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Lovegrove, James
Big Damn Hero
Firefly, #1. Story concept by Nancy Holder. Serenity is on the planet Persephone, gets a badly-needed job from Badger. Things go very wrong.
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"All this anti-hat talk gettin' to you, huh?" said Zoë
"Yup," Jayne said.Quote:
"... To a snail, a duck in a vengeful god."Quote:
"The magnets on your suit's boots and gloves will be useless." -- Really? Degaussing the ship will do that? Who knew!Read:
3/2024
Life Signs
Firefly, #5. Inara turns out to have cancer. There is a possibility that a certain doctor may have a cure, but he is on a prison planet. Mal decides to go fetch him. What a plan!
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"Tomato, potato," said Jayne with a shrug.Quote:
"A shive," River offered helpfully.Quote:
"Yeah. So really there's only one thing I can say to you, and don't take this the wrong way, but screw you."
"Well now," said Annie, "that's plain uncivil."
"Ain't it just."
Read:
3/2025
Sherlock Holmes: Gods Of War
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Titan Books, #5. Holmes and Watson come out of retirement to solve a nasty murder. Good story, almost like reading Arthur Conan Doyle, I thought.
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Aged bones like mine needed the consolation of upholstery.Quote:
"My bedding plants. Trampling them without a care in the world. Horticultural Philistines."Quote:
"Are they by any chance near the beehives?" Holmes asked.
"Five or so yards away."
"Excellent." -- Possibly said in a Mr. Burns voice... Quote:
"You know how to drive?" I asked.
"Not as such." he replied.Read:
3/2025
The Ghost Machine
Firefly, #3. Wow, that was different! Good story!
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"And you're the smart one in the family," Matty said. "God help us."Quote:
He just wasn't an ottoman sort of guy.Quote:
She might have been a woman, but a steel-reinforced toecap in the crotch was still a steel-reinforced toecap in the crotch [...]Read:
3/2025
The Magnificent Nine
Firefly, #2. Jayne is asked by a former lover to help her town repel a gang of thugs.
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Temperance hit the transmit button on the shortwave communicator in her hand. -- "Shortwave"??Quote:
Some were on motorcycles. Some were on quad bikes. One had a dune buggy. -- I found this not science fiction-ish.Quote:
... tethered to a stunted Joshua tree. -- Really? A Joshua tree on a planet a zillion miles from Earth?Read:
4/2024
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