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annathecrow

Hi!

This week, the topic is "Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear", a novel by Alexander Freed that focuses on the first year of the Empire as experienced by Bail Organa, Mon Mothma and Saw Gerrera.

This is a very fresh book: it was released this February. Have any of you read it, or plan to?

Alexander Freed is an established Star Wars writer with several well-received SW novels to his name - would that recommend or detract from this book for you?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner.

This week's topic is the Darth Bane trilogy, written by Drew Karpyshyn and published 2006-2009.

Has anyone read this one? What are your thoughts?

My only impressions from the Wookieepedia articles are "what happened to that middle cover?" and "hm, Karpyshyn, isn't that the guy who every Revan fan hates?" :D

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, our topic is The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem - an adaptation of Rogue One and the Original Trilogy in the style of Odyssey and Beowulf.

...yes, really.

Have you heard of it? Have you read it? What do you think about it, whether you did or not? Come and discuss!

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

Something of a continuation from last week, the topic for this week is The Approaching Storm, a Prequel-era novel by Alan Dean Foster, the author of the famous Episode IV novelization. It's meant to serve as a prelude to Episode II - so, not quite a novelization, but very very close to it.

Have you read this book? What did you think? Would you recommend it?

Alternately: go look at the book's cover. Would you pick it up in a shop? What would you think if you saw it?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week it's time for non-movie, canon media, and I'm going to dip into the archive and bring up a topic from around this time a few years ago: "movie novelizations".

As far as I know, every SW movie got a book written from it - some even multiple, if we count comic adaptations and books for younger readers. Have you ever read any? What do you think about novelizations as a concept - do you enjoy them, find them a valuable source of canon, or would you rather they didn't exist at all?

And how much canon do you actually consider them? I'm not quite sure how much does Disney consider them canon (but admittedly I didn't search too hard).

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

The topic this week is Legacy of the Force, a nine-book Legends series set around 40 ABY and starring the next generation of Skywalkers and Solos.

Has anyone read this one? What are your thoughts?

This is one of the Legends series that is now very thoroughly retconned. Does that change how you see the series, whether you've read it or not?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week's topic is the Empire and Rebellion duology, containing the books Razor's Edge and Honor Among Thieves. This series had an interesting fate: originally planned as a trilogy, it fell under Disney's continuity axe and its two first books found themselves stranded in the Legends continuity while its last book, Heir to the Jedi, was published after and adopted into the current canon.

Have you read these books? (Have you known they existed?)

Or maybe something more abstract: if you were to pick one part of any SW series (book, comic, movie, show) to stand on its own, which series and which part would it be?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week's topic is the novel "Shadows of the Empire" - set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, it invents a brand new antagonist for both our heroes and Darth Vader in the person of Prince Xizor.

What do you think? Have you read it? Would you read it? Have you ever heard of the lizard-y prince?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week's topic is Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, a novel whose protagonist is Iskat Akaris, a Jedi-turned-Inquisitor.

This is a fairly new book, released in July 2023. Have any of you read it? Did you like it? Would you recommend it, and to whom?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

The topic for the week is Star Wars: The Lost Tribe of the Sith an e-book series about a bunch of Sith having a bad time.

...at least that's what I can gather from the Wookieepedia summaries - if someone knows better please correct me. Or not, I might be better off not trying to know everything about the Legends canon (there is so much of it oh my god)

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week I’m bringing you obscure Legends content again, this time the Coruscant Nights trilogy - the stories of a Jedi-turned-detective Jax Pavan, only months after the fall of the Republic.

Have you read any of these books? What did you think?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week’s topic is Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, a Legends novel published by Del Rey in 2004 in which the tiny green Jedi Master becomes a protagonist.

Has anyone read this one? It clearly belongs beside Shatterpoint, but it doesn’t make it into the same rec lists. Then again, majority can be wrong sometimes…

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

For this week, I looked at Wookieepedia’s Timeline of Legends Media and found the in-universe chronologically latest novel: Crucible, set in 45 ABY. It came out in 2014, making it also one of the last published Expanded Universe novels.

