Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
Posted: January 27, 2013 Filed under: Books, Review, Star Wars | Tags: anakin, anakin solo, centerpoint, consortium, Corran Horn, Droma, duros, fondor, han solo, hapes cluster, isolder, jacen, jacen solo, james luceno, kuat, kyp durron, new jedi order, nom anor, ruan, Ryn, senator, star wars, viqi shesh, Vong, yuuzhan vong Leave a commentThe NJO action continues with Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse.
JJ Abrams is Star Wars’s New Hope
Posted: January 25, 2013 Filed under: News, Star Wars | Tags: a new hope, Abrams, arndt, Film, J. J. Abrams, JJ Abrams, Michael Arndt, star trek, star wars, thrawn, toy story, Walt Disney Company, zahn 3 CommentsOdds are you’ve heard that JJ Abrams of Star Trek fame has been selected to direct the new Star Wars movies under the Disney brand. What do I think?
It’s great news. Say what you will about Star Trek, but it was a great movie and a very accessible film. Sure, it messed with the canon, but it messed mostly with the canon from the original series — who cares? Star Trek was languishing with so many bad movies being made from it. Add in the failure of Enterprise to be watched and it was pretty clear someone needed to come in and make it good again. Abrams was the man for that job.
JJ was, allegedly, already approached for the Star Wars movies. He declined originally because, again, allegedly, he didn’t want to touch something so sacred. That’s right — JJ Abrams, a man painted as a money-hungry control freak with a penchant for lens flares was scared of messing up Star Wars. That’s a good sign. And they have a skilled writer in Michael Arndt, so unless Abrams insists on messing with the script too badly, we have nothing to worry about.
A final point, of course, is Disney’s past insistence on the new films not following the canon. Obviously we all want a Thrawn trilogy of films but it’s not going to happen — Zahn‘s magnum opus is going to be left sitting in a parallel universe. That’s something we kind of have to live with. What this means is that even if the new movie(s) are horrible, we can still take solace in the fact that the books haven’t been desecrated.
I would be shocked if Abrams and Arndt could screw this up. They are both big names, they’re both riding off big successes, they’re both nerds, and they both know what’s at stake. They could single-handedly revive a dying franchise that’s only hanging on by the occasional new novel and/or tabletop RPG. Besides — the New trilogy was god awful. How could they do worse?
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero’s Trial
Posted: January 20, 2013 Filed under: Books, Review, Star Wars | Tags: chewbacca, Dark Tide: Ruin, Droma, Elan, han solo, jet, mara jade, new jedi order, russell blake, Ryn, Solo, star wars, Vegere, Vong Leave a commentContinuing with my string of Star Wars novel reviews, here we go with Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero’s Trial (This Time It’s Personal: Part Two: The Re-Jedining: Redux: The Vong Strike Back: Three — seriously, how many subtitles is too many?)
Star Wars: Scoundrels
Posted: January 17, 2013 Filed under: Books, Review, Star Wars | Tags: crime syndicate, han, han solo, Lando, Lando Calrissian, perfect distraction, prince xizor, Scoundrels, star wars, Thrawn trilogy, timothy zahn, Xizor, zahn Leave a commentStar Wars: Winner Lose All–A Lando Calrissian Tale
Posted: January 1, 2013 Filed under: Books, Review, Star Wars | Tags: Bink, e-book, Lando, Lando Calrissian, novella, star wars, Tavia, timothy zahn, zahn, Zerba Leave a commentReleased in early December in preparation for Zahn’s upcoming novel Scoundrels (released today — my copy is in the mail), Winner Lose All — A Lando Calrissian Tale is an e-book novella featuring Lando in a high-stakes sabacc game. The game — with a ten-million credit buy-in — features a rare and valuable piece of art. A small statuette, designed by a mysterious artist, which is completely identical to its twins (of which only seven exist in the galaxy). But an attempted break-in reveals that nothing is as it seems.
Star Wars: Revan
Posted: July 11, 2012 Filed under: Books, Opinion, Review, Star Wars | Tags: awful, bastilla shan, bioware, canderous, canderous ordo, carth onasi, darth scourge, don't read this, drew karpyshyn, horrible, knights of the old republic, kotor, kotor 2, meetra surik, nyriss, revan, sechel, sucks, t3, the emperor, the old republic, tie-in Leave a commentI pre-ordered Star Wars: Revan. It’s a documented fact that I’m a huge KotoR fan, and so when this book was announced I had to have it. I pre-ordered it on my Kindle and the minute it was released I downloaded it and read it. Read the rest of this entry »
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide I: Onslaught
Posted: June 15, 2012 Filed under: Books, Review, Star Wars | Tags: anakin solo, dark tide, han solo, luke skywalker, mara jade skywalker, michael stackpole, new jedi order, onslaught, r. a. salvatore, ruin, star wars, vector prime Leave a commentThe New Jedi Order series continues with Dark Tide I: Onslaught, which happens to be one of the longest titles for a Star Wars book and certainly one with the most colons. Onslaught resumes where Vector Prime left off. The New Republic has dismissed the Yuuzhan Vong threat as having been dealt with and finished with their loss at Helska, but obviously the Original Trilogy gang know that that is not the case.