Spark and Burn

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Spark and Burn

First edition cover
Author Diana G. Gallagher
Country United States
Language English
Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Genre(s) Horror novel
Publisher Pocket Books
Publication date July 26, 2005
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 256 pp
ISBN ISBN 1-4165-0237-8
Preceded by Mortal Fear (Buffy novel)
Followed by Queen of the Slayers (Buffy novel)

Spark and Burn is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Contents

[edit] Plot summary

Spike was born in the nineteenth century as a gentle, intellectual boy named William. As a young adult, he meets a woman called Drusilla, a mysterious vampire. William eventually becomes Spike.

He travels Europe with a band of vicious vampires, Dru, Darla, and Angelus. They show him his new existence, and from them he finds out about that most serious of enemies to vampires, one girl in all the world chosen to fight the vampires and the forces of darkness, the Slayer.

Having found a soul in Africa in the twenty-first century, Spike is tormented by the first evil and the guilt of his vampiric evils. He recalls many of the events that would lead him to the madness in a school basement.

[edit] Trivia

  • Tagline: 'He's the other vampire with a soul'.
  • Buffyverse canon Characters: include Spike, Buffy, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Giles, Angel, Principal Wood, Nikki Wood, Darla, Drusilla, Clem, The First, Cecily, The Anointed One, Joyce, Devon, Ampata, Jonathan, Machida, Dalton, Tom Warner
  • Buffyverse non-canon Characters: include Peak (shapeshifter), Otto (vampire), Pond (amphibian), Trevor, Klaus (Machida's henchmen), Jurgen Koch (Nazi demon hunter).
  • Having no real story so to speak, this book is a character history of Spike's role in the Buffyverse. The author used the episode scripts, and revealed what Spike was doing when he wasn't seen on screen as well as what he had done on screen.

[edit] Continuity

  • Most of the story is supposed to be set during the BtVS's seventh season episode Lessons. However the memories Spike recalls span the whole of Spike's history in the Buffyverse. For example why he was on a World War II sub (Why We Fight), and his earlier memories of the Scooby gang whilst he spied on them in Reptile Boy.

[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: Fall 2002 - December 2002
(non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.01 Lessons
Mexico, 2002 Buffy/Angel book: Seven Crows
L.A., 2002 A4.01 Deep Down
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.02 Beneath You
L.A., 2002 A4.02 Ground State
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.03 Same Time, Same Place
Sunnydale, 2002 Buffy book: Apocalypse Memories
L.A., Las Vegas, 2002 A4.03 The House Always Wins
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.04 Help
L.A., 2002 Angel book: Dark Mirror
Sunnydale, 2002 Buffy book: Mortal Fear
Sunnydale, 2002 Buffy book: Spark and Burn
Sunnydale, L.A., 2002 Buffy/Angel book: Heat
L.A., 2002 A4.04 Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.05 Selfless
L.A., 2002 A4.05 Supersymmetry
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.06 Him
L.A., 2002 Angel book: Solitary Man
L.A., 2002 A4.06 Spin the Bottle
L.A., 2002 Angel book: Love and Death
L.A., 2002 Angel book: Monolith
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.07 Conversations with Dead People
L.A., 2002 A4.07 Apocalypse, Nowish
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.08 Sleeper
L.A., 2002 A4.08 Habeas Corpses
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.09 Never Leave Me
L.A., 2002 A4.09 Long Day's Journey
Sunnydale, 2002 B7.10 Bring on the Night
Unknown, 2002 Tales of the Vampires: Stacey
New York, 2002 Tales of the Vampires: Spot the Vampire
Unknown 2002 Tales of the Vampires: Taking Care of Business
L.A., 2002 A4.10 Awakening

[edit] See also

[edit] Spike comics

[edit] Spike novels

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