Crossings (Buffy novel)

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Crossings
First edition cover
Author Mel Odom
Country United States
Language English
Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Genre(s) Horror novel
Publisher Pocket Books
Released June 2002
Media Type Print (Paperback)
Pages 243 pp
ISBN ISBN
Preceded by Little Things (Buffy novel)
Followed by Sweet Sixteen (Buffy novel)

Crossings is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy.

Contents

[edit] Plot summary

While at the theater for a Star Trek marathon with Anya, Xander recognizes a friend of his, from the arcade, enter the theater and begin threatening and beating humans in a very demonic way. Upon further inspection, Xander learns that his friend, Robby, was involved in total immersion VR video game beta testing. But the testing was a little too secretive, according to Robby's girlfriend. Meanwhile, Buffy and Dawn are having issues with one another, and Buffy doesn't know how to deal with being Dawn's new "mom" after the recent death of their own mother. After much research concerning the bizarre video game tests, and the appearance of a man named Bobby Lee Tooker, the group discovers that the video game isn't so much a video game, as much as it is another dimensional portal while the human bodies are being taken over by demons. Buffy and Xander need to find a way to get these beta testers back into the real world and destroy the evil demon who's using the testers to conjure a powerful being.

[edit] Trivia

  • Tagline: 'A video game has a deadly outcome'.
  • Buffyverse canon characters include: Buffy, Willow, Anya, Xander, Spike, Willy, Tara, Giles, Dawn, Amy (as rat)
  • Buffyverse non-canon characters include: Robby Healdton (Xander's friend); Stephie McConnell (Robby's girlfriend); Bobby Lee Tooker (demon hunter); Derek Traynor (medium); Dredfahl (villain); Malik (demon); Torqualmar (demon)

[edit] Continuity

  • Supposed to be set in Buffy Season 5.

[edit] Canonical issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon
Buffy/Angel books such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy/Angel merchandise.

[edit] Timing

  • Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
Location, time
(if known)
Buffyverse chronology: January 2001 - Spring 2001
(non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.12 Checkpoint
L.A., 2001 A2.12 Blood Money
L.A., 2001 A2.13 Happy Anniversary
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.13 Blood Ties
L.A., 2001 A2.14 The Thin Dead Line
L.A., 2001 A2.15 Reprise
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.14 Crush
L.A., 2001 A2.16 Epiphany
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy book: Wisdom of War
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.15 I Was Made to Love You
L.A., 2001 A2.17 Disharmony
L.A., 2001 Angel book: Vengeance
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.16 The Body
L.A., 2001 A2.18 Dead End
L.A., 2001 Angel book: Haunted
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.17 Forever
L.A., 2001 A2.19 Belonging
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy graphic novel: Ugly Little Monsters
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy comic: 'Chaos Bleeds' prequel
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy video game: Chaos Bleeds
L.A., 2001 Tales of the Slayer: Again, Sunnydale
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.18 Intervention
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy book: Tempted Champions
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy book: Little Things
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy book: Crossings
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy book: Sweet Sixteen
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.19 Tough Love
L.A., 2001 A2.20 Over the Rainbow
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.20 Spiral
L.A., 2001 A2.21 Through the Looking Glass
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.21 The Weight of the World
Sunnydale, 2001 B5.22 The Gift
L.A., 2001 A2.22 There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy graphic novel: Death of Buffy: Lost & Found’
Sunnydale, 2001 Buffy graphic novel: Death of Buffy

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Buffy novels


Buffy books in order of Buffyverse chronology

Tales of the Slayer | Pretty Maids All in a Row | Blackout | Halloween Rain | Coyote Moon | Night of the Living Rerun | How I Survived My Summer Vacation | Keep Me In Mind | The Suicide King | Colony | Night Terrors | After Image | Carnival of Souls | Blooded | Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary | Sins of the Father | Child of the Hunt | Ghoul Trouble | Paleo | The Evil That Men Do | The Deathless | Doomsday Deck | Immortal | Prime Evil | Power of Persuasion | Revenant | The Gatekeeper | Resurrecting Ravana | Return to Chaos | Visitors | Unnatural Selection | Obsidian Fate | Deep Water | Here Be Monsters | The Book of Fours | Sunnydale High Yearbook | Lost Slayer | Oz | These Our Actors | Unseen | Tempted Champions | Little Things | Crossings | Sweet Sixteen | Wisdom of War | Cursed | Blood and Fog | Monster Island | Wicked Willow | Seven Crows | Apocalypse Memories | Mortal Fear | Spark and Burn | Heat | Queen of the Slayers

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