Novels

  • Aim to Misbehave

    Aim to Misbehave

    It all started with the geese. The Firefly crew is eager to get paid for their latest job, but when payment arrives as a gaggle of geese instead of a…

  • Coup de Grâce

    Coup de Grâce

    The Serenity crew head to Yell City, one of the settlements on Abel, a moon in the Rim. Their job: track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead…

  • History of the ‘Verse

    History of the ‘Verse

    A brief history of the ‘Verse, circa 2507 A.D.

  • What Makes Us Mighty

    What Makes Us Mighty

    A simple job Serenity is bound for the planet Kerry with a hold full of sealed, unidentified cargo for the planet’s highest-ranking nobleman. The duke is a surprisingly genial man…

  • Carnival

    Carnival

    Bethel’s capital Neapolis is more like the Core than most worlds on the Rim. Mal Reynolds has no love for Neapolis, but a job’s a job: two hundred platinum to…

  • Life Signs

    Life Signs

    Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl’s Myeloma, a form…

  • Generations

    Generations

    On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The former owner insists it’s worthless; back…

  • The Ghost Machine

    The Ghost Machine

    Mal’s crew desperately need another payday, but not desperately enough to transport a Blue Sun flight case to Badger, no questions asked, when the area is swarming with Alliance spacecraft…

  • Angel: The Novels

    Angel: The Novels

    The Angel novels are the official tie‑in books for the TV series — mostly original stories, with one novelization and a short‑story anthology in the mix. They ran from 1999…

  • The Magnificent Nine

    The Magnificent Nine

    Captain Mal Reynolds is in a fix. He’d like nothing more than to find honest smuggling work that stays under the Alliance’s radar and keeps the good ship Serenity in…

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Novels

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Novels

    The Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels are the long‑running line of official tie‑in books — some adapting episodes, most telling original stories that slip into the gaps of the show.…

  • Big Damn Hero

    Big Damn Hero

    It should have been a routine job, transporting five crates from the planet of Persephone to a waiting buyer… Sure, Mal. ‘Cause everything out here always goes according to the…

Welcome to The Watcher’s Guide, a resource, quite fittingly, back from the dead!

The original website shut down in 2004, following the cancellation of Angel. But Buffy the Vampire Slayer was no flash in the pan. It inspired and changed the way television was made and 30 years later, we’re still discussing the show and hoping for something new from the creative universe built over 254 episodes.

Firefly and Dollhouse also brought unique looks at the human condition in a fresh and innovative way, with a science-fiction twist, just as the BuffyVerse dealt with fantasy.

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The ultimate guide to the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. No copyright infringement is intended. Originally published as “The Watcher’s Guide: A Mutant Enemy Resource” from 2002-2004 [Wayback Machine]

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