A review by leahjanespeare
Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly by Jennifer Goltz, John C. Wright, Robert B. Taylor, Glenn Yeffeth, Tanya Huff, Don DeBrandt, Mercedes Lackey, Keith R.A. DeCandido, David Gerrold, Joy Davidson, Jewel Staite, Nancy Holder, Kevin M. Sullivan, Ginjer Buchanan, Michelle Sagara West, Lyle Zynda, Jane Espenson, Roxanne Longstreet Conrad, Larry Dixon, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Leigh Adams Wright
5.0
So cool!!! A must-read for any fan of Firefly.
It's a collection from a surprising amount of familiar authors (to me) like Mercedes Lackey and Nancy Holder. Made a few of these authors go up on my awesome-list to know they're Firefly fans!!! Those two do write science-fiction though, so maybe it's not surprising to everyone.
A great portion of the essays are devoted to strong feministic topics, how Whedon is a hero in that area, and there's even one essay where someone says he completely screwed it up. Gotta see both sides, right?
There was a beautiful music/score explanation essay that I loved, and one on the visual placement of characters relating to lines in the background and
photography...kind of hard to explain. If you're into filmmaking, you'll get it I think. Or photography; that's why I liked it.
Overall these essays were enjoyable and interesting; it was nice to read a few in between the other books I was reading too.
So now I gotta go watch the series again and notice WAY more than I did the first dozen times around. ;)
It's a collection from a surprising amount of familiar authors (to me) like Mercedes Lackey and Nancy Holder. Made a few of these authors go up on my awesome-list to know they're Firefly fans!!! Those two do write science-fiction though, so maybe it's not surprising to everyone.
A great portion of the essays are devoted to strong feministic topics, how Whedon is a hero in that area, and there's even one essay where someone says he completely screwed it up. Gotta see both sides, right?
There was a beautiful music/score explanation essay that I loved, and one on the visual placement of characters relating to lines in the background and
photography...kind of hard to explain. If you're into filmmaking, you'll get it I think. Or photography; that's why I liked it.
Overall these essays were enjoyable and interesting; it was nice to read a few in between the other books I was reading too.
So now I gotta go watch the series again and notice WAY more than I did the first dozen times around. ;)