Captain Malcolm Reynolds is a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family: squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal. But when Mal takes on a young doctor and his unstable telepathic sister as passengers, he gets rather more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from the coalition which dominates the universe, whose forces will stop at nothing to reclaim the girl. The crew that were once used to skimming the outskirts of the galaxy unnoticed find themselves caught between the military might of the Universal Alliance and the cannibalistic fury of the Reavers, savages who roam the very edge of space. Hunted by different enemies, they begin to discover that their greatest danger may lie on board Serenity herself...
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Captain Malcolm Reynolds is a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family: squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal. But when Mal takes on a young doctor and his unstable telepathic sister as passengers, he gets rather more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from the coalition which dominates the universe, whose forces will stop at nothing to reclaim the girl. The crew that were once used to skimming the outskirts of the galaxy unnoticed find themselves caught between the military might of the Universal Alliance and the cannibalistic fury of the Reavers, savages who roam the very edge of space. Hunted by different enemies, they begin to discover that their greatest danger may lie on board Serenity herself...
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Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.
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An alle Fans der TV-Serie "Firefly", die zwischen dem 30.09. (US-Start) und dem 24.11. (Deutschland-Premiere) weder die Gelegenheit hatten, sich den Film in USA/UK anzuschauen, noch die technischen Möglichkeiten zum (illegalen) Downloaden des Films haben ... und die es trotzdem EINFACH NICHT ERWARTEN KÖNNEN, bis der Film hierzulande anläuft:
Das Buch hält sich bei der Umsetzung der Dialoge SEHR genau ans Drehbuch. Daneben gibt der Autor (offensichtlich selbst ein Fan der Serie) immer wieder Hinweise darauf, auf welche Episoden der Serie "Firefly" sich die eine oder andere Szene des Films bezieht. So bekommt auch der geneigte Leser, der die dem Film zugrunde liegende TV-Serie nicht kennt, den "Mund wässrig gemacht", mal in die DVD-Box mit den TV-Episoden hineinzuschnuppern!
Das Buch ist leicht zu lesen, die zahlreichen "One-Liner" in den Dialogen regen zum Schmunzeln an und der extreme Western-Slang, der die TV-Serie ausgezeichnet hat, findet sich auch im Buch wieder, so dass beim Lesen bereits der Film vor dem "inneren Auge" abläuft!
OK, dass Umsetzungen von Drehbüchern i.d.R. keine "literarischen Glanzleistungen" sind, ist sicher allgemein bekannt (von daher auch nur 4 statt 5 Sternen).
Aber das Buch macht auf jeden Fall Spaß - und Appetit auf den Film! Und DAS ist es, was zählt... ;-)
Denn wird "Serenity" ein Erfolg, so sind bereits mindestens 2 Fortsetzungen geplant!!!
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An overly-straightforward adaptation of the screenplay
15. September 2005
Von David C. Hill
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A decent, but almost blandly faithful, rendition of the screenplay in novel form. For three-quarters of the book, the only differences between the two are the insertion here of scenes (from the TV show) of the Battle of Serenity Valley, and Simon trying to convince his parents that something is wrong with River, and even that is played with very straightforwardly.
The problem is, with an adaptation of a movie like this, what the fans (or even the interested) want is something that provides some extra depth, added details, background from Joss translated into novel form, whatever. Instead, we get something that neither adds to nor detracts from the movie -- the screenplay without the visuals, which ends up making it fairly ho-hum. Even in the last quarter, when we begin to get some perspective work, the book remains fairly unilluminating.
My recommendation? Purchase "Serenity: The Official Visual Guide" -- and get both the screenplay *and* copious photos *and* notes from Joss.
The problem is, with an adaptation of a movie like this, what the fans (or even the interested) want is something that provides some extra depth, added details, background from Joss translated into novel form, whatever. Instead, we get something that neither adds to nor detracts from the movie -- the screenplay without the visuals, which ends up making it fairly ho-hum. Even in the last quarter, when we begin to get some perspective work, the book remains fairly unilluminating.
My recommendation? Purchase "Serenity: The Official Visual Guide" -- and get both the screenplay *and* copious photos *and* notes from Joss.
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3. Januar 2006
Von V. Patel
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DeCandido ignores characters' depth from the series and makes their motivations seem juvenile. He takes us into River's mind only to tell us she's bored. Bored of what? Bored of the ever-present Alliance threat? Bored of the guilt that her brother gave up his life to save hers? River the bored school girl that's way ahead of her classmates is understandable. But, River the bored psychic fugitive privy to a secret that can change the 'Verse is not understandable. I flung the book when River repeatedly kept thinking that Simon is "too stupid to live."
He makes Inara seem like a school girl. Her decision to leave Serenity at the end of Firefly was something I would consider character defining; something she did despite of and because of her feelings for Mal. But, in the book, she just remembers leaving as doing something stupid -- there is no hint of WHY she left and what it meant for her. There is no depth.
To have a script that oozes personality with every word turned into a mind-numbing slog is a tragedy.
It's like reading a lazy adaptation of the script with some padding thrown in to make it long enough to be a novel. There is just no subtlety. Everything is either laid out bare or made dramatically mysterious. The script's stage directions offer more insight than this novel. I don't recommend purchasing it except to re-fuel your "holy crap, someone got paid to write this?" reserves.
Maybe it's not entirely his fault, though. Just as book-to-movie adaptations are usually bad, maybe the reverse is also true. The actors and the script really spoiled me.
By the way, if you want indepth essays on the series, lookup _Finding Serenity_.
He makes Inara seem like a school girl. Her decision to leave Serenity at the end of Firefly was something I would consider character defining; something she did despite of and because of her feelings for Mal. But, in the book, she just remembers leaving as doing something stupid -- there is no hint of WHY she left and what it meant for her. There is no depth.
To have a script that oozes personality with every word turned into a mind-numbing slog is a tragedy.
It's like reading a lazy adaptation of the script with some padding thrown in to make it long enough to be a novel. There is just no subtlety. Everything is either laid out bare or made dramatically mysterious. The script's stage directions offer more insight than this novel. I don't recommend purchasing it except to re-fuel your "holy crap, someone got paid to write this?" reserves.
Maybe it's not entirely his fault, though. Just as book-to-movie adaptations are usually bad, maybe the reverse is also true. The actors and the script really spoiled me.
By the way, if you want indepth essays on the series, lookup _Finding Serenity_.
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Strange reflections on a masterpiece
1. Oktober 2006
Von G. Varghese
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Need to emphasize that I LOVE the Serenity/Firefly 'verse. One of the biggest tragedies of modern television is how a unique, fresh and special series got cancelled by Fox, and then (in my opinion) the movie gets launched with an unfounded belief that underground "buzz" would launch this movie to huge sales. So, with that said - what I didn't like about this book was the author's interpretations on how the characters on Firefly think and are perceived. For example, in the book everyone hates Jayne. But, being a fan, I don't think it's that straight-forward. Like this, there's something or the other that I just don't believe was Whedon's intent when he created the characters. All in all, this is a pretty good movie novelization, with great detail and nice job relating incidents in the movie with the TV series. But, really should have been co-written with Josh Whedon to be 5 stars.
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