Comments on: Steven Brust's Firefly novel now online

By: bob

bob — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:54:59 +0000

all I can say is the joss is doing a terrible job of keeping Firefly/serenity alive I understand the control thing but really how long has it been?, come on joss get to pb and stop making comics. just my opinion

By: Whitefall

Whitefall — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:05:36 +0000

Ditto to that. The storycraft and writing do both Firefly and Steven Brust proud. Now I gotta go read it again…

By: Michael J. Welch

Michael J. Welch — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:50:35 +0000

Just finished reading it. I thought it was excellent. The characters were, as you said, spot on, even if Jayne didn't exactly shine. River was awesome though.

By: sh!ny

sh!ny — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:12:51 +0000

I assume Joss just wants to retain creative control over his universe because he still has stories to tell. It's not like the Star Wars EU where background movie characters can be fleshed out with many millenia in which to tell their tales. The stories we've gotten so far have been about nine central characters and various others who enter and exit their lives over the span of a year or so (not counting the War, OoG flashbacks, etc.) The more non-Joss stories that are out there only muddy up the waters continuity-wise, plot-wise, and any other -wise for when, not if, dammit, we see the cast and crew flying again.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:48:24 +0000

Fair enough. You would certainly know more about the situation than I would, so I've removed that paragraph.

However, technically it would be a mistake, rather than a lie. In the future I would appreciate it if it might be assumed first that I was merely wrong and not actively lying.

Thanks.

By: Keith R.A. DeCandido

Keith R.A. DeCandido — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:35:35 +0000

This is a lie: "Since then Joss has said in interviews that Serenity is special to him and he doesn’t want to relinguish control over it the way he did with the Buffy novels. So no original novels."

He didn't have control over the Buffy novels because 20th Century Fox licensing didn't give it to him. Universal =DID= give him control over the Serenity novels. He wouldn't have relinquished anything — in truth, the reason WHY there won't be Serenity novels is BECAUSE he has control over them, and actively shitcanned them.

By: Matt C

Matt C — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:39:01 +0000

I love Brust, especially Cowboy Feng's, so I'm not sure why I'm still typing this repl…