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What ability does Tom Baldwin get?


Any speculation or knowledge?

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*****MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK*******


Tom gets the ability to generate force fields. He's also immune to telepathic abilities.

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She stays dead =( There may be more books coming, though, so who knows.

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Force fields??

For some reason I always imagined his ability would be to make everyone promicon compatable. That would also explain why the future was so determined he would take it.

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Check out the book! When the ability manifests itself, it is quite an epic moment, and it's explained, and makes total sense in the end.

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I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but which book? Aren't there about four of them out there now?

I'm a late comer to the 4400 but...better late than never! :-)

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There are indeed 4 books.

Vesuvius Prophecy: Takes place after the events of Graduation Day
Wet Work: Takes place throughout Season 1 and 2
Welcome to Promise City: Takes place about a year after The Great Leap Forward
Promises Broken: Takes place recently after Welcome to Promise City

The first two are good, but aren't particularly eye opening. Check out the last 2, because they're after the show.

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When Jordan was going to inject him with promicin earlier I had thought that a good ability for him would be immunity from 4400 abilities

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wtf...there are books that continue the story?
Are they any good and canon or are they poorly fanbased wishfull ramblings (before I go to amazon and order it only to be dissapointed)

Especially since the directors cut version of the last episode somewhat finishes allmost all the " big" questions. I would hate if a non-canon book would go against all that.

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No, the books were very well written, and felt like natural parts of the story. I don't know if they're considered canon or not, but that's just because the writers and directors never really made announcements about things. I consider them canon. But that's the way it usually is with extended universes. They're always of questionable canonicity.

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Sorry to be ignorant but what are 'canon' books??

Do agree though that the books are excellent - almost felt like I was watching the show!! The authors researched well and all past references were accurate.
Must reads definitely!!

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Canon means "considered true" or factual by way of the original authors or shows point of view... For example... Its safe to assume that light sabers from star wars come on many colors.. Onscreen we have seen red green blue and purple. Those lighsaber colors are canon.. They were put out by the company that owned the rights.. Its official.. But if someone writes a fan book with a rainbow colored light saber that would not be canon... However..the company that owns star wars can look at that book and say... We agree that this story fits in our universe and we are making this an official book for our series.. Then its now canon.. And can be considered official.

Another example.. If the writer for the 4400 added a second ball of light that brought more people.. And then they brought the show back.. They could follow the story of that book and then that boom would be canon... But if they didn't then it wouldn't be..

Its basically up to a show or the creator or owner of the material to decide if work made by fans is considered official.. Its not something that happens a lot.. But it can happen.. Lucas arts has a whole department dedicated Tobit due to the massive number of fan books.. If its in the 4400 TV show. Its official.. Its canon.. Unless these books have been publicly recognized to be canon by the owner of the show.. Then they are simply someone else's take on how the show could have went on from there.. And not necessarily how it really would have

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Are they any good and canon or are they poorly fanbased wishfull ramblings

I found the 2 books set after the series ended to be quite good, myself. And I've heard that Greg Cox (who wrote the first of them) and David Mack (who wrote the second of those final 2) have both stated that they drew their inspirations for their stories from canon material/ideas that had been simmering for the show. I believe that I read that Greg said that TPTB had a rough outline of where Season 5 might have gone and that he used that as a blueprint.

So yes, I would say it's canon compliant.

I do find it interesting that the last book actually ends on a cliffhanger, thus lending more credence to the idea that it was an idea from the series (where they likely would have used it as that season's finale).



Pardon my Klatchian.

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Can anyone give me a spoiler filled rundown of the 2 books.. Doesn't have to be super long.. Just a breakdown of major events and the ending

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