https://www.starwars.com/news/new-books-revealed im looking forward to these in 2022.
Star Wars Books Thread
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I'll definitely pick up the Luke/Lando one
Me too.
Yeah, it sounds like that one will finally be filling in more of the sequels' backstory. I've been hoping for a book like this since Rise came out, so hopefully this will answer a few of the left over questions. The others sound good too, but that is definitely the most interesting.
At least we are getting a story between AOTC and TCW.
The Lando/Luke book sounds interesting. It at least feels like a book that is telling a story that is worth telling, and not just a filler story done to sell a book. Plus, its about some Sequel Trilogy related backstory, which is cool and something I hope they do more of.
Also, NJO was mostly terrible.
I only read Vector Prime back when it came out, and that's about where I stopped paying attention to the novels altogether for a good 10 years, but I eventually got caught up (mostly because I ran out of audiobooks to listen to on public transport, and it was that or run through all the Discworld books a 4th time.) On balance, I don't think I was missing anything special.
Honestly though, the Bantam books weren't much better when taken as a whole. The only actually good material there is the Zahn and Stackpole entries. With few exceptions, most everything else ranged from tedious mediocrity to hackneyed nonsense. By comparison the average level of quality with the Disney books has been both way more consistent, and much higher overall.
I think the key difference has been that the modern publishing side of things has been much more in tune with Star Wars' "Space Fantasy" aspect, where in the past it was treated far too much like low-level pulp sci-fi.
I only read Vector Prime back when it came out, and that's about where I stopped paying attention to the novels altogether for a good 10 years, but I eventually got caught up (mostly because I ran out of audiobooks to listen to on public transport, and it was that or run through all the Discworld books a 4th time.) On balance, I don't think I was missing anything special.
Honestly though, the Bantam books weren't much better when taken as a whole. The only actually good material there is the Zahn and Stackpole entries. With few exceptions, most everything else ranged from tedious mediocrity to hackneyed nonsense. By comparison the average level of quality with the Disney books has been both way more consistent, and much higher overall.
I think the key difference has been that the modern publishing side of things has been much more in tune with Star Wars' "Space Fantasy" aspect, where in the past it was treated far too much like low-level pulp sci-fi.
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If it’s Vector Prime that’s the first one so you can start there.
Or better yet: don't?If it’s Vector Prime that’s the first one so you can start there.
Vector Prime is good. Has that mystery side to it. Good investigation story with Luke and Mara.Or better yet: don't?
It still sits on my shelf unread.Or better yet: don't?
Good man!
I read all of NJO, and while it went on too long, it was overall pretty good, at least I thought so. The only real exception to that was the book Traitor, easily the most rancid piece of shit ever published under the Star Wars banner and the book that made Jacen Solo the single worst character in the entire franchise. His entire character arc was horrible, and this, for me, made him irredeemable. Then he later killed my favorite SW character (Mara Jade) because the writers were losing their minds in the last few years of the EU (and I say that as someone who loves the old EU and still considers it the best version of the SW Universe), but it all goes back to Traitor.
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