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Book
Blackout
Spike's in town to slay a slayer...
About
Author(s)	Keith R.A. DeCandido
Publication date	August 29, 2006
Length	256 pages
Published by	Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN	ISBN 1416919171

Blackout was a novel written by Keith R.A. DeCandido based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Synopsis Edit

It is 1977, the summer of a brutal blackout, the time of the Son of Sam murders, and a period of brutal fiscal disaster for New York. The slayer Nikki Wood fights against the forces of darkness and also tries to protect her son, Robin. Meanwhile Spike and Drusilla arrive in the city hoping to hunt down a slayer, not without the local vampire community soon discovering of their arrival.

Appearances Edit

• Buffy Summers
• Nikki Wood
• Robin Wood
• Bernard Crowley
• Spike
• Drusilla

Behind the ScenesEdit

• One of the few Buffy the Vampire Slayer books in which Buffy herself does not play a significant role (she is in a framing sequence, but not the "main action" of the novel).

• There actually was a blackout in New York on 13 July 1977, during which the city suffered riots, looting, and fires.

• Looking for an appropriate style to the novel, the author watched the films: Shaft, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, Superfly, The Black Godfather, Hell Up in Harlem, Across 110th Street and Shaft's Big Score.