Tales from Jabba's Palace (Star Wars.)
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Editor: Kevin J. AndersonIllustrator: Stephen Youll
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-12-01
ISBN: 0553568159
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Spectra
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Book Review: Jabba's Posse
Summary: 3 Stars
Tales from Jabba's Palace is a collection of 19 stories by a number of different authors with the common ground being the presence of the main characters in Jabba's palace at the time of the rescue of Han Solo from his carbonite slab. As is true with the other Tales collections in the Extended Universe, the concept is sound. Take a particular place at a particular point in time and interweave stories of the characters involved, no matter how insignificant. Previously we have been through Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina and Tales of the Bounty Hunters, and we still have a couple more books to go.
The authors developing these tales for Jabba's characters had mixed results. The first tale is "A Boy and His Monster: The Rancor Keeper's Tale" by Kevin Anderson, and it gets the book off to a good start, particularly for those of us in the Rancors Love to Read program. A good rancor story is hard to beat. The book also finishes well with "Skin Deep: The Fat Dancer's Tale" by A. C. Crispin. The tales in between deal with such characters as Salacious Crumb, Ephant Mon, Ree-Yees, Bib Fortuna, EV-9D9, and Boba Fett. Most of the stories are interesting, and I admire the editing that enables the stories to fit together. It is somewhat like putting together a literary Jabba's palace jigsaw puzzle.
Of course, all of the stories can't be good. For example, as was true in Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, we have another tale about Dannik Jerriko and his addiction to soup - not vegetable or chicken noodle, but the fluid he withdraws from unwilling victims. The story from Mos Eisley was bad. This one ("Out of the Closet: The Assassin's Tale") is worse. It can be skimmed or just skipped entirely. Another bad one is "And Then There Were Some: The Gamorrean Guard's Tale". Apparently, one of the guards is so stupid that he carries two dead bodies around with him for days or weeks until he can decide what to do with them. Entirely preposterous.
Tales from Jabba's Palace is worth reading, but some judicious tale selection can be worthwhile.
Summary of Tales from Jabba's Palace (Star Wars.)
A collection of short stories takes place in the dog-eat-dog palace of the infamous Jabba the Hutt and includes the works of such authors as Kevin J. Anderson, A. C. Crispin, Barbara Hambly, Jennifer Roberson, and Timothy Zahn.One of the more prolific--and proficient--Star Wars authors, Kevin J. Anderson, edits and contributes to this anthology of ... well, tales from Jabba's palace. Each of the 19 short tales focuses on a different personality, from the rancor keeper to Salacious Crumb, putting faces and facts on the internecine intrigue swirling around everyone's favorite Huttese crime lord. (As it turns out, you can find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley.) Find out how Bib Fortuna hoped to overthrow Jabba, or hear the philosophical ramblings of a not-so-bright teenage skiff guard. Or, perhaps best, learn how Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon. Style, mood, and quality vary by author, but these Tales are mostly funny and mostly well done, including those by Anderson, Star Trek author A.C. Crispin, Nebula-winner George Alec Effinger, and Hugo-winner Timothy Zahn. --Paul Hughes
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