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Firefly: Life Signs

The Firefly Series, Book 5

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Firefly: Life Signs

Written 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 Science Fiction Space Exploration Interstellar Solar System
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I quite enjoyed it. The narrator really nails the feel of the Serenity's crew and if I squint my ears I can believe it's Nathan Fillian himself. Overall a sweet little piece of brain candy.

A sweet little bit of brain candy

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It started off a bit slowly, but I did get sucked in, eventually. Anara is dying, and the crew set out to a prison planet to try to liberate a doctor who may have a cure. Their escapades combined action with the humour one expects from Firefly. I enjoyed the narration. Note there are a few references to a lesbian marriage.

I enjoyed getting reacquainted with the crew!

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Boy these guys do a lot of killing which I do not remember from the TV series but here it is. The detail and writing about the blood and ways to kill people is really amped up in my estimation.
That all being said, the voice is perfect and the writer has captured the feel for the show. Well done but be ready for the violence.

Lots of Blood

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When you a dose, here’s Just a little bit more of our space cowboy crew.

A little more of our favourite crew.

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As a note on this series there's a great deal of repetition of describing scenes and characters. It's not just when there's different perspectives on a moment but a needless third or fourth description of some character.

That said, this is certainly one of the better stories in the series, especially given that they need to walk a fine line of narrative that fits between the series and the movie. There were a few problem scenes but nothing terrible.

I also find myself weirdly wondering why it's so easy to kill the Alliance. I understand they're an over arching antagonist faction, but sometimes it seems like they omit the human factor in the organizations.

Good story.

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