Serenity Novel

POSTED BY: PhoenixRose
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 01:36
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PHOENIXROSE

Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:21 AM

You know, if I had my way, Firefly/Serenity novels would be coming out in droves. I think that (with the right person writing them) novels would be an ideal way to continue telling stories in the 'verse. They can be more in-depth than most other things, up to and including comics, and they're very cost-effective. Of course what we all really want to see is a continuing series or more movies, but I'd also really like to see more books. Even if it was just to keep me from going insane waiting for something on the screen, I'd love to see more books. Anyone agree?

Moving on the the novelization of Serenity; I just finished reading it and I thought it was great for fleshing a few things out (but wouldn't have been nearly as good a read if I hadn't seen the movie) and I'm wondering a few things. Like, can the backgrounds and thoughts and emotions be taken as canon? Joss must have approved the novel, even if he didn't write it, and all of it made perfect sense to me. What do y'all think?

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One day.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

SOFI

Saturday, April 22, 2006 8:47 AM

i too was surprised that there arent more books. seems like an obvious thing to do. i heard somewhere that all the buffy/angel books are just written by fans and joss got them published. maybe we should try writing some!

about the serenity book i havnt read it yet, but i assume that its accurate... he must have had considerable input, cos its quite important to get thoughts and feelings right, isnt it? someone somewhere said that the books of the pilot 'serenity' not the bdm. is that right?

PHOENIXROSE

Saturday, April 22, 2006 9:04 AM

No, it's definitely the BDM. It starts with the opening scene from the pilot, the battle of Serenity, and has other references to episodes throughout, but it is definitely the BDM. It's a good read in a lot of ways; ties a few things together that otherwise might not make sense. A little more backstory (though not as much as I'd like) and things like that. I recomend it.

Maybe we should try writing books! But I'd still like to see what people a little closer to the creation of the show would write. Any stories that couldn't be told on the screen, say. There could be a novel of... of Book's diary; or Inara's! There could be episodes, just describing them out to do a job. I think Joss should write a few novels for us starving fans, but maybe we could write some ourselves if we were able. (I love to write, but I don't know if I could write convincingly in the 'verse. Maybe I'll try if I have the time sometime.)

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One day.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

TAYEATRA

Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:14 AM

Look for ScrewtheAlliance in the blue sun room.

He is a published StarTrek novelist and is currently on chapter 60something of his firefly book.

It's an excellent read of very high quality and available free to everyone in the 'verse.

Look out for River's harmonica, Wash 'wildfire', torturers from the past, bounty hunters and 'criminal mastermind' Simon Tam!

Seriously, if firefly novels were published this would be one of the first.

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Taya
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Dark Angel, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Enterprise, Farscape... anything else you'd like to cancel?

PHOENIXROSE

Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:18 AM

Shiny! I'll look for screwthealliance for sure!
Is there, uh, a place to get a composite of fanfic? I've tried to read some of the blue sun items, but they're all chopped into little bits and kind of hard to read that way.

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One day.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

TAYEATRA

Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:42 AM

Click on a user name and then near the bottom click 'view all bluesun items'.

You can then see all the fiction posted by that user. Save the list and keep coming back until you've read them all. Just keep an eye on which chapter you're on. It's anoying when you forget and have to mess around working out which ones you've read.

Very few authors put links to the next chapter on the bottom of their pieces so working from the 'full user lists' is probably the best way.

Here's a short list of fanfic that might plug the firefly shaped gap for a while:
StA (one shorter piece, and the mammoth piece in progress)
AMDobell( 3 or 4 good sized fics),
thesoapboxer(Antebellum - a work in progress),
2x2 (Work in progress Mal/Inara angst fic),
GeekUSA (writing a damned good second season episode at a time).

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Taya
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Dark Angel, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Enterprise, Farscape... anything else you'd like to cancel?

JULIX

Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:19 PM

I thought the novel was pretty good. I enjoyed the movie more and was glad I had seen the movie first. I agree there should be more books....................way more

SLIP

Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:29 PM

I have read the Serenity novel and I was disappointed. There were some interesting ideas - the connection between Mr. Universe and Wash, for example, but I didn't enjoy the book. I would love to see more novels published, but only if they do Firefly and Serenity justice. As for whether it counts as canon... I believe Joss said in an interview that he sort of looks the other way when it comes to the novel(s).

DAVESHAYNE

Saturday, April 22, 2006 2:27 PM

There are plans for Serenity novels. I'm prety sure DeCandido is working on one for a late spring early summer publication. I'd post a link but it's far too early for me to wrap my head around a search engine.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review at amazon.de

THEREAVER

Saturday, April 22, 2006 4:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by daveshayne:
There are plans for Serenity novels. I'm prety sure DeCandido is working on one for a late spring early summer publication. I'd post a link but it's far too early for me to wrap my head around a search engine.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review at amazon.de

I found this. Could be it. [url] http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1416502947/qid=1145723403/sr=
1-10/ref=sr_1_3_10/203-4595623-0881548

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