Firefly and Retribution Falls -- 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist by two

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Firefly and Retribution Falls -- 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:12 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

A paragraph from the reviews of novels on the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist at www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2010/04/the_2010_arthur.shtml

[Chris Wooding's Retribution Falls] is also, however, strongly redolent of one of the most popular science fiction series of the last decade. Joss Whedon's Firefly (2002), famously cancelled after just 13 episodes, was a space western in which a plucky crew made up of disparate individuals, each with a secret or two to hide, operated in the grey economy at the edges and in the crevices of a vast and unforgiving superstate. Wooding has claimed never to have seen an episode of the series, and yet his characters -- the morally ambiguous captain with a troubling past as a soldier, the redoubtable (and ethnic) best friend, the upper crust stowaway running from his past life -- match Whedon's routinely. Not only that, whole scenes -- two crewmembers tied to each other as they are tortured, one wisecracking and the other whimpering, or the fish-out-of-water aristocratic ball -- are practical remakes of ones from the TV show. In Wooding's defense, Whedon populated his show with stereotypes and stock situations, adding interest with wrinkles in execution; but the acceptance of Retribution Falls as science fiction feels to me at least in part a consequence of its apparently accidental familiarity.

Read the rest of the book review at www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2010/04/the_2010_arthur.shtml

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:45 AM

DMI

Expired, forgotten, spoiled rotten.

Thanks for pointing this out. I read Strange Horizon's fiction but don't usually look at their other sections.

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