Published between 2005-2025, the Firefly creatives kept finding new ways to keep thee ‘Verse alive. Short stories appeared, written by the writers to expand the gap between the series and the movie, a gap that in theory takes place over a year a half before the movie.
While the majority of the history of the ‘Verse plays out either in comic or novel formats, there are a few shorts and vignettes that also add information to what we already know. After all, space is very big…
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Fun with Dick and Jayne
by Ben Edlund
Notes: The earliest known story in the Firefly canon, a picture book depicting Jayne as a young boy.
Crystal
by Brett Matthews
Notes: River sees various events that take place in the future, such as Zoe’s grief for Wash, Book’s death and Wash being impaled on the bridge.
What Holds Us Down
by Jane Espenson
Take the Sky
by Jose Molina
Notes: This story ends with Mal defeating the Operative at the end of Serenity. His future version seen in this story is, presumably, his imagination.
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