The Magnificent Nine: Firefly

James Lovegrove

Mar 2019 · Firefly Book 2 · Titan Books (US, CA)

About this eBook

The second original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.

An old flame of Jayne Cobb's, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help. She lives on the arid, far-flung world of Tethys, and bandits are trying to overrun her town to gain control of their water supply: the only thing standing between its people and dustbowl ruin. Jayne tries to persuade the Serenity crew to join the fight, but it is only when he offers Vera, his favourite gun, as collateral that Mal realises he's serious.

When the Serenity crew land at a hardscrabble desert outpost called Coogan's Bluff, they discover two things: an outlaw gang with an almost fanatical devotion to their leader who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and that Temperance is singlehandedly raising a teenage daughter, born less than a year after Temperance and Jayne broke up. A daughter by the name of Jane McCloud...

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoyed this book as its the continuing adventures of one of the greatest crews in the verse. I thought it was a little predictable but that didn't make it any less fun. I always find listening to an episode of Firefly before starting one of these id a good idea to get the voices right, but Lovegrove captures them nicely anyway. Worth the time for any Browncoat.

Engaging from the start, it just takes you into the story as if you're there.

Catches the Serenity and her crew just perfectly. It's like the second season we all wished for

About the author

James Lovegrove is the New York Times best-selling author of The Age of Odin. He was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004. He also reviews fiction for the Financial Times. He is the author of Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War, Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares, Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine and Sherlock Holmes: The Labyrinth of Death for Titan Books.