.AlbeShiloh.com
www.livejournal.com/~kradical

FROGGER

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:06 AM

I was really good. You put into words my jumbled rambling thoughts concerning why firefly didn't exactly grab me at first glance!

BTW....who are you and how did you get in this book??????

What do you know?
Who do you know?

LOL...hehehehe........Just kidding!

frogger

"There's obeying going on RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE!!!"

"It shall be loquacious to a fault!"

KRAD

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:25 PM

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BTW....who are you and how did you get in this book??????

Er, well, among many other things, I'm the guy who wrote the novelization of Serenity......

Keith R.A. DeCandido
keith@decandido.net
www.DeCandido.net | www.AlbeShiloh.com
www.livejournal.com/~kradical

FROGGER

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:18 AM

HEHEHEHE....

After I wrote that, I looked up your website. You've written many things apparently. I will have to read more.

Frogger

"There's obeying going on RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE!!!"

"It shall be loquacious to a fault!"

BOBTAYLOR

Thursday, April 21, 2005 12:10 PM

Trust me when I say that you did not have to be the official "Serenity" novelist to get in this book. (Although I'm sure it certainly didn't hurt!)

I was asked to submit when folks at Ben Bella saw a piece I did about the death of "Angel"/rebirth of "Firefly" around the time that the WB axed the former and Universal greenlit the movie version of the latter.

The process was pretty much what you'd expect. First, I needed to get an essay idea approved by Ben Bella. (The essay that appears in the book is actually my second suggestion. I originally wanted to focus on how "Firefly" was made up of an entire cornucopia of genres -- not just sci-fi and western. However, the book's editors decided that this was a topic already well documented.)

After the publisher okay'd my humorous take on why the women of "Firefly" were so much more capable than the men, I went through the usual first-draft/essay-officially-accepted/publisher-suggestions/second-draft process. It all worked out pretty smoothly.

It's nice to read that everyone's enjoying the book.

And, by the way, I believe that, in the past, Ben Bella has openly asked for essay topic submissions for upcoming Smart Pop books on their website. So while the "Firefly" train has left the station, there could be other opportunities down the road for you writerly types.

www.robert-b-taylor.com

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