Firefly: Before the Forge, a fan-novel by Kevin Bell

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TWO

Monday, March 5, 2012 1:12 PM

Kevin Bell writes, “To date I have completed the first two novels in this planned cycle. Firefly: Old Habits and Firefly: Before the Forge are available here for you to read in their entirety. Work is progressing on Firefly: Into the Fire, with new chapters being added as soon as they are completed.”

Download the novels at www.harriersandheroes.ca/projects.htm

“I’m still waiting to find a contact inside FOX Studios that thinks there is some merit to having a series of Firefly/Serenity novels published, but that hasn’t stopped me from continuing the work I started on the saga I am writing.” - Kevin Bell, 5 December 2010, Author's Note from Firefly: Before the Forge

Bell writes in his blog, 22 February 2012: “For now, there are still two-and-a-half Firefly novels here for you all to enjoy, as well as several other works in various stages of completion. Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day!”

FIREFLY: OLD HABITS - completed 1 December 2009
Direct download the novel at www.harriersandheroes.ca/Firefly/Old%20Habits/Firefly.Old%20Habits.com
plete%20novel.edt.pdf
Synopsis:
The Miranda signal has been sent. The biggest, darkest secret of the Alliance is out. Now what?

For Captain Malcolm Reynolds and the crew of the Firefly transport Serenity, it’s back to life as normal. Well, as close to normal as one can get. That means taking jobs wherever they might be found, even on the ragged edges of the civilized systems.

When a rogue colonel from a war long lost suddenly appears in their path, Serenity and her crew are quickly caught up in a whirlwind of old grudges, unsettled scores, misdirection and betrayal. As events begin to spiral out of control, Mal and his people find themselves in familiar territory once more: on the wrong side of the Alliance lawmakers.

With the colonel’s final desperate plan at last revealed, it’s up to Mal and Inara, Jayne and Kaylee, and Simon and River to rescue Zoë before all Hell breaks loose, and the ‘Verse is plunged into total chaos once more!

FIREFLY: BEFORE THE FORGE - completed 5 December 2010
Direct download the novel at www.harriersandheroes.ca/Firefly/Before%20the%20Forge/Before%20the%20F
orge.full%20novel.edt.pdf
Synopsis:
On the distant world of Shadow, in the far reaches of the Georgia System, a young boy is born. He is a child of Fate, one whose own nature will be tried and tested, shaped and moulded by the events that surround him.

Over time he will form bonds of kinship and loyalty with family and friends alike, bonds that will strengthen and grow as he does. He will come to know of love and of loss, and of the high cost of freedom that every living soul must pay.

Yet even as the boy grows into a man, a darkness approaches. It brings with it a future full of uncertainty, and the prospect of total destruction of all that he knows. It brings with it the threat of an all-consuming War that will divide the universe in two, or bring it to an end.

As the faces and friends with whom he has grown up begin to choose sides, the young man named Malcolm Reynolds must make his own decision — whether to allow his freedoms to be overruled by a government he has never supported, or to fight for all that he holds so very dear and true to his own heart.

FIREFLY: INTO THE FIRE - work in progress, with 16 chapter as of 5 March 2012
Download at www.harriersandheroes.ca/projects.htm
Synopsis:
Parliament has been saved. The Alliance is secure once again, due in no small part to the efforts of the seven crew members of the Firefly-class mid-bulk transport named Serenity. But what thanks do they get for risking themselves to avert disaster? A bounty placed upon their heads that is so large that it brings the most dan

BYTEMITE

Monday, March 5, 2012 3:18 PM

Aw. I'd love to have some Firefly novels, but... Has the author talked with Joss? I mean even George Lucas had some amount of interaction with writers in the Star Wars EU. Only a miniscule amount, and he mostly overrode a lot of what they'd written, but still, some.

When we're talking about Mal's actual backstory and after the movie stuff that appears to tie into the bigger myth arc, we gotta have some Joss advice.

TWO

Monday, March 5, 2012 7:51 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Has the author talked with Joss? . . . When we're talking about Mal's actual backstory and after the movie stuff that appears to tie into the bigger myth arc, we gotta have some Joss advice.

The free advice Joss has is here: http://dannystack.blogspot.com/2009/01/joss-whedons-top-10-writing-tip
s.html

FOX is not interested in Kevin Bell's books. Joss is unavailable. That's the way it is.

Kevin Bell blogged last night at 10:55 PM that: “When I started Book Three, Into the Fire, I had every intention of focusing on that work until the story arc was completed. Then came the hammerblow from FOX that said "Sorry, but we're not interested in allowing you to publish these books." Sort of took the wind out of my sails, I have to admit.” - www.harriersandheroes.ca/apps/blog/entries/show/12896772-firefly-into-
the-fire-chapter-16-finally-

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

MOOSE

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:05 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:

When we're talking about Mal's actual backstory and after the movie stuff that appears to tie into the bigger myth arc, we gotta have some Joss advice.

I'll read them.

This story is going on 10yrs old.
We've gotten half a TV season, a movie, and a smattering of comic books.

I want more.
If Joss wants to continue telling the story of his 'Verse, I'll listen...but he isn't right now.

So, I'll take what I can get.

STILLFLYIN2

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Moose:
I'll read them.

This story is going on 10yrs old.
We've gotten half a TV season, a movie, and a smattering of comic books.

I want more.
If Joss wants to continue telling the story of his 'Verse, I'll listen...but he isn't right now.

So, I'll take what I can get.

Agree!

PIZMOBEACH

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 7:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by two:
Then came the hammerblow from FOX that said "Sorry, but we're not interested in allowing you to publish these books." Sort of took the wind out of my sails, I have to admit.”

Do they have people sitting at computers searching out anything to do with Firefly 24-7-365? And can I be a little encouraged by that if they do?

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

Do they have people sitting at computers searching out anything to do with Firefly 24-7-365? And can I be a little encouraged by that if they do?

The ones he completed are online and linked above. Fox just doesn't want to publish them, or let him publish them otherwise (which legally, they're required to do unless they DO want to publish it themselves.)

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

PIZMOBEACH

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

Do they have people sitting at computers searching out anything to do with Firefly 24-7-365? And can I be a little encouraged by that if they do?

The ones he completed are online and linked above. Fox just doesn't want to publish them, or let him publish them otherwise (which legally, they're required to do unless they DO want to publish it themselves.)

Right, totally get that - just imaging they have better things, bigger shows in their catalogue to guard, it's been 10 years after all and even as a fan I'd never heard of this guy's works until this thread.

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:18 PM

It'll probably be pretty well written fanfiction. He doesn't seem to be approaching any of the plot lines we know Joss has in mind, though that doesn't rule out his stories I guess.

Though I do have to question the summary for Before the Forge a little. Child of Fate?

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:18 PM

The way copyright law works is that if you don't defend the copyright, you can loose it. And publishing means money.

They're not scouring the net for people using the characters for fan-fic. But selling an unauthorized novel featuring copyrighted characters is a big deal.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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