Set your plasma pistols for “studying,” Orville followers.
Collection creator/star Seth MacFarlane introduced on Monday the digital launch of The Orville: Sympathy for the Satan, an unique novella that he penned which is ready instantly after the occasions of the present season’s eighth episode.
Conceived as a Season 3 episode that finally couldn’t be filmed as a result of assorted COVID-related delays, the novella finds Captain Ed Mercer and his crew coming face-to-face with considered one of humanity’s most vile ideologies, after which they need to “remedy the ethical conundrum of who to carry accountable for evil deeds actual… and imagined.”
“On account of Covid shutdowns, we needed to scrap one episode of The Orville: New Horizons,” McFarlane explained on Twitter, sharing a pre-order hyperlink. “It was an outlier — a conceptually experimental story. Reasonably than let it vanish, I made a decision to adapt it as a novelization.”
The duvet artwork for The Orville: Sympathy for the Satan , which will probably be launched July 9, is an unique piece from Invoice Sienkiewicz, an Eisner-winning, Emmy-nominated artist finest identified for revamping the type of comedian and graphic novel illustration.
The audiobook will probably be narrated by very latest Orville visitor star/Babylon 5 alum Bruce Boxleitner.
The Orville‘s New Horizons season continues this Thursday with the discharge of Episode 5 (of 10).
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