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| Firefly - The Magnificent Nine | |
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| Published by | Titan Books |
| ISBN | 9781785658297 (hardcover) 9781785658310 (paperback) |
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| Author | James Lovegrove |
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Firefly - The Magnificent Nine is a Firefly novel, published by Titan Books. The author is James Lovegrove, author of four Firefly novels to date. Joss Whedon is credited as consulting editor of the book. The hardcover first printing released on March 19, 2019 in the United Kingdom and March 26, 2019 in the United States; the trade paperback first printing released on August 25, 2020 in the United Kingdom and September 1, 2020 in the United States.
The story, according to the book itself, is set between the events of the Firefly TV series and the Serenity movie. More precisely, it takes place shortly after the Firefly TV series' final episode and before The Ghost Machine, the third novel in the series.
Description (from the dust jacket)[]
The second original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.
An old flame of Jayne Cobb's, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help. She lives on the arid, far-flung world of Thetis, and bandits are trying to overrun her town to gain control of their water supply: the only thing standing between its people and dustbowl ruin. Jayne tries to persuade the Serenity crew to join the fight, but it is only when he offers Vera, his favourite gun, as collateral that Mal realises he's serious.
When the Serenity crew land at a hardscrabble desert outpost called Coogan's Bluff, they discover two things: an outlaw gang with an almost fanatical devotion to their leader who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and that Temperance is singlehandedly raising a teenage daughter, born less than a year after Temperance and Jayne broke up. A daughter by the name of Jane McCloud...
References[]
Firefly - The Magnificent Nine (hardcover) at Titan Books
Firefly - The Magnificent Nine (paperback) at Titan Books