If you dug "Tales from Jabba's Palace", give the other similar anthologies a try. There is a "Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina", "Tales from the Bounty Hunters", "Tales from the Empire" and "Tales from the New Republic". I prefer the latter two (Empire and New Republic), but that's probably because I like reading about the completely original fringe characters in the Star Wars universe.
Shag On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: > Just finished Star Wars: Tales From Jabba's Palace, as editted by Kevin J. > Anderson. All in all I liked this book because the majority of the short > stories were well-written. A few of them were subpar, but not enough to > bring the whole book down. The fact that the stars of the stories are the > wild and weird aliens from my favorite Star Wars movies helps in this > regard. > > Some standouts include Anderson's tale of the Rancor Keeper; Deborah > Wheeler writes about Ree Yees; Kenneth C. Flint has a hard boiled tale > starring Ephant Mon; and Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens score with a tale > about EV-9D9. The story of the Max Rebo Band also had me grinning pretty > much the entire way. > > An interesting aspect is that most of the stories take place at the same > time, so they all have some sort of connective tissue to other stories. So > when we see a character run into another in one story, that meeting will at > least be mentioned in the other character's story. This can get a little > redundant but the different POVs help. > > Main complaint is the inclusion of a story with Dannik Jeriko, who as far > as I can remember doesn't actually appear in Jabba's Palace but instead is > from the Cantina in Mos Eisley. Similarly, Timothy Zahn writes a story > with Mara Jade (big shock), but she is never seen on screen in Jabba's > Palace. Why couldn't we have gotten a story about Yak Face or one of the > Nikto instead of these two? > > Overall I enjoyed the book. But it's a book about Jabba's Palace so this > is not really a surprise. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theuniquegeek/-/i573b5ioXyUJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
