Death Star: The (enh.) Novel

[mike_smith]

I'd seen there was a new Star Wars book coming out titled Death Star, which promised to cover the entire history of... well, the Death Star. A few days ago I noticed it at the bookstore and decided to give it a try. As I've stated before, I'm not a big enough Star Wars fan to buy every single book they make, but I do take some interest in the

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[eruvadhril]

he creates a fake ID for himself under the name "Teh Roxxor".

Oh, ouch.

[jmnlman]

Daala is also umm very well endowed according to the official artwork. Although it has her as a brunette. Which one of the little punks goes evil?

[mike_smith]

Jaicen Solo, which should have been obvious to the parents, since they gave him such a stupid name. Now goes by "Darth Caedus", which sounds halfway decent, since it was bestowed to him by the Dark Lords of the starwars.com Premium Subscriber Poll.

[jmnlman]

Now I feel vindicated on giving up on the books when I did.

[jmnlman]

When I was between eight and ten, I read the Young Jedi Knights books. I've read nothing that takes place after them on the timeline. I only know about the recent events through the Star Wars wiki. Therefore, the idea of him being the new Emperor and evil and crazy is inexpressibly hilarious. The YJK books were good as children's books, but I feel so bad for anyone trying to make them fit into canon in novels for grownups--no, not books for grownups. I mean books for anyone who's hit puberty.

Spoiler alert, 'cause I don't know how to do tags: It's even funnier if you pretend he killed Mara Jade because he hates shippers. The fanfic writers finally got their way and married off all the main characters with little children, some of whom are named after dead people, and then Caedus (because just typing that other name makes me feel stupid) murders her and starts going through the cast with a chainsaw. It's great.

[adam_0oo]

Oh wow, I had no idea the expanded universe had real time aged like that. I read the Thrawn books and a few Daala ones and a few others, all taking place within a few years of the end of Jedi, but that was it. I would have thought they would have kept it in a perpetual same time like they do in DC or Marvel. But I guess they are trying to make it a more serious and believeable, so everybody needs to get old and continuity needs to count.

[madderbrad]

If Daala's the example of what the Expanded Universe authors can come up with, then I don't regret ignoring those books.

I was reading all the Star Wars books I could find up until around 2000 or so, but found most of them pretty mediocre. Particularly the seemingly thousands penned by Kevin J. Anderson, whom I thought was just an adequate author. Don't know why his work appears so much in the Star Wars field.

The only *really good* books, I reckon, are the Zahn ones (although I haven't read his last) and 'The Courtship of Princess Leia', I don't remember the author.

[jmnlman]

The author is Dave Wolverton. Courtship has one of the most laughable assassination attempts in SF. The Star Wars equivalent of a drive-by shooting.

[madderbrad]

You'll have to refresh my memory as to the 'drive-by'; I only read it the once. But I remember being impressed, enjoying the way that the Force was utilised by both Luke and the witches. It had an energy and a readability that I found missing in most other Star Wars books, other than the Zahn novels.

[jmnlman]

As I recall it's been years Leia and Han were leaving an embassy[I think] building a Speeder drives near them rolls down its window and starts blasting away. Then speeds off. Then a maintenance droid start shooting at them. It was just terrible.

The Nightsisters were a nice change. I agree the writing was certainly better then the usual phone in jobs [Kevin J. Anderson I'm looking at you].

I don't feel the need to rant in response, just...

[anonymous]

Go screw yourself.