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X
wing: Starfighters of Adumar. The latest book in this fabulously
entertaining series depicting the adventures of Rogue Squadron.
Arguably the best series of Star Wars orginal fiction to come
out in the past several years every book in this series is a joy
to read. I love how Lucas' people have made a tightly knit world
between the various licenses of the Star Wars universe. One can
easily see one's self behind the flightstick of an Xwing in one
of these books. Especially if one has played any of the Xwing
games available on PC. It's a very nice touch that lends credibility
to the series. You find yourself saying, yeah! I believe that.
I did that once in the game.
The third in the bounty hunter
wars series. Unfortunately I cannot give you my impression of
this book becuase of the author. K.W. Jeter is one of the worst
authors I've ever read. My first exposure to him was the first
and only DS9 hardcover called Warped. That book was awful, simply
awful. It was so bad I kept putting off buying the first in this
series when I saw who wrote it. I finally bought it but only got
half way through it before giving up. The book stinks. And I doubt
the series is going to get any better. Read at your own risk!!
I wouldn't recommend this author to his own mother.
The Phantom
Menace. Sixteen years we waited for a new movie. Sixteen years.
I was twelve when Return of the Jedi came out and had to wait
until I was twenty eight to see a new one. But it's finally here.
You can read my review of the movie here.
The book is very, very good. A lot of background detail and scenes
not in the movie go into the novelization of the greatest movie
in the last sixteen years. Information about the podracers and
the track as well as Anakin racing against Sebulba in the race
where he "flashed his jets" causing Anakin to loose
Watto's pod racer are detailed in this book. Also more information
about the Sith and what exactly they will "at last have our
revenge" for.
This is a definite must for Hard
core Star Wars fans. I say hard core becuase only they would spend
the fifty dollars it's takes to add the Star Wars encyclopedia
to thier library. With entries covering the movies, books, comic
books, cartoons and more this has it all. The cover bothers me
just a little bit though. Why is Luke's blade red and Vader's
blue?
The perfect
companion piece to the Star Wars encyclopedia is what is basically
the Star Wars dictionary. A quick and easy reference guide not
quite as complete as the encyclopedia, but a hell of lot cheaper
and easier to carry around.
Orginally three books (scans of
which I'll have later) now released as an omnibus comes the Lando
Calrissian series. This depicts some of Lando's adventures aboard
his ship the Millenium Falcon before losing it to Solo. These
aren't the greatest of books but if you've read everything else
and are still hungry for more while waiting for the next release
give 'em a spin. The discriminating palate may want to hold off
on reading these.
Orginally
three books (scans of which I'll have later) now released as an
omnibus comes the Han Solo series. Much like the lando series
these are not the best of stories and fall short when compared
to later books. However it does have some interesting things in
them like how some of the modifications to the Falcon came
to be and a person by the name of Gallandro who could out draw
Solo.
This book I have been waiing for
ever since the movie came out. Another must buy.
We all know that Leia and Han
eventually get married and have three powerful force user children.
But how did that romance finally come to that path? Find out in
this book.
The trekkies amoung you will recognise
the author wh wrote this book, Vonda McIntyre. She should stick
to writing Star Trek. This book was awful. She took a unique interpretation
of how the force works and built an entire story around it. In
my judgment that interpretation was flawed and doomed the story.
She just doesn't seem to have a feel for the Star Wars universe
or their characters. This book is for "I must own every book
die hard fans" only. 
Another of the Luke gets a girl
and loses her books. The differance being this time is that the
girl in question was dead by the time Luke met her. This book
is really good. Proof that Trek writers can do Star Wars despite
McIntrye and Jeter.
Ahhh the focal point for the the multimedia blitz that was Shadows
of the Empire. Toys, soundtracks and videogames accompanyed the
release of this book. While it makes a great videogame the book
was lame. Which is a shame becuase they're are so few stories
told between Empire and Jedi. Things in this book were just too
convient though. If one party was in trouble the other would show
up just in the nick of time and vice versa. Lando always
knew someone, in every port, station and planet they were on.
Thjere's was always someone he knew to help them. Even hard core
fans should avoid this one.
Somewhere
in the galaxy, millions suddenly perish--a disruption of the Force
so shocking it is felt by Luke at his Jedi academy and by Leia
on Coruscant. While Leia must deal with an assassination attempt,
a rumored plot against the New Republic, and allegations that
Han Solo is involved, Luke seeks out a former Jedi student who
may hold the key to the mass destruction. But Brakiss is only
the bait in a deadly trap set by a master of the dark side who
is determined to rule as emperor. He's targeted Luke, Leia, and
Leia's Jedi children to die. Then billions will follow, in a holocaust
unequaled in galactic history.
