Han Solo & the Lost Legacy (Star Wars Series)
by Brian Daley
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Author: Brian DaleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-01
ISBN: 0345912101
Publisher: Ballantine Books (Mm)
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Book Review: On their way to destiny
Summary: 4 Stars
The third and last of Brain Daley's pre-Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (1977 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition) trilogy is perhaps not quite as much sheer fun as the preceding two, but it's still full of action, suspense, techie throwaway, and unforgettable characters. Having left the Corporate Sector Authority, scene of their previous exploits, and returned to Imperial space (or at least the very edge of it--the Tion Hegemony is "so far out amomg the lesser star systems...that the Imperials didn't even bother to exert direct control over it"), Corellian smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee partner Chewbacca fall in with an old friend, Badure, who knew Han in his Academy days and once saved their bacon. Badure has linked up with Hasti, a young woman whose murdered sister, before her death, acquired and squirreled away the log-recorder of the Queen of Ranroon, a legendary lost ship said to have carried the treasure of the long-dead tyrant Xim the Despot. But some rather nasty people know she had it, and Badure needs help--the kind that comes equipped with fast guns and a fast ship. Han is skeptical--he thinks Xim's treasure is so much interstellar gas--but Chewie invokes the Life-Debt they owe, and Solo reluctantly goes along. Their quest leads them to a remote planet where intelligent aquatic plesiosaurs battle each other over ferry rights on a lake and a group that calls itself "the Survivors" offers living sacrifices to an ancient technology that may well be a remnant of Xim's empire. A rather charming caterpillar-like scholar named Skynx and Han's two droids, Bollux and Blue Max, both prove invaluable in resolving the situation, and by the way we learn something of Han's past and Chewie's culture (they "count coup" on defeated enemies, for example). At the end, as Daley said when he autographed my copy of the book, we "will know *exactly* where all this is leading"--to Tatooine and a fateful meeting with a green farmboy and an old hermit. Daley ends his series on a stylish note.
Summary of Han Solo & the Lost Legacy (Star Wars Series)
SEARCH AND DESTROYThe fabled hoard of the mad tyrant Xim was vast--a king's ransom beyond imagining. It was also, as far as Han Solo and Chewbacca were concerned, strictly legendary. But when a little misunderstanding set the deadliest gunman in the galaxy on Han's trail, a secret expedition to almost any place became highly desirable.
Yet within hours of landing on the planet rumored to hold the treasure, Han's beloved spacecraft, the Millennium Falcon, was hijacked, and his party was forced to contend with deadly assassins and an army of killer robots.
This was no way for a pair of honest smugglers to make a living . . .
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