These Our Actors

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name = These Our Actors
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Ashley McConnell & Dori Koogler
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country = United States
language = English
series = Buffy the Vampire Slayer
genre = Horror novel
publisher = Pocket Books
release_date = September 2002
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 320 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-7434-5034-5
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followed_by = Wisdom of War (Buffy novel)

These Our Actors is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy.

Plot summary

Even though Buffy decided to drop drama class to concentrate on her slaying and taking care of Dawn, Willow still decided keep the class on her course list. She becomes engrossed in it, especially when the teacher, Professor Addams, begins discussing about rituals and chants involved in old dramatic works. Unfortunately, the professor, realizing that Willow has some power of her own, decides to use her for his own ways. He needs to locate a particularly powerful book used to summon the Fates, which he believes is located somewhere in Sunnydale. Spike and Willow realise that the professor is actually the father of Spike's mortal love interest, Cecily, who is attempting to use the power of the fates to resurrect his daughter after he accidentally killed her due to Spike's actions in his early days as a vampire.

Continuity

*Set in Buffy Season 5. Willow and Tara's relationship is known by the Scooby Gang.
*The book assumes that Cecily (here named 'Addams') and Halfrek are not one and the same; indeed, Cecily is killed during the flashbacks.

Canonical issues

:main|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.

Timing

*Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

ee also

*Buffy Novels. These tend to surround the character of Buffy and the fictional town of Sunnydale
*Angel Novels. These instead focus on Angel and his soc called 'Fang Gang'
*“Tales of the Slayer” These chronicle the stories of past slayers
*All of the above can be described as “Buffyverse novels”

External links

Reviews

* [http://litefoot1969.bravepages.com/sf/buffy/novels2/22.htm "Litefoot1969.bravepages.com" - Review of this book by Litefoot]
* [http://www.nika-summers.com/Library/noveltheseouractors.php "Nika-summers.com" - Review of this book by Nika Summers]