Books

Christie Golden’s ‘Valerian’ novelization delightfully digs into Valerian-Laureline relationship (Book review)

After seeing “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” my No. 1 movie of 2017, I wanted to spend more time in the world,

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Night of the Living Rerun’ (1998) (Book review)

Arthur Byron Cover’s “Night of the Living Rerun” (March 1998), the third original novel in the young-adult line, anticipates future episodes like “I Only Have

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Coyote Moon’ (1998) (Book review)

Written by John Vornholt with only Season 1 to draw from, “Coyote Moon” (January 1998) – the second young-adult novel – is a time capsule of that

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Giles, Pike star in ‘Buffy: Sins of the Father’ (1999)

Did you know that during Season 3, Giles was once tormented by the return of his father as a vampire – something that’s even more

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‘Buffy’ moves to bookshelves for ‘Halloween Rain’ (1997)

With the very first piece of “Buffy” spinoff fiction, “Halloween Rain” (November 1997), Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder do two things: 1) Demonstrate their love and knowledge

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Immortal’ (1999) (Book review)

For the “Buffy” series’ first hardcover novel, Pocket Books makes “Immortal” (October 1999) worthy of the format with cleaner copy than what was found in the paperbacks,

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PKD sees future in ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ (1968)

One of the fun things about re-reading golden age sci-fi novels is seeing how their predictions compare to reality now that we’re coming upon the

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Obsidian Fate’ (1999) (Book review)

After the excellent Golden/Holder “Gatekeeper Trilogy,” I braced myself for a letdown with Diana G. Gallagher’s first entry in the “Buffy” series, “Obsidian Fate” (September 1999). While

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 3: Sons of Entropy’ (1999) (Book review)

Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder’s “The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 3: Sons of Entropy” (May 1999) is so epic that Joyce describes it as “almost an entire month

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 2: Ghost Roads’ (1999) (Book review)

In my review of “Out of the Madhouse,” I noted that it can only take place between “Revelations” and “Lovers Walk,” and that we just

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