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Doomsday Deck
First edition coverAuthor(s) Diana G. Gallagher Country United States Language English Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Genre(s) Horror novel Publisher Pocket Books Publication date December 2000 Media type Print (paperback) Pages 193 ISBN 0-7434-0041-0 OCLC Number 45306767 LC Classification CPB Box no. 1911 vol. 9 Preceded by The Deathless Followed by Immortal Doomsday Deck is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Plot summary
Joyce Summers is running a local art show for people from around the United States. A girl named Justine shows up the first day to sign in and Xander is immediately attracted to her. She offers to do a Tarot reading for him which he agrees to. Once Xander has touched her magickal deck he comes under her control and has no will of his own. Justine is building a powerful deck of Tarot cards which will allow her to control the fate of the world with the help of the goddess Kali, who, in return, wants ultimate peace on Earth. Only Justine doesn't realize what ultimate peace is and she's come to Sunnydale to collect the last four people she needs to complete her deck of cards. Once her deck has been completed the four people remaining needed for the deck will die like the other eighteen she's used to make the deck. Buffy must figure out how her friends are being controlled and find a way to fight herself out of the power of Justine's Tarot cards.
Canonical issues
Main article: Buffyverse canonBuffy novels 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 merchandise.
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Reviews
- Litefoot1969.bravepages.com - Review of this book by Litefoot
- Teen-books.com - Reviews of this book
- Nika-summers.com - Review of this book by Nika Summers
- Shadowcat.name - Review of this book
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 · Portal Through Time · 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 · Dark CongressBuffy the Vampire Slayer Canon • Index • Joss Whedon Series Main characters Major villains Spin-offs Expanded universe Novels • Undeveloped productions • Video gamesAuxiliary Universe Categories:- 2000 novels
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