Firefly isn't just for young people

POSTED BY: rhiog
UPDATED: Saturday, July 23, 2011 16:04
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ANONYMOUSE

Friday, July 22, 2011 2:22 PM

I for one would love to hear the commentary for Serenity, but for some reason it isn't available on my (UK, Region 2) DVD! Has anyone else had the same trouble?

OLDGUY

Friday, July 22, 2011 4:21 PM

and the one I'm talking about is on the basic movie edition..not the "special edition" which has commentary by several of the actors..typical fun and enjoyable, but the original commentary by Joss is probably the best I've ever heard from any director on any project. period.

EBFIDDLER

Friday, July 22, 2011 11:45 PM

The closest things to Firefly books that have been published are a novelization of the Serenity movie by Keith DeCandido, three companion books (two volumes for Firefly and one for Serenity) that are mainly pictures and scripts, but include some interesting interviews with the actors and with Joss Whedon. There are also two books of thoughtful essays edited by Jane Espenson, one of the writers for Firefly, called Finding Serenity and Serenity Found.

As for books--real books, with more adventures for our intrepid crew--I would dearly love to see such things. After all, haven't there been dozens upon dozens of Star Trek and Star Wars books for fans who couldn't get enough? I imagine the lack of books has a lot to do with the difficulties that resulted in such a gem of a show being cancelled in the first place. I wish someone could see their way to working through the difficulties of copyright ownership and licensing and authorize some books to be written with the Firefly characters, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. In the meantime, my suggestion is that you check out the efforts in the Blue Sun Room at this site, which is where Firefly fans who just can't let go (that includes me) have posted their own versions of the further adventures Mal and the others. The quality and length of the postings there are variable, but there are a number of stories that are novel-length and of extremely high quality.

ebfiddler

CYBERSNARK

Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:14 PM

There's also "Still Flying," which is largely interviews and behind-the-scenes, but does have a few short stories featuring our heroes.

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ECGORDON

Saturday, July 23, 2011 3:10 PM

Steven Brust, an established author of quite a few science fiction and fantasy novels, wrote "My Own Kind of Freedom" in anticipation of Joss, FOX and/or Universal creating a tie-in book series. When that did not happen, he released it himself under a creative common license. Consider it "professional" fan fiction.

http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html

ECGORDON

Saturday, July 23, 2011 4:04 PM

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe these are all the Firefly/Serenity books that have been published.

Float Out, Better Days and The Shepherd's Tale were one shots, Those Left Behind was originally in a three issue comic set, each number of which had three variant covers, thus giving us a cover with each main character. I still have those also. Dark Horse also did The Other Half, which was online only, never printed.

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