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: The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
Posted: June 12, 2012 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 Leave a comment
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.
Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy
Posted: February 3, 2012 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 6 Comments
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 »
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