Posted: January 27, 2013 | Author: James | 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 |
The NJO action continues with Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse.
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Posted: January 20, 2013 | Author: James | 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 |
Continuing 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?)
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Posted: January 17, 2013 | Author: James | 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 |
Having read
Winner Lose All by
Timothy Zahn, I felt like I was in great shape going into
Scoundrels. Sure, the only similarities are four characters and a single reference to the heist in the short story (which Zahn or the publisher tactlessly refer to on a separate page after the very end of the book — way to go, guys), but the tone of the short story is a great primer.
Posted: June 15, 2012 | Author: James | 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 |
The 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.
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Posted: June 12, 2012 | Author: James | Filed under: Books, Star Wars | Tags: aby, alien, chewbacca, dozen-and-two x-wing avengers, expanded universe, george lucas, han solo, kyp durron, leia organa-solo, luke skywalker, mara jade, mara jade skywalker, new jedi order, new repulic, r. a. salvatore, star wars, the phantom menace, vector prime, yuuzhan vong |
Set 25 years after the Battle of Yavin 4 (ABY, if you will), Vector Prime is an excellent introduction into The New Jedi Order, a series which is essentially the old Star Wars universe gang handing off the torch to the next. Vector Prime begins as most Star Wars novels do: the Skywalker and Solo families deciding to take a vacation when everything seems calm. Unbeknownst to them, the Yuuzhan Vong, an ancient and so far unknown race from outside the galaxy have begun their invasion. They’ve begun so subtly, by having insurgents and the like on various planets pretending to be rebels themselves and upsetting the balance, but they’ve yet to do anything concrete; that’s where we begin.
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Posted: March 2, 2012 | Author: James | Filed under: Books, Review, Star Wars | Tags: a new hope, allegiance, chewbacca, choices of one, darth vader, emperor's hand, expanded universe, han, han solo, hand of judgement, hard contact, karen traviss, larone, leia, leia organa, luke skywalker, mara jade, nuso esva, palpatine, pellaeon, r. a. salvatore, skywalker, star wars, stormtroopers, the empire strikes back, thrawn, timothy zahn, vader, zahn |
Another Star Wars book review! Exciting!
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Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: James | Filed under: Review, Star Wars | Tags: a. c. crispin, alderaan, bria, carie fisher, chewbacca, coruscant, dewlanna, empire, expanded universe, han solo, harrison ford, imperials, kashyyk, leia, luke skywalker, not that good, novels, princess leia, rebellion, rebels, review, star, star wars, wars |
I first read Star Wars: The Paradise Snare a little while after it came out, back in 1997. I was just a kid and I thought it was a pretty rad book, all in all. On a whim I picked it up again and gave it another reading. I was sorely disappointed. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 3, 2012 | Author: James | Filed under: Books, Review, Star Wars | Tags: a new hope, bioware, chiss, clones, coruscant, dark force rising, empire strikes back, expanded universe, george lucas, gilad pellaeon, grand admiral, grand admiral thrawn, han solo, joruus c'baoth, knights of the old republic, leia organa, leia organa-solo, luke skywalker, mara jade, mike baron, new republic, noghri, old republic, original trilogy, pellaeon, princess leia, rebel alliance, return of the jedi, spaarti cloning cylinders, star wars, talon karrde, the clone wars, the last command, the thrawn trilogy, thrawn, timothy zahn |
1983 is a significant date in the history of Star Wars; not only did it mark the release of Return of the Jedi, but it was also the last year in the 1980s that a Star Wars book would be published (not if you count the Star Wars Roleplaying Game sourcebook that was released in 1987). After Return of the Jedi, there were fears that the whole “Star Wars” thing had dried up and that public interest was waning. For all intents and purposes, Star Wars was dead. Read the rest of this entry »