![]() “Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Now you can't branch off the oot and read post jedi novels without references to Hayden Skywalker and co and their supposed real backstory of star wars. ![]() These days if you want to escape the bad prequels and clone wars in the EU forget about it as they have now tied all new novels into that crap and stiffled the writers creativity. Incorporating prequel trilogy stuff is a mistake the writers should be able to write their own better prequels and pretend those bad lucash ones don't exist. The stormtroopers are not really bad guys kind of angle is kind of typical of the pathetic modern EU mindset of moral ambiguity. That coming from someone who has enjoyed all of his novels including vision of the future. I mean if the hand of thrawn duology was any hint at to how much suck the rest of his novels would be in comparison to the first 3. It is a decent novel but like all Zahn's books after the trilogy not very good. The one written as a love letter to those nerds that dress up as stormtroopers, the mighty 501st? "Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape Author skyjedi2005 Time 12:17 AM (Edited) Post link How about Zahn's latest Star Wars book, Allegiance? Has anyone read that? Pollard's post has definitely piqued my interest. I too have been interested in reading the later books by Timothy Zahn, but haven't made up my mind to do so yet. There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who do not. Oh, and a word to the wise: the two books about Outbound Flight do incorporate PT elements (especially Outbound Flight), but IMHO there's not too much to worry about (YMMV, of course). (There's a great scene where Mara forces Luke to confront the past 10 years of his life, and makes no bones about where he went wrong and where he was headed if he didn't get his head out of his ass PDQ.) In addition to being a great read, they do a good job of tying together events from previous novels and comic books (specifically the Dark Empire comics), mainly to get Luke "back to his roots" and lead him away from being the All-Powerful Uber-Jedi he was often portrayed as in previous novels. Additionally, if you read them in that order, it's interesting to see, in Luke's time, how much information has been lost to history over the decades due to the Clone Wars and the rise/fall of the Empire.Īs for the Hand of Thrawn two-parter, I definitely recommend them. You can probably read the latter before the former, as the story stands up well enough on its own, but Outbound Flight fills in the details that are only alluded to in Survivor's Quest. If your plan is to read both, go with Outbound Flight first, as Survivor's Quest is essentially its sequel. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them. "Yeah, well, George says a lot of things." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM " rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." - skyjedi2005 so my inlcination would be to read that one first. Survivor's Quest was written/published first. In one, Luke was uncovering the events from the past and in the other C'Baoth and the others were living through the events as they occurred. As I (half)listened to both of them, I noticed that they had nearly the same plot. For those that have read both Survivor's Quest and Outbound Flight, which one should we read first. However, the 3 hour abridements of the Thrawn trilogy are also mostly terrible too, so I've decided I can't judge a book by its 3 hour abridgement.Īnyways. I picked up the 3 hour abridgements and found I didn't like them much. I've never actually read those last 4, since they were published after I stopped reading EU, thought I did really mean to since they were by Tim Zahn. And then maybe Survivor's Quest and Outbound Flight. We've both been enjoying it (as far as I can tell) and I've toyed with the idea of following it up with Spectre of the Past and Visions of the Future. This is her first time and my 3rd or 4th. The wife and I have been reading Zahn's Thrawn trilogy. I realize this thread might go far afield of this question, but if at least someone could please offer an opinion: Zahn's Other SW Books (was: Survivor's Quest vs Outbound Flight) Author xhonzi Date 3, 12:54 PM Author xhonzi Time 3 12:54 PM (Edited) Post link Zahn's Other SW Books (was: Survivor's Quest vs Outbound Flight) - Original Trilogy Sign In
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