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There is not enough “shiny” in the ‘verse
Steven Brust has posted his Firefly novel online under a Creative Commons license.
ETA: A bit of backstory on how this came about, from a 2006 con report.
Posted on February 5, 2008 at 1:45 pm in Books, Television · 1 comment
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