Has anyone here read it, and do you have something to say about it? If not, I have also found an article about last EU stories published, which might be of interest.

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This is current-canon week, so lets come back to High Republic, the multimedia project set roughly two centuries before the Prequels. We’ve already talked about it in 2021, but I figure that after nearly two years there might be a new thing or three to talk about.

Bonus question, since comics tend to be the less known topic on this comm: if you could choose any era of the Galaxy Far Far Away to set the next TV show or movie in, what would it be, and why? Or for the fic writers among us, if you had to write a story in an era you’ve never written about before, which one would you pick?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week’s topic is the Young Adult novel Rebel Rising, which tells the story of Jyn Erso, before the events of the Rogue One movie. Have you read it? Would you recommend it? If yes, who would you recommend it to? “You will like this book if you like [X and Y], but dislike it if you like [Z]”…

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week is for Legends content, and our topic is the MedStar duology, released in 2004, which focuses on a Republic Mobile Surgical Unit and stars (among other characters) Padawan Bariss Offee.

Has anyone here read these books? I haven’t, but I am mildly fascinated by them, mostly because of the theme. Is this... M.A.S.H. in space? From the description it sounds more like one of those medical drama shows that were popular during that time. Also, it seems these books got “Jossed” by TCW even before the Disneypocalypse… what do you think?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

The topic for this week is the “Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy”, consisting of three books: Chaos Rising, Greater Good, and Lesser Evil, all written by Timothy Zahn. The protagonist is the fan-favorite Mitth’raw’nuruodo aka Thrawn, one of the few lucky characters who got imported into the new canon from the EU.

Have you read the series? Is it on your TBR list? Or is it a “hard pass”?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, the topic is “Dark Disciple”, the unused TCW script turned novel about Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Voss.

You know the drill by now: have you read it? Did you like it? Any other thoughts?

As an alternative discussion topic (I’m aware I’m dragging out increasingly obscure stories as times go on): characters that appear across different stories, and how they (don’t) change. Do you have any feelings about that? R2 is in everything (oh the implications), the Sequels are sure a thing (and so is the entire post-OT EU, of course), and I’ve just learned there’s an EU book where Anakin Skywalker teams up with Nejaa Halcyon and excuse me, that’s a trip.

(This is of course inspired by Quinlan Vos, AKA the SW patron saint of getting a complete personality transplant via adaptation.)

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, the topic is the book “Brotherhood“ by Mike Chen. Its protagonists are Anakin and Obi-Wan just after the start of the Clone Wars and interestingly, by word-of-creator it is in continuity with the otherwise officially non-canonical EU novel Labyrinth of Evil.

Has anyone read it? What are your thoughts?

Otherwise, something a bit meta: most of us have EU stories we hope will make it into the new continuity or regret loosing. But, do you have stories you’re glad to be rid of?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

Today’s topic is the novel “Labyrinth of Evil” by James Luceno, one of the two Revenge of the Sith tie-in novels that focus on Anakin Skywalker’s transformation into Darth Vader.

Have you read it? What did you think? Would you recommend it?

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Page Summary

annathecrow - Chat corner 188: Mask of Fear
annathecrow - Chat corner 181: Darth Bane
annathecrow - Chat corner 176: An Epic Poem
annathecrow - Chat corner 173: Approaching Storm
annathecrow - Chat corner 172: Movie novelizations
annathecrow - Chat corner 169: Legacy of the Force
annathecrow - Chat corner 165: Empire and Rebellion
annathecrow - Chat corner 149: Shadows of the Empire
annathecrow - Chat corner 148: Rise of the Red Blade
annathecrow - Chat corner 141: Lost Tribe of the Sith
annathecrow - Chat corner 132: Coruscant Nights
annathecrow - Chat corner 128: Dark Rendezvous
annathecrow - Chat corner 124: Crucible
annathecrow - Chat corner 123: High Republic
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annathecrow - Chat corner 112: MedStar
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annathecrow - chat corner 107: Dark Disciple
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