Firefly - The Magnificent Nine Kindle Edition

This was a requested gift and the recipient has been anxious to read!

Firefly, as you probably know is a space Western, taking its aesthetic in equal parts from American Western and Science Fiction tropes. James Lovegrove, who has written two other Firefly tie-in novels (Big Damn Hero & Ghost Machine) perfectly captures not only the feel of Whedon's groundbreaking, though short-lived, television series in all three novels. The dialogue seems straight from the source materials, the pacing matches that of the show, as does the characterizations, and interactions.Set between the tv series and the film, Serenity, these books help fill in the gaps between the two, wrapping up plot threads left hanging with the series and setting up new plot lines that emerge in the film.This novel in particular, though, also plays with the samurai stories that much of the 1960's spaghetti Westerns by directors like Sergio Leone used for inspiration. In particular, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (which was also the inspiration for John Strugis's The Magnificent Seven, from which this novel clearly takes its name.Brought to a no-horse town on a remote outpost planet under threat by a band of reckless outlaws, our nine heroes must find a way to defeat the bad guys and save the townspeople. Action, adventures, and hijinks ensue. That's about all I can say without giving away any twists or spoilers, except to add that you will not be disappointed.

All we need is Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen.I felt this story as I read it. I guess that I could say that it was copied from the movie, but it is much better than just a copy. I hope that other readers will read this book in the same feeling

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book — It’s very well written. It also came very well packaged. I’m happy!

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If you are a fan of Firefly, as I am, I highly recommend reading this book.I very much enjoyed reading The Magnificent Nine. Its dialog rings true to the series, the story was compelling, and a bit of world building was nice. The most important thing to me in a Firefly book or comic is capturing the feel of the characters and the Verse, which I thought this did well. This could well have been a two of three part episode of the series. While the premise of the story was a common one for westerns, which was obviously intentional based on the title, I found the twists and turns of the story to be interesting.

As I recently posted, I didn't care for the first effort in this series, "Big Damn Hero, " and as a result, I delayed reading "The Magnificent Nine." I finally read it a few days ago and I found it to be a much better read that I expected. Compared to the first novel, the characters in "The Magnificent Nine" seemed to much closer to how they were depicted in the TV series. The story wasn't "magnificent" but it was good enough to get me interested in purchasing the next novel in the series.

A nice addition to the tales of the 'verse; this adventure features the crew of 'Serenity' from the (sadly) short-lived TV series "Firefly" in a very familiar peril. The characters are well-written, with the occasional "HuH - they woudn't have said that?" moment of a ew writer, but overall things hung together for an enjoyable read. I'd recommend the other books in this series as well.

I utterly loved this!Okay, it's a tad predictable, sort of a cross between the Magnificent Seven and the Firefly episode "Heart Of Gold", but sometimes it's more important to see how the characters get to the end of the tale than the end itself. Character voices, especially Kaylee's, aren't quite right...but Wash - oh, Wash is SHINY in this novel!The marriage of Wash and Zoe was depicted in masterly fashion by the show - Wash's attitude of 'I wear the pants in this marriage' countered by Zoe's 'Yes, dear. Now do as you're told.' Utterly believable and rib-crackingly funny to boot. Wash has most of the best lines, and there's a delightful exchange with River (also at her best with the whole knowing-things-she-can't-possibly-know thing in this story).And Jayne's got hisself a gorram daughter he didn't know about! Or does he...?The almost poetic ending is set up beautifully by one of River's trademark odd pronouncements about 3% (according to my Fire) into the novel. It was never made clear exactly what talents River possessed and/or were created by the Alliance scientists/butchers who treated her brain like their personal playground, but...well, buy it and find out!

I really wanted to like these books i really did. Now the story line is pretty predictable and not very original but that isn't the problem . Its the dialogue its just so poorly written. No one talks like that let alone these characters. It make up so much of the book replacing a good narrative with tedious exposition. In the middle of what should be a tense and exciting scene a character will happily take time out for a 30 min monologue. One joke about the "dumb" character mis understanding a fancy word would probably be ok but i lost count i swear there were two on one page. The twist was obvious from chapter two the red herring was so laboured. The end result what should have been a light hearted romp though the outer space wild west along with some well loved characters, turned into something of a chore to get through.

Having read and loved Big Damn Hero I was waiting impatiently for the second book from James Lovegrove. There's not much to separate them but The Magnificent Nine is slightly inferior to Big Damn Hero. The author actually wrote this book first although it was published later which is why I think the characters' voices are captured just a little better in Big Damn Hero (more practice).Similarly to the first novel The Magnificent Nine could be said to be derivative in places, the basic premise feels very similar to the episodes 'Heart of Gold' and 'Jaynestown' but for me this is no detriment; I'm happy for these novels to feel familiar. To its credit though The Magnificent Nine does a good job in expanding Jayne's character and exploring Jayne's inner life just as Big Damn Hero did for Mal's origin.The continuity is...fine, there aren't any huge mistakes that I noticed but I think it was an error setting the story post-firefly and pre-Those Left Behind. How long is Inara supposed to be hanging around this ship? I think the author should have set the story after Those Left Behind and it would probably have made for a tighter narrative; Inara is given very little to do and the same could be said for Book. Given that the novel introduces 2/3 temporary main characters, it's a bit of a squeeze giving everyone some screentime so thinning the herd might have worked better. (Fun fact: the story takes place over the course of ~9 days making it easily the longest of any Firefly episode/story so far).These novels are the perfect antidote to the trash that Greg Pak has been writing for Boom! studios.

I enjoyed the first book , But This one is better the writing is great it's like watching the the series spot in, this story is more of what theydo great fun I just hope there are going to be more!The third one is in order keep it up.And thanks

If you like Firefly, get this. Excellent book