Firefly

The Magnificent Nine

James Lovegrove

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785658303
• Print ISBN:
  9781785658297
• Subtopic: Science Fiction

The second original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. The second original novel from the much-missed Space Western Firefly, produced with Joss Whedon as consulting editor, set between the TV series and the movie Serenity. A cosmic cry for help Captain Mal Reynolds is in a fix. He'd like nothing more than to find honest smuggling work that stays under the Alliance's radar and keeps the good ship Serenity in the sky. But when an old flame of Jayne Cobb's sends a desperate plea across the galaxy, his crew has other ideas. A cut-throat banditOn the arid, far-flung world of Thetis, the terrifying Elias Vandal is threatening to overrun the town of Coogan's Bluff with his trigger-happy army. He wants control of the only thing standing between its people and dustbowl ruin: their water supply. The Magnificent NineWhen the crew land at the hardscrabble desert outpost, they discover two things: a savage outlaw gang who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and that Jayne's former girlfriend, Temperance, is singlehandedly raising a teenage daughter, born less than a year after she and Jayne parted ways. A daughter by the name of Jane McCloud…

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Title page
• Copyright
• Author’s Note
• Epigraph page
• The Matter of a Hat
• Taking Unkindly to Threats
• A Boy Named Jayne
• An Old Flame Can Still Cause Burns
• The Scent of a Companion
• A No-account World at the Ass-end of the Galaxy
• Welcome to Thetis
• The Inevitable Bar Brawl
• The Cavalry
• Me Jayne, You Jane
• The Path of Least Bloodshed
• Piecing it Together
• Stop the Mule, I Want to Get Off
• Hair Triggers
• Riders of the Post-Earth Age
• Boss of the Boat
• A Powerful, Primal Driver
• The Unpardonable Sin of Badmouthing Mama Cobb
• Heroic Measures
• Improvements in the Situation, or Lack Thereof
• Stanislaw L’Amour
• The Condiment Trade
• A Man With the Heart of a Mean Animal
• Clang Clang Clang
• The Fatherly Thing
• Preparations
• The Beginning of the End for Coogan’s Bluff
• Confident and Captainy
• Unleashing Hell
• Landmines of an Improvised and Somewhat Homespun Nature
• Serenity Under Siege
• Sitting Ducks Shooting at Sitting Ducks
• Taking Hits
• Bad Blood
• “I’ve Had Enough. This Ends Now.”
• Analgesics and Amens
• Brimstone Gulch
• Magic Hat
• The Dumbest, Insanest, Reckless-est Plan Ever
• Typical Political Type
• A Second Bite of the Cherry
• The Longest of Long Shots
• Serenity Valley All Over Again
• Human Pendant
• Dragonwing Protection Services Inc.
• Time For a Party
• “That Which is Most Precious…”
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author