If the story doesn't matter and they're only concerned with getting our money then we should stop buying or reading this books then.
Star Wars Del Ray Panel
- Thread starter Admiral_Young
- Start date
i already did. the only books i've bought since NJO ended were the novelisations of AOTC and ROTS and the RC series and Imp Com. when Traviss quit, so did i. the Wraiths book, i'll buy. maybe.
Way ahead of you. I dropped the Star Wars line early in Legacy of the Force, when it became apparent that the line was creatively bankrupt and poorly edited. I've picked up the odd book since--Allegiance, for Zahn; Mindor, for Stover--and may pick up the Wraith book depending on when in the timeline it takes place (anything pre-Dark Nest would suit me).
Sadly, that doesn't seem to have prevented them from churning out another nine-book crapfest (only this time featuring Christie Golden, whose books I had also stopped buying many years ago after the effluvia that was her output on the post-series Voyager line.)
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Non-edited may be a better descriptor, if the Coruscant Nights series is any indication. When both the writer and editors have absolutely no concept of the prequel timeline or how to accurately subtract 19 from 32, you've got a substantial problem. It's like that moment in school when the teacher asks if there are any questions and you could hear a pin drop a mile away. The editors were the people who didn't understand but were too chicken to admit it. ( And it's Del Rey. )
Del Ray has had some good stand alone Star Wars recently.
Outbound Flight, Death Star and Allegiance were all decent. Shadows of Mindor fizzled disappointingly after the first act, but had real promise. And Millenium Falcon was good right up until the end just kind of happened. I bought all those hardcover primarily for the stories (all set in the OT or "Bantam-Era", or, as with Outbound, directly connected to the "Bantam-Era") and/or the authors, rather than just the Star Wars label.
Since the absolute waste of time the NJO turned into, I started skipping whole swaths of SWs books for the first time ever. Disillusioned with the EU, I sold my entire collection of first edition NJO books on eBay for a nice profit a couple years ago, and followed suit with any Del Ray books that I didn't feel were up to snuff. Otherwise, I've always collected the books as SW memorabilia, good or bad, and always in hardcover if possible.
No thanks, Dark Nest/Legacy of the Force stuff (building off of the NJO debacle). Pass! on the Traviss Mandowank/Jedihate Prequel stuff.
Fate of the Jedi got one try with Omen and lost me. It was embarassing. Daala is Chancellor? Really? Inept corporate whore war criminal Daala? Really? Everyone hates Jedi and Luke is forced out of the Order? OK. Whatever. I guess that follows, after the whole Jacen is a Sith thing that most could have called light years away when he first derailed Anakin (Solo) on Centerpoint Station and fucked up the NJO series. Gray Side of the Force my ass.
Bottom line is FOTJ should have been a paperback series, and a tight trilogy at that, not the bloated hardcover moneygrub it was. Del Ray should be ashamed, but I know they're not. Good to know things are going to start picking up at book seven, though.
Edit: Reading back through the thread, I am reminded of the absolute joke that is Coruscant Nights and the laughable attempt at Force Noir they've got going on there. I'm almost surprised they didn't make that another hardcover set, but then even they may have been hesitant to put out slush pile fanwank in anything other than discreet paperback.
Outbound Flight, Death Star and Allegiance were all decent. Shadows of Mindor fizzled disappointingly after the first act, but had real promise. And Millenium Falcon was good right up until the end just kind of happened. I bought all those hardcover primarily for the stories (all set in the OT or "Bantam-Era", or, as with Outbound, directly connected to the "Bantam-Era") and/or the authors, rather than just the Star Wars label.
Since the absolute waste of time the NJO turned into, I started skipping whole swaths of SWs books for the first time ever. Disillusioned with the EU, I sold my entire collection of first edition NJO books on eBay for a nice profit a couple years ago, and followed suit with any Del Ray books that I didn't feel were up to snuff. Otherwise, I've always collected the books as SW memorabilia, good or bad, and always in hardcover if possible.
No thanks, Dark Nest/Legacy of the Force stuff (building off of the NJO debacle). Pass! on the Traviss Mandowank/Jedihate Prequel stuff.
Fate of the Jedi got one try with Omen and lost me. It was embarassing. Daala is Chancellor? Really? Inept corporate whore war criminal Daala? Really? Everyone hates Jedi and Luke is forced out of the Order? OK. Whatever. I guess that follows, after the whole Jacen is a Sith thing that most could have called light years away when he first derailed Anakin (Solo) on Centerpoint Station and fucked up the NJO series. Gray Side of the Force my ass.
Bottom line is FOTJ should have been a paperback series, and a tight trilogy at that, not the bloated hardcover moneygrub it was. Del Ray should be ashamed, but I know they're not. Good to know things are going to start picking up at book seven, though.
Edit: Reading back through the thread, I am reminded of the absolute joke that is Coruscant Nights and the laughable attempt at Force Noir they've got going on there. I'm almost surprised they didn't make that another hardcover set, but then even they may have been hesitant to put out slush pile fanwank in anything other than discreet paperback.
I wouldn't rubber stamp trilogies as being great either. Dark Nest was a trilogy. Bouty Hunter Wars was a trilogy.
Though, almost everything pre-NJO was a trilogy. Beyond a few standalones like the Hambly Books, The Crystal Star, and The New Rebellion...which weren't that great either.
Though, almost everything pre-NJO was a trilogy. Beyond a few standalones like the Hambly Books, The Crystal Star, and The New Rebellion...which weren't that great either.
Has anyone checked out the Rebel Alliance Blueprints yet? I saw these at the bookstore earlier today and they looked really cool. I remember the Empire Blueprints being cool too but never picked them up, now I kind of regret it.