Club Jade
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io9 has our first looks at the cover for Martha Wells’ Empire and Rebellion: Razor’s Edge. No blurb - the provided text is just the stuff we already know about the series, but hey. Cover!
It’s another new look for Star Wars books - kind of a melding of the stark Fate of the Jedi covers with the old-school photo montages. It’s crisper than the montages, but less severe than the stylized Fate covers - will fandom as a whole like it? Who knows!
Razor’s Edge - we just learned the title last week - is due out in hardcover on October 15. The next entries in the series will probably come in 2014 - we know that James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) are working on their Han novel, while Kevin Hearne’s Luke novel is still in the outline stage.
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Star Wars out the week of 4/22 (and also one from last week because I forgot.) Vader’s Little Princess by Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Wallace’s Book of Sith and on Wednesday, Legacy #2.
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by Daniel Lopotez (ZeyJin)
(via skywalkerandjade)
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EUbits: Did George Lucas have Anakin Solo killed? -
Martha Wells’ Princess Leia novel - due out in hardcover October 15 - is titled Empire and Rebellion: Razor’s Edge.
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New Star Wars in comic shops 4/17/13: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin #1, the fourth printing of Star Wars #1. And in collected editions, there’s Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison in hardcover and the trade paperback of Knight Errant: Escape - the series’ final (for now, anyway) storyline.
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Do you think the Solo children should be in the new Star Wars movies? Why or why not?
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I don’t mind if they’re not. I’ve never been particularly fond of the Solo kids, to be honest: No strong baseline characterization and hampered early on by some of the EU’s worst writing, which they never really managed to recover from. (IMO, natch.) Pre EpVII announcement, I wrote a whole post on this in relation to Jaina and the SotJ trilogy.
I won’t mind if they appear in Episode VII, but they are by no means my first choice, and I’d rather see them in the background than as primary protagonists. Plus, yeah, I’d trade any or all of them in for Mara or a female Skywalker.
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“It’s time for Expanded Universe fans to get used to the idea that something like this - by which I mean a post-ROTJ that’s completely different from the one in the books and comics, if not necessarily this one - might actually be what happens in the sequels. Chances are that, yes, ‘Reclamation’ is a big old fake. But the possibility that the setup of the new films will be something completely different is very real.” —Something I just added to the post on the ‘Reclamation’ rumor. This is one of the reasons why I keep highlighting rumors, no matter how outlandish: Everything we know about how Lucasfilm handles canon implies that the movies and, in some cases, television (The Clone Wars yes, Holiday Special not so much) comes first. This is primarily a screen franchise, not a book/comic one, and while it hasn’t really been a factor for most post-ROTJ Expanded Universe fans in the past, it sure as hell will be in the coming years.
Recommended reading: The introduction to Pablo Hidalgo’s Essential Reader’s Companion.
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Is this the second Star Wars animated series? A TFN reader spotted this treatment for Star Wars: Reclamation today on the IMDB message boards. The poster claims to be an ex-Lucasfilm employee, but obviously nothing about this is in any way verifiable.
The Reclamation treatment lays out a Star Wars story set about 15 years after Return of the Jedi. It features mostly all-new characters and Leia Organa and devates considerably from the existing EU: A post-Emperor universe where Han and Leia aren’t even together? Where at least Leia’s ancestry is kept secret? Where there are Jedi who survived the purges but no mention of Luke Skywalker? Although at least one of the other character descriptions is rather curious…
As always, I am deeply skeptical about this whole thing, but it’s certainly food for thought - even if it does turn out to be nothing more than a rejected pitch, an attempt to troll gullible EU fans or just someone’s cleverly-presented fanfic.
