Star Wars: Heist

by Timothy Zahn

Genres: Star Wars

Unknown Binding

About the author

Timothy Zahn attended Michigan State University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1973. He then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and achieved an M.S. degree in physics in 1975. While he was pursuing a doctorate in physics, his adviser became ill and died. Zahn never completed the doctorate. In 1975 he had begun writing science fiction as a hobby, and he became a professional writer. He and his wife Anna live in Bandon, Oregon. They have a son, Corwin Zahn.

Reviews

[B.A.G. Studios · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two Star Wars short stories back to back that take place on a cruise liner. Different ships, not supposed to be the same ship or anything, but both are supposedly taking place at the same time directly post-IV. For whatever it’s worth, there are no references to Alderaan, or the Death Star, none of that. I might just decide this is set earlier for the sake of it, because it comes across so strange for two cruise ship stories so near, and on top of that we have twin sisters, right after “Hammertong,” by the same author. This is A, not on the same ship, and B, not the same identical twin sister conwomen. It’s just weird and distracting.
Evidently this ties into the book Scoundrels, which I’ve chosen to skip for now. I may come back to it when I read through the Han Solo books, which I also skipped this time through. We’ll see. So judging only off of this one story, I don’t get a sense of Star Wars. I don’t feel like it’s that galaxy we all know and love, it’s not bad, it’s Timothy Zahn so it’s well-written… But like “Hammer” and even “Eruption”, I just don’t get what it adds to the Star Wars universe.
But it probably adds a decent bit to that book for which it serves as an advertisement.