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Star Wars Aftermath excerpt released...and Rae Sloane is back!
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Here's my big question about Aftermath: should we read it the day it releases, or wait until after seeing The Force Awakens? I'm tempted to let Ep VII tell me what's been going on in the 30 years after ROTJ, then go back and read Wendig's novel. Anyone else thanking about this?
I'm definitely reading Aftermath when it comes out to build the excitement and story towards the movie. Plus, it will be hard to avoid spoilers because so many fans will be discussing the book. However, it would be interesting to hear your review if you read it after the movie. A different perspective.
Yeah, I'm reading it ASAP. I'm on the internet too much to avoid spoilers. I find it cool that Wendig is the first author that gets a trilogy to write. Aftermath must've really hit home for Lucasfilm.
Same here. Reading when it comes out. This is my most looked forward to book of Star Wars EU ever.
I'll be reading it the day it is released. Based on the plot synopsis, it seems very "safe" in terms of content. In fact I think it may be too much so. It doesn't seem like there will be many major implications from this book. It certainly is diminished from the scope of the Thrawn Trilogy.I consider this the first real book in the New Canon era (Tarkin, et al seem like carry-overs from the previous era). So I am very interested to see how Lucasfilm approaches this. Will this be a marginal story with characters confined to the novels with some name-dropping lip service in the films? I hope not.
We know Dennis Lawson (Wedge) rejected a role in TFA, so they can kill him off in this trilogy without affecting the cinematic narrative...Wedge, I mean...not Dennis....because y'know that would be murder.
One more month! Can't wait.
The release of the excerpt from Aftermath finally made me snap back into reality, because I'm two novels behind. I'm only halfway through Lords of the Sith and haven't even started Dark Disciple yet. These will definitely be finished before Aftermath releases.
Well Aftermath has been out for almost three hours for you East Coasters. Who has finished it?;)
Just finished chapter two. Will be seeing Chuck Wendig tonight at DragonCon.
My library ordered it and I am first on the wait list! But, man, have you seen the reviews on Amazon? People are really not liking it. I may read some of the YA novels first...while I wait.
There's a difference between not liking the book and people continuing to be bitter about the EU.
There's a difference between not liking the book and people continuing to be bitter about the EU.
I am in the middle of the book now. It's different than the older Eu books. I am liking the freshness of this for me it's 1992 again the Star Wars saga continues.
I am about halfway through, and the book seems to be struggling with continuity. It can't seem to settle itself into a story. There are too many characters to follow and what is up with the random interludes? I hope things start coming together soon.
The random interludes I think are to set the tone of the Galaxy. The story to me so far is the mother trying to redeem herself. What do you think ?
I was at Chuck Wendig's panel at DragonCon. He said that the publisher wanted the book to focus on the new developments throughout the galaxy. However, he wanted it to be a story focused on certain characters to feel more like Star Wars. The Interludes are there to fulfill the galaxy building that the publisher originally intended.
Bruce that's a good insight. If your older Star Wars fan we assume that with destruction of the Death Star and the Sith. That the galaxy lived happily ever after which is not the case. The old EU explained the struggle of the Alliance becoming the New Republic in this new time line I expect the development to be similar.
Thanks for the info Bruce. Now that I know that, I'll skip the interludes and read them when I'm done. For me, they interfere with the flow of the story. So far, still not a huge fan of this book. I guess maybe my expectation way too high!
I have not read the book yet (still waiting for the library) but I was wondering if anyone has read this novel and the first issue of the new Marvel comic book series Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Shattered Empire #1 to see how they compare. They both deal with the immediate aftermath of ROTJ. Shattered Empire's first several pages are even dedicated to alternate views of the Battle of Endor.
Bruce wrote: "I was at Chuck Wendig's panel at DragonCon. He said that the publisher wanted the book to focus on the new developments throughout the galaxy. However, he wanted it to be a story focused on certain..."Wendig could have made them interconnected short stories.
Kerry, I think I would have preferred that.
Today, Entertainment Weekly posted an excerpt from the upcoming novel Star Wars Aftermath which will be the first novel in a trilogy following RotJ. After reading it, I was excited to find out that Rae Sloane will appear in the novel as a hardened Imperial admiral. To me, she comes off as a mixture of Gilad Pellaeon and Grand Admiral Thrawn from the Thrawn Trilogy and as those two are among my favorite Star Wars characters, I'm super excited. Wedge Antilles also appears but I noticed he doesn't come off as the experience leader he is in the X-Wing series, but then again this book will take place right after the destruction of the second Death Star so I guess this makes sense.
Speaking of the Thrawn Trilogy, I noticed a number of callbacks to the Thrawn Trilogy in the excerpt namely when Wedge tries to escape from the tractor beam with torpedoes. Luke pulled pretty the exact same stunt in the Thrawn Trilogy. There's also the scene when Sloane is commenting on the inexperience of her Stormtroopers and how the best officers were sent to Vader's flagship, the Executor, exactly what Pellaeon said in the first chapter of Heir to the Empire. Considering that this new trilogy will be the first canon series to take place after RotJ just as the Thrawn Trilogy was the first series written after RotJ, I find this to be appropriate, but Chuck Wendig will have some pretty big shoes to fill and I really hope he delivers.