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You may remember a few months ago there was a stir about an original Serenity novel called "Dark Mirror" that suddenly appeared on Diamond Comics' order sheet and in several online comic stores listings. No one knew anything solid about how it got there, but it seemed to be a maddening glitch, possibly related to the placeholding-yet-nonexistent Serenity book "Mirror Image" which has been in Amazon for over a year now and continues to plague credited author Keith R. A. DeCandido at Q and As ever since.

Tonight I was googling along, looking for something else entirely, when I found a copy of the 2006 summer catalog for Pocket Books. And on page 79, I found this:

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One year ago today, more or less, the Serenity novelization hit the shelves. Some of us avoided it like the plague, not wanting to know anything before we were in the theater and the lights went down. Some of us — and I'm not admitting anything — went driving through several cities trying to find a copy because Amazon takes a whole two days to deliver.

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You may have seen listings pop up at your favorite online comics store for "Serenity: Dark Mirror," with a description of the first original Serenity novel. My advice: don't get your hopes up.

I've seen it this week at Forbidden Planet, Wizard Universe, and TFAW.com, among others, drawn from the datafeed from Diamond Comics Distributor. So what the heck is it? Read on for more info:

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Palm eBooks (Palm's storefront for eReader.com) has included the Serenity novelization by Keith R. A. DeCandido in their "Best of 2005" list.

Granted, they also included 124 other books on the list, but still…

If you have not seen the movie Serenity, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK YET. If you have seen the movie, read this book several times.

Like the best novelizations, DeCandido's Serenity includes all the dialogue and action from the movie and then slides in the mustard; now we get to get inside the characters, see the motivations and histories, find out what River really thinks and what Jayne muses about when there's no one needs shootin' right off. Not that you'll find out all you'd like to, but there are a few more questions answered and some apparent inconsistencies smoothly explained. DeCandido clearly loves these characters and wears their voices well, and in this work he does exactly what Serenity fans want him to do: he makes the movie even better. And that's no small feat.

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If you have not seen the movie Serenity, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK YET. If you have seen the movie, read this book several times.

Like the best novelizations, DeCandido's Serenity includes all the dialogue and action from the movie and then slides in the mustard; now we get to get inside the characters, see the motivations and histories, find out what River really thinks and what Jayne muses about when there's no one needs shootin' right off. Not that you'll find out all you'd like to, but there are a few more questions answered and some apparent inconsistencies smoothly explained. DeCandido clearly loves these characters and wears their voices well, and in this work he does exactly what Serenity fans want him to do: he makes the movie even better. And that's no small feat.

Edited to add: eReader.com just posted the SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""Serenity" novelization: a spoiler-free review", url: "http://bashinginminds.com/2005/08/29/serenity-novelization-a-spoiler-free-review/" });