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Originally posted by earthgirl:
there was a deal at the time the movie was made that there would be the novelization, plus two more original tie in novels. concepts were submitted but never approved by Joss (for reasons highly speculated upon but never confirmed) and the contract time limitation lapsed. therefore the novels that they were advertising never got green lighted and thus there are no firefly tie in novels.

I got this story directly from Keith DeCandito himself (the author of the Serenity novelization, and who also submitted new novel ideas for consideration to fulfill the deal). You can ask him this question, but be prepared to barely controlled anger at not being able to write the story idea that he'd really love to and see the 'verse continue in print. Fowl language may or may not be involved in his response :)

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