Ryan's review
Star Wars: Republic Commando - Hard Contact
by Karen Traviss
Ryan's review
Star Wars: Republic Commando - Hard Contact by Karen Traviss
Ryan's review
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When is a Star Wars novel not a Star Wars novel?
That seems to be one of the questions raised by Republic Commando: Hard Contact. On the surface, it very much seems to be one - you have a group of Commando clone troopers trying to rescue a young Jedi from a Mandalorian warrior, and the Clone Wars are very actively happening in the background of the novel's action. Despite these surface similarities, however, the novel bears very little in common with the rest of the Star Wars universe, and what is the "house style" of the EU (Expanded Universe) novels in general. If a few names and titles had have been changed, this could have very easily been an 'original fiction' title, rather than a tie-in novel. For all of the stories that have been written in the Star Wars universe, most of them have focused very heavily on the 'Star' portion of the title, with little if any focus done on the 'Wars' part. Hard Contact changes that by delivering a story of military sci-fi, focus...more
That seems to be one of the questions raised by Republic Commando: Hard Contact. On the surface, it very much seems to be one - you have a group of Commando clone troopers trying to rescue a young Jedi from a Mandalorian warrior, and the Clone Wars are very actively happening in the background of the novel's action. Despite these surface similarities, however, the novel bears very little in common with the rest of the Star Wars universe, and what is the "house style" of the EU (Expanded Universe) novels in general. If a few names and titles had have been changed, this could have very easily been an 'original fiction' title, rather than a tie-in novel. For all of the stories that have been written in the Star Wars universe, most of them have focused very heavily on the 'Star' portion of the title, with little if any focus done on the 'Wars' part. Hard Contact changes that by delivering a story of military sci-fi, focus...more
