Oh wow, I completely forgot about those! I still have them knocking around somewhere too, star wars kids horror, they were quite fun.
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Oh wow, I completely forgot about those! I still have them knocking around somewhere too, star wars kids horror, they were quite fun.
I haven't read anything past the Darth Caedus crisis.
since NJO ended, all i've bothered with was the RC novels and 501st.
There have been plenty of good-to-great Post-ROTJ novels. Such as Xwing series, The Thrawn trilogy, The Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy, and the Corellian trilogy.
Yep.
New Jedi Order was pretty awesome. It was awesome to finally see the Jedi kids come into their own as "heroes" - they were similar ages to the OT heroes during the movies, too. Star By Star was the best of the bunch, wow what a great book.
Betrayal is where I got off the Star Wars train. After a nearly 20 book NJO arc, I was a little burned out anyway.
I kept expecting during NJO that one of the kids would turn to the dark side. They came close a few times. I always said if they did that I would stop reading. They've already covered that ground in the prequels with Anakin, after all.
I'm glad they at least got as far as wrapping up the Vong arc before they pulled that crap.
The Dark Nest (?) books hinted at what was coming. That's pretty much the last Star Wars I read.
My favorite Star Wars books are still the Zhan books - and the X-Wing series.
Look at the full context of the post you responded to; Lord Vader clearly stated "since the New Jedi Order series ended." That means he was referring to books / series that have been published after the NJO conclusion. All of the books you just cited were published back in the Bantam days - i.e., before the NJO.
Loved NJO. Would agree that I haven't necessarily been "excited" about Legacy of the Force or Fate of the Jedi (though there have been aspects in both that I looked forward to more than others), but I have enjoyed both of those series for the most part.
^ Yeah, I loved The New Jedi Order and thought Dark Nest was pretty good. But Legacy of the Force was awful, and I haven't been remotely tempted by Fate of the Jedi.
I'm still picking up some of the standalones and trilogies set earlier, though.
I'm still picking up some of the standalones and trilogies set earlier, though.
This is me exactly.
I might still try some of the 'between films' background novels such as Millennium Falcon, Death Star, Darth Maul Shadow Hunter, Labyrinth of Evil and Dark Lord:The Rise of Darth Vader.
Are these any good - which would you recommend ? Are there any other 'backstory / gap fillers' that I should consider ?
Are these any good - which would you recommend ? Are there any other 'backstory / gap fillers' that I should consider ?
Millennium Falcon isn't a "between films" novel - it has flashbacks to the prequel era, but the bulk of the story is a setup for Fate of the Jedi.
Luceno's two movie prequel books (and Dark Lord to a certain extent, if you consider it a prequel to ANH not a sequel to ROTS) were well-written and nicely expand on the movies, but I'm not sure they do a very good job of justifying their existence. They're so busy building background for the movies that the standalone plot isn't all that interesting.
I thought that both Rogue Planet and Shadow Hunter were fun books. And they may stray a bit from your "gapfiller" definition, but I'd recommend Shatterpoint, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, and Stover's ROTS novelization.
Although I found Legacy of the Force to be heartbreaking, I really enjoyed it.
My feeling is that Legacy of the Force succeeds where the prequel trilogy fails. We're supposed to learn to care about Anakin Skywalker and see his fall to the Dark Side as tragic, but since we all knew him as Darth Vader it felt more inevitable. It wasn't a case of if it would happen but how would it happen. In the case of Legacy of the Force, they took a character I had truly grown to love and sent him down the same tragic path, so I actually felt something.
(And on a side note, The Clone Wars TV show has done much more to make me care about Anakin as a character than the movies did.)
Not saying it's anywhere near as good as NJO was, and I still wish it hadn't happened... but it entertained me.
The last book of Legacy of the Force was spectacularly bad. And Karen Traviss's books were almost completely pointless. That's obviously all my own opinion, of course.
I really, really hope they give up on these awful nine-book round robin megaseries once Fate of the Jedi is done. They're taking stories that could easily be told in three books and stretching them out across nine, and it's not working.
I really, really hope they give up on these awful nine-book round robin megaseries once Fate of the Jedi is done. They're taking stories that could easily be told in three books and stretching them out across nine, and it's not working.
Can't find a source, but I do recall reading an announcement that after Fate of the Jedi was finished, they were putting that format to rest for a while and were going to focus on standalones and trilogies.
Would Star Wars benefit from a Vanguard-style miniseries?
I would say "yes, it would", since that's basically what the X-wing novels were.
Oh, man.... an evil mini Han Solo clone and a duplicate of C3PO with learning difficulties?
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