f4f3 | Now this is my kind of Fan Fic

I like Steven Brust - he's a Fantasy and SF writer who tends to feature hard-boiled heroes with a dry sense of humour. He works the same end of the street with his Taltos novels that Roger Zelazny worked with his Amber books, and if I choose to consider Uncle Rog to be the better writer, it does not make Brust a bad one.

I likeFirefly - I think it's witty, literate SF with a heart of gold.

At one point Brust was retained to write a Firefly tie-in novel, "My Own Kind of Freedom", and presumably there was some hitch about contracts or payment or some such. The upshot of that is that the book is available from Brust's website. under a creative commons licence, and you can read it for free.

I liked it - it has the same ear for dialogue as the original, it throws in some minor background embellishments to the world and to the characters, and if it doesn't make the world a better place it surely doesn't make it a worse one.

For fans of the series, it's set between "Objects in Space" and "Serenity", for SF fans (or readers in general) it's a fast moving piece of Space Opera, and for slashy types, well, you know all that non-con Jayne/Simon stuff? You'll have to write it youselves.