February 21, 2008, 9:50 am
Back from the Dead
By Dave Itzkoff
Scene from FireflyMorena Baccarin and Adam Baldwin in “Firefly” (Fox)
Some deceased sci-fi television series get a second chance at life (“Jericho”). Others come back before we had a chance to grieve for them (“Bionic Woman”). Still others come back before we had a chance to grieve for them, with the voice of Val Kilmer (“Knight Rider”).
And then there are those late, lamented shows that come back as literature.
Recent weeks have seen at least two intriguing entries in the genre: the world of Joss Whedon’s space opera “Firefly,” which lasted just 14 episodes in the 2002-3 television season (and spawned the 2005 feature film “Serenity”), lives again in Steven Brust’s novel “My Own Kind of Freedom.” According to the fan Web site Whedonesque.com, Brust, the Nebula-award nominated novelist and short-story author, originally wrote “Freedom” on spec in 2005 for a proposed line of “Firefly”/“Serenity” tie-in books; various economic realities prevented that from happening at the time. But now, Brust has made the novel available for free at his home page, The Dream Café.
Back from the Dead
By Dave Itzkoff
Scene from FireflyMorena Baccarin and Adam Baldwin in “Firefly” (Fox)
Some deceased sci-fi television series get a second chance at life (“Jericho”). Others come back before we had a chance to grieve for them (“Bionic Woman”). Still others come back before we had a chance to grieve for them, with the voice of Val Kilmer (“Knight Rider”).
And then there are those late, lamented shows that come back as literature.
Recent weeks have seen at least two intriguing entries in the genre: the world of Joss Whedon’s space opera “Firefly,” which lasted just 14 episodes in the 2002-3 television season (and spawned the 2005 feature film “Serenity”), lives again in Steven Brust’s novel “My Own Kind of Freedom.” According to the fan Web site Whedonesque.com, Brust, the Nebula-award nominated novelist and short-story author, originally wrote “Freedom” on spec in 2005 for a proposed line of “Firefly”/“Serenity” tie-in books; various economic realities prevented that from happening at the time. But now, Brust has made the novel available for free at his home page, The Dream Café.
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