false 2788448 1 Steven Brust jumps into the universe and characters of Joss Whedon's Firefly series. 2814215 2008 My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel total:66|5:18|4:26|3:18|2:4|1:0| 66 256 111 22 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:19:32 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:52:40 -0700 2009
This is the first book I've read by Brust, and it's a media tie-in (if you're being polite) or fanf...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 15 19:14:31 -0800 2008 Sun Sep 20 23:17:20 -0700 2009 My Own Kind of Freedom is: Steven Brust's Firefly fanfic novel. If I understand the history of this book correctly, Brust t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 14:30:34 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 16:17:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 05:21:50 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 13:34:08 -0800 2008
So he wrote it as fan fiction and is distributing it for free. The result is that a fantastic aut...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 06:02:57 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 18:08:47 -0800 2008
The result is a fast, engaging read, driven almost entirely by u...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 07:07:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 09:40:28 -0700 2009
The characters felt spot on to me, particularly River and Mal. The style of speech and the mix of English and Chinese worked too.

There is nothing new here but I underst...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 18:50:15 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 18:51:07 -0700 2008
Minuses:

- The chapter titles were kind of silly and irritating.
- Overuse of that trick where you show how everyone's reacting to a certain reveal (or snippet of dialogue), but artificially hide the article in question.
- Uh, you'd thi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 15:57:36 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 16:01:52 -0700 2008
I've only read the Khaavre...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 10:58:45 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 10:58:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:42:18 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 00:44:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 17 10:32:31 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 01:48:29 -0700 2008
Brust manages to get spot-on with all of the characters and by the end of the book you feel like you've just watched an episode of the show. It's a fantastic read ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 18:42:43 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 20:05:12 -0700 2008
True to the title, Brust introduces us to a new kind of freedom, and in doing so crafts the very first legitimate definition for 'freedom' that I have ever read or heard, the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 06 08:04:21 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 07:44:49 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 08:04:21 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 18:52:12 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 14:37:41 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 18:23:23 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 18:24:57 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Fri Nov 14 21:11:36 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 21:11:58 -0800 2008 took the main characters and wrote another episode of the TV series. It was
beach-reading, but it was also free.]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 14 19:45:40 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 13:53:34 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 19:45:44 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Feb 18 11:13:20 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 31 09:53:48 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Jun 13 12:04:45 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 12:05:41 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Apr 23 09:56:37 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 09:37:10 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 09:37:10 -0800 2008