Tales from the New Republic (Star Wars (Random House Paperback))
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Editor: Peter SchweighoferEditor: Craig Carey
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-12
ISBN: 0553578820
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Spectra
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Book Review: Interesting Tales
Summary: 4 Stars
Tales from the New Republic contains eleven stories with Timothy Zahn and Michael Stackpole doing the best work and Patricia Jackson bringing up the rear with two tales that just don't amount to much. Fortunately, the efforts from Mr. Zahn and Mr. Stackpole are excellent and more than offset the weaker efforts by some of the other authors. This book is one of several Star Wars books that rely on the same structure, i.e., pick an area in the Star Wars universe at about the same point in time and write stories about a number of different characters. Some of the characters are known to us going in, but most are not. Some of the stories are successful, and some are not.
"Interlude at Darkknell" by Timothy Zahn and Michael Stackpole is an excellent four-part tale that gets the book off to a good start. Senator Garm Bel Iblis joins forces with Corsec inspector Hal Horn in a duel against the Empire's most dangerous agent in an effort to obtain the plans for the Death Star. It is a gripping story that ties in well with the background information we already have about the Death Star. Mr. Zahn follows this story with "Jade Solitaire" in which we follow Mara Jade through one of her adventures.
Most of the stories from the other authors are fun to read and are decently written. If you decide to skip Patricia Jackson's two stories, you won't miss much. Her storylines are just completely uninteresting, and her style is pretentious and wordy.
This is the last collection of short stories in a chronological reading of the Expanded Universe that we have undertaken. Now we will move on to longer tales with more familiar characters.
Summary of Tales from the New Republic (Star Wars (Random House Paperback))
Yet another Star Wars Tales collection, Tales from the New Republic rescues a sheaf of stories that never saw publication in West End's now-kaput Official Star Wars Adventure Journal, with the addition of a tag-team novella by Star Wars fiction demigods Timothy Zahn (Hugo-winning author of Specter of the Past) and Mike Stackpole (founding member of the Rogue Squadron). This above-average anthology delivers on the same promise as other Tales collections, fleshing out hidden details in the Star Wars universe, with notable appearances by Mara Jade, Senator Garm Bel Iblis, Hal Horn, Talon Karrde, Kyp Durron, and the book's only true heavy-hitter--Boba Fett, in a fun, comic-book style frontal assault on a not-so-invincible Imperial garrison. The stories prove to be winners for the most part, with a good mix of old-hand authors and new bloods, but the Zahn-Stackpole collaboration is undoubtedly the star of the show. --Paul HughesUnited States Books
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