Books, if you love Firefly you will really love reading....
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I don't have an answer to the subject line, but hopefully you people here do. Help me...I need something new to read.
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Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell.
It's an entire series.
~Kaele
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I don't think there is anything out there like Firefly - that's what makes it so unique. Since it's the people and their interactions that I love so much, I'll recommend some books with memorable characters and plots that suck you in. Again, not like Firefly but good characters.
Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay. He is a bit wordy and loves prose, but he can write people you care about. Tigana and A Song for Arbonne are particularly wonderful.
If you prefer something a little more light hearted - go for the 12 book series by David Eddings. The Belgariad (5 books), The Mallorian (5 books), Belgarath and Polgara. Not deep or terribly meaningful, but characters you will enjoy getting to know and hate letting go of (I admit it, I cried at the end...).
Tad Williams, Memory, Thorn and Sorrow trilogy (The Dragonbone Chair, The Stone of Farewell and To Green Angel Tower).
The classic (and my very favorite) Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" and the two that follow Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide. (Not a fan of the ones after that in the Ender series.)
Hey - can you tell I love books....I actually HATE TV!!!!
Ivy
I've been sane a long while now, and change is good...
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Well... I don't write much here, but there is a two book 'series' (think of it as cancelled before its time) by Robert Frezza that is full of witty dialogue, absurdities, thrilling heroics, crappy space ships, and frontiers. With an interesting take on the frontier and why people live out there.
This would be "McLendon's Syndrome" 1993, and "The VMR Theory" 1996.
Good luck finding them in used bookstores or online.
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I totally agree with the David Eddings books. I loved all of them
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Also check out David Brin. His Uplift Series is very cool. I also loved his books Earth and The Postman (remember...don't judge a book by its movie).
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Originally posted by Ivy:
Tad Williams, Memory, Thorn and Sorrow trilogy (The Dragonbone Chair, The Stone of Farewell and To Green Angel Tower).
Someone else has read this series? I thought my sister and I were the only ones. Great books!
It doesn't really compare to Firefly, (whatdoes?) but I'm currently reading the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.
Also, I highly recommend A Song of Fire and Ice, a series of books by George RR Martin. Not Firefly related, but a great read.
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Read the Myth series of books by Robert Aspirin. VERY good. And quirky. Like Firefly.
Oh, and since I'm in the convention mood, Bimbos of the Death Sun along with Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb.
~Kaele
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Originally posted by Kaele:
Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell.
It's an entire series.
~Kaele
Agreed, those are great ;p
My own pick: uhm... off the top of my head, the Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison. Not too much like the Firefly 'verse, but plenty of humour. (Plus gives many reasons to pick up Esperanto as a second language.)
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Originally posted by Kaele:
Read the Myth series of books by Robert Aspirin. VERY good. And quirky. Like Firefly.
~Kaele
Well, if you're bringing up Robert Aspirin, I'm bringing up Jody Lynn Nye who wrote an excellent series of books: Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology, and Advanced Mythology.
Hilarious, quirky, with very memorable characters. The first three are collected into a trilogy called Applied Mythology and the fourth was written long after.
"I also hear that there's something called Firefly, which is either a canceled science-fiction television show or a new religion, I'm not clear on that. Either way, prayers for the resurrection are involved." – Lore Sjoberg
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