false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900438m/77787.jpg 77787 10 Timothy Zahn is the master of the Star Wars novel. His trilogy (<I>Heir to the Empire</I>, <I>Dark Force Rising</I>, and <I>The Last Command</I>) did almost as much as the movie trilogy's re-release to create new interest in Luke, Leia, and Han Solo. <I>Specter of the Past</I> is the first of a new series, The Hand of Thrawn. Princess Leia is trying desperately to hold the loose coalition of interests known as the New Republic together long enough to see the evil Empire finally vanquished. But in a stunning setback, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker discover that the pirate ships raiding New Republic transports are staffed with clones under the command of someone who claims to be Grand Admiral Thrawn, the Empire's most powerful warlord, believed dead for 10 years. Thrawn's plan for destroying the fragile New Republic seems well on the way to completion--unless Han, Leia, and Luke can stop it. 1134058 1 9 1997 Specter of the Past (Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn, #1) total:1367|5:357|4:514|3:412|2:76|1:8| 1367 5237 1752 29 3 1 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 17:34:32 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 05:14:53 -0800 2008 Specter is less of a stand alone than his first three novels. This volume serves as a four hundred page introduction to the companion Vision of the Future.

Excellent cover art by Drew ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 10:43:31 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 17:56:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 15:12:50 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 19:01:23 -0800 2008 Specter of the Past is the first book in the two-book Hand of Thrawn series, and it is every bit as action-packed as the three previous Timothy Zahn Star Wars books I have read. The novel begins with Admiral Pellaeon trying to talk the Imperial forces into surrendering to the New Republic, but not ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Sep 21 01:10:38 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 03:02:43 -0700 2009
For some reason I've always felt like books about Star Wars are like dancing about architecture, to paraphrase Zappa. Half the fun of the movies are all the crazy shit that goes on in the background, and there's some of t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 09 17:31:19 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 17:31:19 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 10 04:08:13 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 04:14:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 04 18:22:43 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:01:13 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Feb 28 21:05:57 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 21:07:10 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu May 07 09:34:01 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 09:34:54 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Mar 05 14:26:51 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 14:27:12 -0800 2009 1 4 0 false false Sat Jan 10 16:27:05 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 25 17:17:28 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 16:27:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 26 15:11:58 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 15:12:23 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Feb 27 15:19:39 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 27 09:17:58 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 27 15:19:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 03:58:22 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 09:05:12 -0700 2009 I give the book 4 stars rather than 3 because some of the pilots from the X-Wing-Series appear and that's a bonus for me.]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 24 08:34:52 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 05 15:54:50 -0800 2008 1
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Would I read it again? Probably not.]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 05 20:23:08 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 20:24:12 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Apr 05 00:28:17 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 05 00:29:08 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Nov 15 22:21:36 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 22:22:45 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 08:21:41 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 20:02:02 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=77787