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  Name Doomsday Deck
  Author Diana G Gallagher
  Publisher Pocket Books
  Release Date December 2000
  Pages 193
  Preceded By The Evil That Men Do (Buffy Novel)
  Followed By Immortal (Buffy Novel)


Doomsday Deck is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy .


BOOK DESCRIPTION


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.


TRIVIA


  • Tagline: 'Who's dealing out trouble'.

  • Buffyverse Canon characters include: Buffy, Angel, Willow, Xander, Giles, Cordelia, Joyce, Anya

  • Buffyverse Non-canon characters include: Justine Camille (tarot reader & artist); Rob Chambers (photo journalist)

  • The idea that ultimate peace is the destruction of the world would later ambiguously be used in 'Angel', in the episode Shiny Happy People and the following four episodes.



CONTINUITY


  • Supposed to be set late in Buffy Season 3: Anya is pursuing Xander. However it takes place before Cordelia is working in the clothes shop.



Canonical issues

See Also: Buffyverse canon



: Buffy 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.


Timing


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





SEE ALSO




External link

Nika Summer's Buffy Library