Sci-fi thrives on protagonists who perceive what lies beyond the obvious, relying on instinctual judgments that may defy ...

Perhaps the most intriguing character, though, is River Tam. Her brother Simon broke her out of a facility run by the Alliance, making them fugitives onboard Serenity. She's seventeen years old ...

River Tam had a secret - one in which she's not even aware - so dangerous, no one's safe, as an Alliance operative's sent to capture her, and all others are considered irrelevant to his job.