Luke Skywalker and
Han Solo, cloaked by the Force and riding with the hostile Sand
People, have returned to the dunes of the desert planet Tatooine
in hopes of finding what Luke so desperately seeks: contact with
Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke is hoping the old Jedi Knight's spirit will
tell him how to help his love, Callista, regain her lost ability
to use the Force. Tormented and haunted, Luke cannot rest until
Callista is a Jedi in the fullest sense, for only then will the
link between their minds and souls be restored. Yet brewing on
Tatooine is news that will shake Luke and Han and threaten everything
they value.
Nam Chorios is a barren
backwater world--once a dreaded prison colony, now home to a fanatic
religious cult. It is here that Princess Leia has been taken captive
by a ruthless and charismatic warlord bent on destroying the New
Republic. Meanwhile, Luke lands on a mysterious planet in search
of his lost love, Callista, only to discover the Force is his
own worst enemy. But worst of all, as Han, Chewie, and Lando leave
Coruscant on a desperate rescue mission, a strange life-form,
unlike any the galaxy has ever seen, awakens...a life-form so
malevolent it will destroy everything--both Empire and New Republic--on
its path to domination
Corran
Horn has distinguished himself as one of the best and brightest
of Rogue Squadron's elite fighting force. Then his wife, Mirax,
vanishes on a covert mission for the New Republic, and Corran
vows to find her. To do so, he knows he must develop the latent
Force powers inherited from his grandfather, a legendary Jedi
hero. He joins Luke Skywalker's famed Jedi academy to begin training,
only to quit in frustration at Skywalker's methods. Now Corran
is on his own. Using his Corellian undercover experience, he must
infiltrate, sabotage, and destroy a ruthless organization in order
to find his wife. But to succeed, Corran will have to come to
terms with his Jedi heritage--and make a terrible choice: surrender
to the dark side...or die.
It is a time of tranquillity for
the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete
disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought
power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. Yesterday's
Rebels have become today's administrators and diplomats, and the
factions that fought against imperial tyranny seem united in savoring
the fruits of peace.
As Leia must deal with a new threat
to the fragile alliance that binds the New Republic, Lando becomes
a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of unknown origin. The
ship is following an unstoppable path to its homeworld, destroyed
by Imperial forces. Luke continues his quest to learn more about
his mother among the Fallanassi, where his every belief about
the use of the Force is about to be challenged. And while Leia
ponders a diplomatic solution to the aggression of the fierce
Yevetha race, Han pilots a spy ship into the heart of Yevethan
space and finds himself a hostage on one of the vast fleet of
warships under the command of a ruthless leader. 
Faced with an alarming image of
Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an
urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take
a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat--even at the cost of
Han's life. As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to
the runaway Qella spaceship, Luke's continuing search for his
mother brings him dangerously close to Nil Spaar's deadly forces.
And as the Yevetha close in on the forces of the New Republic,
Luke takes a desperate gamble with an invisible weapon... 
This novel begins with Han's late
teen years and shows us how he escaped an unhappy adopted home
situation to carve out a new life for himself as a pilot. 
Solo is now a fugitive
from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a
former Wookiee slave named Chewbacca, who has sworn Han a life
debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the Ylesian Hutts
have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down
the man who already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find
themselves in even bigger trouble when they agree to lend their
services to the crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutt. Suddenly
the two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between
the might of the Empire and the treachery of their outlaw allies...a
battle where even victory means death! 
A
trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home world
he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet with
Leia, their children and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun
with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself
part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even he understands. One
thing is clear: the five inhabited worlds of the sector are on
the brink of civil war and the once peaceful coexistence of the
three leading races -- human, Selonian, and Drallan -- has come
to an end.
In a far corner of the universe,
on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled
cantina where you can down your favorite intoxicant while listening
to the best jazz riffs in the universe. But beware your fellow
denizens of this pangalactic watering hole, for they are cutthroats
and cutpurses, assassins and troopers, humans and aliens, gangsters
and thieves....
In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers,
and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only
the professional bounty hunters-amoral adventurers who track down
the scum of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to
strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and
the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful-and
feared-hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have
two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life...
Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell,
Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers and Dave Wolverton. 
Culled from the pages of the Star
Wars Adventure Journal, one of the most popular Star Wars magazines
in the field today, comes this exciting new short-story collection.
Here are stories from such award-winning and New York Times bestselling
authors as Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole and Kathy Tyers
as well as exciting newcomers, including Erin Endom, Laurie Burns,
and Patricia A. Jackson. From the desperate flight of a civilian
mail courier carrying vital Rebel intelligence through an Imperial
blockade, to a suicidal commando raid on an impregnable Imperial
prison, to a Corellian smuggler mysteriously hired by an actor
turned Jedi Knight turned Imperial assassin for one final transformation,
these tales capture all the high adventure, imaginative genius,
and nonstop action that are the hallmarks of the Star Wars saga.
See
new releases for information concerning this series.
