Interesting that Firefly has enough marketability to create new books.
I've read Lovegrove's Gods series and found them to be high concept
but with only basic plots with no surprises beyond a single big reveal
in each novel. Yes browsing in a physical store can uncover some
things. I find the same when visiting board game stores. My last
interesting find was a GURPS Klingons book that had been on the
store's shelf for more than 15 years.

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 8:55 AM Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson
at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, and I nearly forgot.
>
> Here's why we still need book shops.
>
> I went into work for a whole day for the first time yesterday in 15 months.  That was a bit of a shock to the system I can tell you.  The commute (75-90 mins one way on bus/ferry/walk), the interaction with 3D people (nice though that was), the 4.5 miles I walked which is waaaay further than anything I've done in the last year barring about two occasions of 3 and a bit miles.  No wonder I'm wrecked.  And I don't think that's anything to do, yet, with the second Covid vaccination I had this morning.
>
> Anyway, at lunchtime I escaped for a quick look round a real live bookshop which I've not been to in the same 15 months and I stumbled across:
>
> Lovegrove, James (2020).  Firefly: Big Damn Hero.  Titan.
> and
> Lovegrove, James (2020).  Firefly: The Magnificent Nine.  Titan.
>
> Both paperbacks.  ISBNS 9781785658280 and 9781785658310 respectively.
>
> There's also apparently Ghost Machine also by Lovegrove and Generations by Tim Lebbon but neither were on the shelves and looking them up now I find that Ghost Machine says it's book 3 of a 5 book series but there's no info on the last one.
>
> There's no reason I couldn't have come across these online somewhere and I'd have thought I inhabit enough lists and mailing lists that I might have done, but sometimes a bit of serendipity is what's needed.
>
> My apologies however if this is old news to everyone given I seem to be a year behind the curve.  There's probably an old TML post someone will point me to now...
>
> Of course, they're NOT Traveller (despite the rumours of Whedon basing Firefly on a Traveller, or close, rpg he was involved with) but one back cover blurb quote says "The entire novel feels like it could be a lost episode from the show" and *that* of course means that it would probably possible to turn them into a Traveller adventure with relative ease.
>
> I'm already nearly half way into the first book and that seems true enough (although as far as I've read it might be wiser to make Mal an NPC, not sure).
>
> Anyway, it would be remiss of me not to mention them and I'm ashamed to say that my excitement over finding them rather obscured the excitement of finding that Deepnight Revelation DNR Commemorative had been delivered to work because the Kickstarter presumably was so long ago that I'd not yet changed deliveries to my home address.  Still, it meant that colleague Jane (Fred in TTA) could watch the unboxing and drool.
>
> Anyway, it's sunny, so why am I inside writing to you lot when I could be outside reading one or both of the above!
>
> tc
>
> (Oh, and I also spotted a couple of new Firefly graphic novels but they were both vol.2 of series and I wasn't 100% sure what I had at home already, so I've saved them for another day.)
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