Firefly Novels?

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UPDATED: Friday, January 25, 2013 19:05
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CHRISISALL

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:23 PM

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
http://serenityverse.com/firefly/download-my-own-kind-of-freedom-a-fir
ely-novel-by-steven-brust/

Thanks. I downloaded it, and I'll get to reading it soon!

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:53 PM

There's a majorly long fanfic recommendation thread around here, though eventually it devolved into authors shilling their own work. People were actually making sockpuppets to do so... All a rather sordid tale really.

Actually, your best bet is probably the fanfic recommendation tab on the firefly article on tvtropes - it includes the universally recommended ones like ScrewTheAlliance and Mal4Prez. The only possible problem people might have with it is the recommendations ARE a little skewed towards weird cross-overs, which don't necessarily have as broad a general appeal as reccers might think. Also, not as much Mal/Inara as I'd like, but I guess that's pretty much going to be the case everywhere.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/Firefly

Ba-dap-bam.

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:13 PM

Byte, we'd better get back to RWED where we belong; Hands of Blue might get wind we been out...

VERASAMUELS

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 8:09 PM

There were Firefly novels planned. Sadly, Joss let the permissions, etc lapse.

Keith R A DeCandido has said his was going to be about a return to Canton.

Jim Swallow said that his would have been about Mal and co encountering a dark, embittered version of themselves in another crew.

Terri Osborne was due to write one.

There was a fourth novelist lined up who I think might have been Jose Molina, but don't quote me on that.

Vera

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

STORYMARK

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 8:55 PM

Im guessing, and this is just a guess, mind - that Joss didn't really want them written.

I know he was rather displeased with most of the Buffy novels, and said at the time that very few outside of his writing staff could capture the "voice" of the show to his satisfaction.

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if that had something to do with it.

Excuse me while I soak in all these sweet, sweet conservative tears.

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LILI

Friday, January 25, 2013 7:05 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
I know he was rather displeased with most of the Buffy novels, and said at the time that very few outside of his writing staff could capture the "voice" of the show to his satisfaction.

I would be fine with the writing staff doing novels, or even novelettes. Or writing in script form that could be converted into a novelette form by a fiction writer that could add setting descriptions, etc. I think that would be amazing, actually.

Facts are stubborn things.

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