J.C. Hutchins' podcast novel 7th Son will get a little touch of the Verse on Nov. 14 when Firefly's Nathan Fillion recaps "the story so far" for the book's listeners. This isn't the first time Hutchins has had such notable guest narrators; others include Robert J. Sawyer (Mindscan, Neanderthal Parallax trilogy), Mike Resnick (Santiago, the Starship series), Tracy R. Hickman (Dragonlance series) and Jeph Loeb (writer/co-executive producer for NBC's Heroes, Batman: The Long Halloween).

According to Hutchins:

7th Son is a free weekly podcast novel. The story chronicles the lives of seven strangers who have been brought together after the recent assassination of the U.S. president. These men quickly discover they all appear to be the same man, with identical childhood memories. Unwitting participants in a human cloning experiment, these "John Michael Smiths" have been assembled to catch the man who murdered the president. Their target? The man they were cloned from ... the original John Michael Smith, code-named John Alpha."