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  • Firefly: The Ghost Machine

  • The Firefly Series, Book 3
  • Written by: James Lovegrove
  • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
  • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (49 ratings)

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Firefly: The Ghost Machine

Written by: James Lovegrove
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
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Publisher's Summary

Mal and the crew take receipt of a sealed crate that they are being paid to transport to Badger, no questions asked. Yet once their cargo is safely stowed aboard, River insists Mal should "space" it out of the airlock, for it contains, she insists, ghosts.

With supplies running low, the crew desperately needs another payday but soon finds itself paralyzed by hallucinations of their deepest hopes and desires, so vivid they cannot be distinguished from reality. River is the only one unaffected. She desperately tries to awaken her crew mates, while the fantasies turn sour and the ship begins to spin out of control.

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good, dark, actually book 4

way more violent than the other books. but I thought it was an interesting storyline. my major complaint is this is listed as Book 3, but apparently it is actually Book 4 in the series - I was quite surprised when certain events seemed reversed in "Generations".

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Abhorrent cruelty and horror. Story not consistent with other Firefly Stories

The writer veered off into some of the most grotesque and awful cruelty within the story. This was far outside the normal style of firefly stories and completely unnecessary. This story also did nothing to advance the lore or background of the characters. There were several instances where the description of cruelty was unnerving to listen to. Skip this instalment it's dreadful.

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Unrelevant to the Verse

The main story happens in dreams, so nothing much changes in the Verse of the Firefly characters. A waste of time in my book. And that one too.

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Darker storyline than the usual Firefly.

The story line is darker than usual though all ends well. Not sure I'll listen again, maybe.

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A Slog

Good reading, but I found the story harder to get through than others of the Firefly series.

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a nail biter till the end

more a collection of what ifs and possibility strung together, but gives some good depth to our favorite characters and has you wondering until the end if there going to get our of it

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