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Firefly: Life Signs

The Firefly Series, Book 5

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Firefly: Life Signs

By: James Lovegrove
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
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The fifth original novel from the much-loved space western Firefly, produced with Joss Whedon as consulting editor, set between the TV series and the movie Serenity.

Deadly disease

Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: She is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl’s Myeloma, a form of cancer that’s supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left.

A disreputable scientist

Through their shock and despair, rumors of a cure reach the crew. Expert Esau Weng is said to have developed a means to treat Inara’s condition, but he has been disgraced and incarcerated for life on a notorious Alliance prison planet.

An infamous prison

On Atata planet, inmates are abandoned with no guards and left to survive as best they can. What’s more, terraforming the planet did not take properly, so the world is a frozen wasteland. To save Inara, the Serenity crew must infiltrate the prison....

©2021 James Lovegrove (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Space Exploration Interstellar Solar System

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Often these sort of tie-in books are one level above the worst type of fanfic, but this book is actually really superb. The characters and actions all ring true and there's plenty of good Firefly action going on. Dialogue sounds like it comes from the voices of the characters. I had no trouble believing that this happened in the same show I watched on telly. It's well narrated too. I'm happy that Firefly could live on a bit longer in this way.

Tie-in fiction at its best

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Loved the story and narration, the characters were captured perfectly by the author and the narration brought them to life. Recommended.

One for the fans.

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This has been an excellent series of books and Life Signs does not dissapoint. Highly recommended to any Firefly fans.

Another good Firefly book

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As these characters were cut short on TV, this leaves a great deal of development, worlds and stories to explore - this is one of them!

Give the sense that the film isn't that far away in the timeline, still this is as shiny as they come. more of the Goram same please.....!

Always great to get back in the verce!

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Brought the characters of Firefly, especially Mal alive nicely,the language and manners of speech. A good adventure for the crew, bit standard, but enjoyable enough. Very good voice work by the narrator, pretty much what made it worth the time.

Nice return to the FireFly Verse.

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