TV Series· 2002· Science Fiction

Firefly

by Joss Whedon

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The Killer Angels

Book · 1974

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Joss Whedon has said Firefly began with reading Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, and wanting to follow people on the losing side of a civil war after it was lost. Mal Reynolds is a veteran of the defeated Browncoats.

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Firefly

Set in the Firefly universe.

A renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters living aboard Serenity. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things."

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