You may remember a few months ago there was a stir about an original Serenity novel called “Dark Mirror” that suddenly appeared on Diamond Comics’ order sheet and in several online comic stores listings. No one knew anything solid about how it got there, but it seemed to be a maddening glitch, possibly related to the placeholding-yet-nonexistent Serenity book “Mirror Image” which has been in Amazon for over a year now and continues to plague credited author Keith R. A. DeCandido at Q and As ever since.
Tonight I was googling along, looking for something else entirely, when I found a copy of the 2006 summer catalog for Pocket Books. And on page 79, I found this:
Which would explain why Diamond thought it was real. Apparently, so did Pocket Books.
No author listed, and no clue where the name or description came from. But they had been planning on publishing original Serenity novels around this time, and Simon and Schuster did release an X-Men novel called “Dark Mirror” earlier this year and an Angel novel by the same name previously, and there was a Star Trek “Dark Mirror” book, so some confusion might be expected. Damed frustrating, though.
Interestingly enough, under the SubRights section towards the end “Mirror Image” is still listed. Maybe Pocket just needs to clean out their database?
The description did come with a shot of the cover, though?!? Someone had to take some time to put it all together…
The description did come with a shot of the cover, though?!? Someone had to take some time to put it all together…
The description did come with a shot of the cover, though?!? Someone had to take some time to put it all together…
The description did come with a shot of the cover, though?!? Someone had to take some time to put it all together…
would to see a sequel to Serenity. It’s so realistic a portrayal of the future.