Heir to the Empire Anniversary Reprint

Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1846

Adding to froffli-style haircuts, etheric rudders, and slicers: hot chocolate and the Manari mountains.
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Padawan Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 4

I've seen people comment (not here necessarily, I think it was on twitter) that if you're not a fan of Zahn's recent Star Wars work (by which I assume means Outbound Flight and on) that you won't like Crisis of Faith. I've got to say, I disagree. This is the only work he's done in years that really centers around Thrawn and his story, which really brings back feelings of reading Thrawn in action in the first place.
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I liked the new short story. The bug people were surprisingly interesting. They felt better than the Killiks. And the way it played out like complicated chess game was pretty cool. Though I have to wonder at the ending if there's still room for Nuso Esva.
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EUC Staff Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 1137 Location: Kansas

I'm still waiting for the library on this one, but at least I'm first in line! Smile

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Haha, same thing went through my mind. As soon as I realized the character that was speaking was surrounded by bugs I groaned and thought "oh no, not the Killiks again." One thing that helped was these bugs didn't have a blurry hive mind. Plus I liked the names Zahn was using for them. It added to their alienness.
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Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1846

So I'm re-reading Heir to the Empire now and the tone is so different than Fate of the Jedi or Legacy of the Force, and I can't quite put my finger on why, but I suspect it's many different factors. One of which, I think, is that Zahn wrote Heir to the Empire knowing that his audience saw the Star Wars films, so he doesn't hold the audience's hand and explain everything. The current books explain everything. In Fate of the Jedi, I think at least two separate books explained who Darth Caedus was.

Heir to the Empire also feels like a Star Wars movie. I don't think the more recent books we've gotten feel like movies.
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"Trust not the words of a poet, as he is born to seduce. Yet for poetry to seize the heart, it must ring with the chimes of truth.”

“The world is understood through metaphors. Language is a metaphor-system. Mathematics is a metaphor-system. All real-world schools of magic and religion revolve around the understanding of vast metaphor-systems, symbols as they relate to concepts."

"See, the thing is, everything everyone tells you is a lie. The truth is always bigger than the words we use to describe it."

Padawan Joined: 29 Sep 2011 Posts: 62

Still no word on whether they are doing the rest of the series or not. Plus editor Betsy Mitchell is retiring in December. She wrote some of the annotations, as well as the afterword. Wonder if they do more if they'll still have her help contribute?
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