Book #7 of 2024: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi edited by Tom Hoeler Another batch of 40 stories to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a Star Wars movie, this one centered around the background characters and/or events of Episode VI, Return of the Jedi. Some of these entries …
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Book Review: Star Wars: Brotherhood by Mike Chen
Book #191 of 2022: Star Wars: Brotherhood by Mike Chen A good but not great Star Wars novel, taking place after Anakin and Padme get married at the end of Episode II but before he takes on Ahsoka as his padawan in the Clone Wars movie. The premise / goal here seems twofold: to show …
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Book Review: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
Book #291 of 2020: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the second Star Wars movie, this collection presents 40 new stories revisiting its timeline, in the form of either familiar scenes from the perspective of minor film characters or …
Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Book #15 of 2020: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen True to its title, this post-apocalyptic novel opens after the point when many stories of its genre have finished: with humanity decimated by plague, but its societies generally through the transitional chaos and now beginning to rebuild. It’s also a time of fresh …
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Book Review: Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
Book #65 of 2019: Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen There’s a little bit too much telling over showing in the beginning of this novel about a futuristic time-traveler who creates a new life for himself after getting stranded in 1996. Luckily the plot picks up once the protagonist is belatedly extracted back …
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