Star Wars Books Thread

[Trekkin]

Well Marvel didn't cancel the original Spider-Man comic and just have the close-to-the-movies Ultimate version after the Raimi film was released even though the movies had a bigger audience.

Yet, they’ve now cancelled Ultimates. And combined a lot of its elements with the normal comics, apparently in effort to be closer to the movies. Pity they did it in the most new-reader confounding way possible.

Because Ultimates was no longer financially viable enough to justify its somewhat confusing existence, versus the appeal of trying to net in new readers. Legends apparently ended up in the same boat.

Oh well.

 

[Tuskin38]

We've got a new in-universe dating system for the years during the Empire, AFE (After the Formation of the Empire) and presumably BFE

https://www.starwars.com/news/rebel...bel-files-book-interview?cmp=smc%7C1601804213

 

[Reverend]

^A system that lasted about two decades before everyone (except the FO perhaps?) immediately ditched it and either reset the galactic calendar *again* or reverted back to whatever the Republic was using.

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, Luke was lamenting in the Thrawn trilogy about every new government coming to power completely changing the dating system.

 

[Skywalker]

Anything's better than basing it around the Battle of Yavin. The pre-prequels (ha) era of the EU used to use the Battle of Endor, which makes a lot more sense, though a year later (after the Battle of Jakku) would also make sense in the sequel era.

 

[Tuskin38]

I know Pablo Hidalgo over at the story group doesn’t like the ABY/BBY dating system as the galactic standard. He thought basing it over a pivotal battle didn’t make sense.

The ABY/BBY system was used in a canon reference book, but their was a disclaimer saying it was the (in-universe) author’s choice not the galactic standard.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Using the Battle of Endor did serve one useful purpose: anything that came after was immediately recognizable as EU material. Of course, it didn't help so much with EU material that came before that.

 

[David cgc]

I know Pablo Hidalgo over at the story group doesn’t like the ABY/BBY dating system as the galactic standard. He thought basing it over a pivotal battle didn’t make sense.

Out-of-universe, though, he recognizes the utility of having Star Wars be year zero in the Star Wars universe. IIRC, his personal timeline uses present-day Gregorian dates, indexed to May 25, 1977 as the Battle of Yavin. It's pretty good, especially in the era of the sequel trilogy for figuring out how much time has passed in and out of universe, and it has an intuitive element by associating it with the dates we use every day. Like, I can never remember when, precisely, Bloodline takes place beyond "About five years before TFA. Maybe four? Is eight too much?" but I probably could if I just remembered it was 2005, and TFA was in 2011 (by this dating scheme, not in reality).

 

[Tuskin38]

yeah I saw that, it's pretty cool.

 

[BillJ]

The Thrawn e-book is on sale in the Amazon Kindle store (US) for $1.99.

 

[Tuskin38]

New Excerpt for the new Thrawn novel

https://www.starwars.com/news/thrawn-alliances-exclusive-excerpt

There is also a neat piece of art showing a realistic drawing of Anakin in his TCW series costume.

 

[JD]

The Thrawn e-book is on sale in the Amazon Kindle store (US) for $1.99.

It's been on sale since last week, I got it from Google Play for $1.99 on Wednesday.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

There is also a neat piece of art showing a realistic drawing of Anakin in his TCW series costume.

That's the cover to the San Diego Comic Con exclusive edition of Thrawn: Alliances. Great piece of art; it's now my mobile's wallpaper. And I'm going to see if I can get one of my coworkers who's going to SDCC (I've never gone, as someone has to hold down the fort) if they can pick up the exclusive edition for me.

 

[Campe]

It's been on sale since last week, I got it from Google Play for $1.99 on Wednesday.

Rats! I missed it!

 

[Tuskin38]

Another Thrawn excerpt, plus some art of Padame

https://www.starwars.com/news/thrawn-alliances-exclusive-excerpt-2

 

[JD]

Lucasfilm has announced a new batch of books and comics, several of which are Prequel era stories.
Queen's Shadow by EK Johnston will follow Padme between The Phantom Menace and The Attack of The Clones as she goes from Queen to Senator.
Master and Apprentice by Claudia Grey will be about Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan.
Search Your Feelings will be a kids book by Katie Cook that will use Star Wars characters to teach kids about emotions.
A Solo novel adaptation by Mur Lafferty, and a comic adaptation written by Robbie Thompson.
IDW will be doing another anthology series called Vader's Castle written by Cavan Scott with different artists, and the castle will also be featured in a new seven issue arc of Charles Soule's Darth Vader series called "Vader's Fortress".
There will also be three new anthology comics, the eight issue Age of Republic by Jody Hauser, Age of Rebellion by Greg Pak, and Age of Resistance by Tom Taylor.

 

[Skywalker]

Claudia Grey's writing another book? I was sold even before I saw that it was about Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

IDW will be doing another anthology series called Vader's Castle written by Cavan Scott with different artists.

In full, the title is Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle, and the stories be Goosebumps-style horror stories in the Star Wars universe for an all-ages crowd.

 

[JD]

I was just going by what Io9 said, the full title makes that sound a lot more interesting than what I was originally imagining.

 

[Reverend]

The Padme books seems interesting. Even in the EU the decade between Episodes I & II always felt strangely underutilised and the non-Jedi/force user characters are so rarely given the spotlight.