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Title: Tales from the Empire : Stories from Star Wars Adventure Journal by Peter Schweighofer ISBN: 0-553-57876-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 November, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (25 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: New twists and turns in the galaxy far, far away.
Comment: Over 20 years ago, George Lucas wrote an epic story that has touched two generations of movie patrons; setting off a monumental wave of action figures, clothes, memorabilia, and books, including "Tales from the Empire", a compilation of stories set against the backdrop of Star Wars. These new tales focus on the smaller heroes, villains, and people caught in the middle than the epic characters George Lucas created. While Darth Vadar is the villain, and Luke Skywalker the white knight, this book focuses in on the greys that seperate the extremes. In this book we learn about families and loved ones torn assunder by this civil war. It is a more human approach to this overwhelming galaxy, that is refreshing. This is not to take away from the heroes that I once pretended to be in my backyard. These stories flesh out a world that is beloved by many, and is not to be missed by the fans that have made Star Wars a household name.
Rating: 4
Summary: Stories before the final Rebellion victory
Comment: In this book are presented stories of the time shortly before the fall of the Empire. The best of the lot are those by Zahn and Stackpole, fleshing out the past of some of the characters they created. We learn how Mara Jade and Talon Karrde hooked up, how Corran Horn joined the Rebellion, and how Thrawn and Corran cooperated before the Emperor's death. While the other stories are generally good, some are slow. Note that all these stories originally appeared in the Star Wars Adventure Journal, so you might have read some or all of them in the past.
Rating: 4
Summary: The adventures continue in this fine Star Wars anthology....
Comment: Even though George Lucas' six-film Star Wars saga focuses intensely on a relatively small group of characters (the Skywalker family and the various Jedi and Sith Lords that tied their personal destiny to that of the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire), its setting ("a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....") was, and still is, a very huge canvas onto which many other stories can be easily included. Many fans, either by playing with their action figures as children or by writing fan fiction, created their own personal additions to the Star Wars universe and, at least in their own imagination, took part in the noble struggle between good and evil that's one of the building blocks of this modern day mythology.
Eventually, as Peter Schweighofer, editor of Tales From the Empire, writes in his introduction to this 1997 anthology of short stories, the action figures were put away and the fan fiction stories stashed away in drawers or file cabinets, but the fans' appetite for new Star Wars stories -- on film and on the printed page -- never really went away. And with the 1991 publication of Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire, the fans received a cornucopia of "further adventures" featuring not only the beloved heroes from the movies but a whole new cast of allies and adversaries.
Tales From the Empire is a collection of nine short stories that first appeared in West End Games' Star Wars Adventure Journal, plus a short novel (Side Trip) co-written by two of the best writers of Star Wars fiction, Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole. Most of these brief excursions into Lucas' galaxy are set during the time of the Galactic Civil War and/or the first few years of the post-Endor New Republic era, with entirely original characters -- Darth Vader makes a cameo in the Zahn/Stackpole novel and events that took place in the films (the Death Star's destruction at Yavin) are mentioned in passing -- that inhabit the millions of star systems in the strife-torn vastness of space.
Although the stories by Kathy Tyers (The Truce at Bakura), Stackpole (the X-Wing series creator), and Zahn are as well-written as their published Star Wars novels, credit must also be given to lesser known writers as Tony Russo, Laurie Burns, and Angela Phillips, whose tale of a young hacker ("slicer" in Star Wars terminology) who joins the Rebellion in the face of her parents' opposition ("Slaying Dragons") is among the best pieces of short fiction I have read in a while.
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Title: Tales from the New Republic by PETER SCHWEIGHOFER, CRAIG CAREY ISBN: 0553578820 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tales from Jabba's Palace : Star Wars by Kevin Anderson ISBN: 0553568159 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tales of the Bounty Hunters : Star Wars by Kevin Anderson ISBN: 0553568167 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Star Wars: Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina by Kevin Anderson ISBN: 0553564684 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hard Merchandise : Star Wars: Book 3 of The Bounty Hunter Wars by K.W. Jeter ISBN: 055357891X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 06 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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