Books

‘Star Wars’ flashback: The top 10 short stories from ‘Tales from Jabba’s Palace’ (1996) (Book review)

Jabba the Hutt’s palace in “Return of the Jedi” was George Lucas’s “faster and more intense” answer to the cantina in “A New Hope.” Also

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: The top 8 short stories from ‘Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina’ (1995) (Book review), and ‘Tales from Mos Eisley’ (1996) (Comic book review)

Like so many “risky” concepts, “Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina” (1995) ultimately proved to be a brilliantly obvious one. Up to this point on the “Star

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Han Solo Trilogy Volume 3: Rebel Dawn’ (1998) (Book review)

“Rebel Dawn” (1998) wraps up the best and most essential “Star Wars” trilogy outside of the classic films. Honestly, although its difficult to make a cross-media

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Han Solo Trilogy Volume 2: The Hutt Gambit’ (1997) (Book review)

A.C. Crispin’s “The Hutt Gambit” (1997), the second book in the “Han Solo Trilogy,” does the best job of tying together disparate aspects of the Expanded Universe

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Han Solo Trilogy Volume 1: The Paradise Snare’ (1997) (Book review)

By lucky coincidence, I wrapped up re-reading “The Paradise Snare” (1997), the first book of A.C. Crispin’s “Han Solo Trilogy,” just as Disney announced plans for a young

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Han Solo and the Lost Legacy’ (1980) (Book review)

“Han Solo and the Lost Legacy” (1980) completes a perfect 3-for-3 for Brian Daley writing about our favorite “Star Wars” scoundrel. While “Han Solo at Stars’

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Timothy Zahn blends ‘Ocean’s 11’ with ‘Star Wars’ in ‘Scoundrels’ (Book review)

Timothy Zahn started his “Star Wars” career with five books dealing with the big picture of galactic war and politics, but his last five entries

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Han Solo’s Revenge’ (1979) (Book review)

Timothy Zahn’s Han Solo-centered “Scoundrels” was recently published, and like every book about the smuggler, his Wookiee sidekick and his faster-than-she-looks ship, it will have a high

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Young Jedi Knights’ books (1995-98) (Book reviews)

On the heels of the excellent “Clone Wars” four-parter featuring younglings Byph, Gungi, Ganodi, Zatt, Petro and Katooni, I decided to finally dive into Kevin

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John’s top 10 ‘Star Wars’ novelists (Book commentary)

I’ve been doing occasional “Star Wars Flashback” entries, but I thought I’d take a break here and give a rundown of my top 10 “Star

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