Firefly companion book

[prophecygirl]

From Titanbooks.com -


Fresh from their success with the SFX Reader Award-winning Serenity : The Official Visual Companion, Titan Books is thrilled to announce the acquisition of World Rights for the first-ever companion to Joss Whedon’s cult television series Firefly.

Titan Books, leading publisher of graphic novels and film and television companions, promises that Firefly: The Official Companion, scheduled for publication this summer, will be just what the show’s fervent fans, the Browncoats, have been waiting for.

Editor Adam Newell says, “We can’t reveal details just yet, but rest assured that we are planning to make this Big Damn Book as shiny as possible...” Anyone who wants to receive updates about the project should send an email with the subject header “Firefly” to [e-mail].

20th Century Fox VP, Domestic Licensing, Michael Peikoff notes, “We are confident that the creative team at Titan Books will ‘dead-on’ deliver to both the Firefly and Whedon fan base. This highly anticipated title, though slated for Summer 2006, is already receiving terrific buzz in the marketplace. We could not be more pleased to be working with Titan Publishing on this project.”

Set 500 years in the future, Firefly centres around Mal Reynolds, captain of the ship-for-hire Serenity, and his eclectic crew of galactic misfits. The sci-fi television series has been a DVD phenomenon, selling almost half a million copies. The spin-off movie Serenity, which continues the Firefly story, was a commercial and critical success in the US and UK.

Titan was a natural choice as publisher of the Firefly companion. The company has long been a supporter of Joss Whedon’s work, having sold more than 200,000 Whedon-related titles, and Titan’s recently released Serenity companion has proved a huge success with fans, winning the SFX Magazine Reader Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

[willbueche]

Word is it won't be as colorful as the Serenity Visual Companion, because Titan's Official Companions tend to be black and white books, but it could still be good. Their Battlestar Galactica Official Companion has good interview excerpts from the whole cast, and interesting series info, beyond the episode guide itself.

[Browncoat]

I love that we're getting this, but i really hope there are lots of colour photos. The costumes (well, inara's anyway) are so stunning and the firefly verse is so visually beautiful, it'd be a pity for the pics to be B&W.

[DanMan]

Is this the same company that did the Watcher's Guides? Then I understand what they mean about black and white.

[Browncoat]

There's going to be two volumes!!! I just read it at fireflyfans.net

Here's the link to the actual site

www.titanbooks.com/firefly#

I'm so happy we're getting two. I hope they're both a decent size and that this isn't some way to get more money out of us.

[shivi1978]

cool I will get them both !!!
does anyone have the "The Official Visual Companion" or "Finding Serenity" ?!
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if so, are they good ?

[Browncoat]

Shivi- both books are great.

"Finding serenity" was pretty interesting. There were two essays that i thought could have been left out (one about a tick and some star trek comparision- both utterly boring). But overall i found it to be a good read.

And the visual companion is good too. Both are worth it to buy.

[shivi1978]

thanks Browncoat
I gonna buy them both !