Anyone familiar with any Star Wars related lit forums?

[bfollowell]

OK, definitely off-topic I know, but, is anyone aware of a similar forum for Star Wars lit?

I realize some fans feel that you can't be a fan of both series but I don't take sides and love both. I'm doing well on catching up with my Trek reading and in another year or so, when I'm more or less caught up, I'd like to similarly catch-up with Star Wars lit. I'd love to find a Star Wars related forum similar to the TrekBBS. I found one set of forums called the Jedi Council forums. Are any of you closet Star Wars fans out there familiar with those or any other decent Star Wars lit forums?

Don't worry, I won't out you or anything. Just post your info and tell me that you heard it from an acquaintance of a cousin of your brother's friend or something like that. It'll be our little secret.

Thanks guys.

- Byron

 

[Smellincoffee]

I know a guy who knows a guy who maybe one time went to a forum looking for Star Wars literature discussion. <shifty eyes>. The link isn't working this afternoon, though. Can't judge the amount of activity, though, because 'the guy' only visited once, looked around, and promptly forgot about it.

My own reading of Star Wars literature has so far been limited to the inter-trilogy or pre-A New Hope books: there are so many books OUT there in the expanded universe (and my home library has so few of them) that I haven't read past the Thrawn trilogy, except for Tatooine Ghost and Millennium Falcon.

 

[DimesDan]

I think theForce.net has something, not 100% sure though as I've hardly been on there lately and my Wars reading is even less than my Trek reading at the moment.

 

[Christopher]

My own reading of Star Wars literature has so far been limited to the inter-trilogy or pre-A New Hope books: there are so many books OUT there in the expanded universe (and my home library has so few of them) that I haven't read past the Thrawn trilogy, except for Tatooine Ghost and Millennium Falcon.

I read several of the early novels from before the "Expanded Universe" era came along -- Splinter of the Mind's Eye and the Brian Daley Han Solo books, mainly. And once I read about the Marvel Star Wars comics in a Starlog issue commemorating the franchise's 10th anniversary, I started collecting back issues until I eventually had them all (I still have most of them, minus some standalones I didn't care for much). I read the first two Zahn/Thrawn novels, but lost interest before the third came out, and I haven't read a Star Wars novel since.

 

[JD]

I'm almost as big of a SW fan as I am a ST fan, and I've been to the Jedi Council Forums a handful of times. I've never actually joined or posted there, but most of what I've seen there seems to be pretty cool. There's also a Lit forum on the official site that I like. Like here some of the authors editors, and other BTS people do post on the OS forums, and I think a few might also post on the Jedi Council Forums.

 

[Stevil2001]

I lurk a bit at TheForce.Net's Jedi Council forums. It's probably your best bit, though sometimes I think the folks there are more interesting in ship lengths than anything else.

 

[ryan123450]

I'm a member and semi-regular poster in the Lit forum at theforce.net. That's your best bet. Hope to see you there soon.

I read as much Star Wars at Star Trek. For the last several years I've been reading the entire Star Wars EU in chronological order. I started in the Old Republic, then the early prequel trilogy stuff, now I'm firmy stuck in the Clone Wars. As more stuff keeps coming out I don't seem to be getting much closer to the inter-trilogy stuff very fast. I't been a very fun experience though.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

I lurk a bit at TheForce.Net's Jedi Council forums. It's probably your best bit, though sometimes I think the folks there are more interesting in ship lengths than anything else.

This.

 

[DigificWriter]

As others have mentioned, the best - and, I believe, only - place I've found online for discussion of SW Lit (and SW in general) is The Force.Net's Jedi Council forums.

 

[William Leisner]

What's Star Wars?

 

[doublegoodprole]

What's Star Wars?

Deep Space Nine.

 

[Trek Survivor]

www.rebelscum.com has an area for discussing comics & books, as well as "the expanded universe" in general. Recommended.

 

[JoeZhang]

I find theforce.net unreadable, the last time I visited that place it seems to have about 200 forums and sub-forums.

 

[Bishop76]

Yeah, I used to visit there and have the same problem as Joe. Also, they're pretty restrictive on what you can post over there too.

 

[ATimson]

I lurk a bit at TheForce.Net's Jedi Council forums. It's probably your best bit, though sometimes I think the folks there are more interesting in ship lengths than anything else.

The Lit forums generally keeps those crazys in their own thread, though.

(Why didn't they just split it into an 8km Super class seen in the games/guides and a 16km Executor class seen in the movies, keeping everybody happy? )

 

[Cybersnark]

I'm almost as big of a SW fan as I am a ST fan

Ditto. They scratch different itches, so to speak. Though I am getting sick and tired of the Jedi and the Sith hogging the spotlight. I miss Rogue Squadron.

Don't know of any good (safe) forums, though, since my SW reading is even further behind than my Trek reading, and I'm spoiler-shy after a few novel-ruining experiences during NJO.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'm almost as big of a SW fan as I am a ST fan

Ditto. They scratch different itches, so to speak. Though I am getting sick and tired of the Jedi and the Sith hogging the spotlight. I miss Rogue Squadron.

Don't know of any good (safe) forums, though, since my SW reading is even further behind than my Trek reading, and I'm spoiler-shy after a few novel-ruining experiences during NJO.

Ever read any of the Republic Commandos novels? I tried, after playing (and enjoying greatly) the game they were inspired by, but I wanted to read about the same characters and so only read the one novel -- Hard Contact.

 

[JD]

I'm almost as big of a SW fan as I am a ST fan

Ditto. They scratch different itches, so to speak. Though I am getting sick and tired of the Jedi and the Sith hogging the spotlight. I miss Rogue Squadron.

Don't know of any good (safe) forums, though, since my SW reading is even further behind than my Trek reading, and I'm spoiler-shy after a few novel-ruining experiences during NJO.

I don't know if you like them too or not, but there is a Wraith Squadron novel coming out in 2012.
ETA: That's part of what I love about the Star Wars, and Star Trek novel lines, they have expanded beyond just the characters from the TV shows/movies.

 

[Christopher]

ETA: That's part of what I love about the Star Wars, and Star Trek novel lines, they have expanded beyond just the characters from the TV shows/movies.

There are other tie-ins that have done that. Doctor Who had the Bernice Summerfield novels (spinning off a book-original companion) and various audio spinoffs or side stories, not to mention comic-strip stories exploring a variety of side characters such as Abslom Daak, Dalek-Killer. Babylon 5's Del Rey tie-ins did a lot to expand the universe beyond the core setting and format with things like the Psi Corps Trilogy and the Technomage Trilogy.

And there have been some tie-in lines that have explored side characters and expanded the universe partly because they were limited in their ability to do anything with the main cast. A lot of the V tie-in novels introduced original characters resisting the Visitors in various parts of the world (well, mainly the US), most notably the New York resistance in the Howard Weinstein novels (and admittedly not many of the others were any good). And the black-and-white comic books that tied into Alien Nation all featured original characters and situations in the universe of the show. (I'm not sure they even had the rights to use any of the TV/film characters, since they avoided them so completely. But that doesn't make a lot of sense -- how could they have the rights to everything about the series premise/format except the characters?)

 

[RonG]

Every couple of months, I take a look at theforce.net forums, but usually don't stay too often..

For a few years, I had read quite a few SW novels, starting with the classic (IMO) Thrawn trilogy, and going from there onwards. Most of the books were mediocre for my taste (I tend to favor Sci-fi over fantasy), but Zahn's duology concluding the "Bantam era" was quite good.

From the New Jedi Order, I sampled very few books and was never hooked enough to stay around..