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Head on over to StarWars.com for a 23-page Fate of the Jedi primer featuring series background, character profiles and an 11-page excerpt of next week’s big release, Aaron Allston’s Outcast. And don’t forget Allston is going on tour, beginning Tuesday in Kentucky.
Over at the Amazon.com listing for Fate of the Jedi: Outcast there’s an e-Postcard (Well, PDF) from Ben to Jaina. It’s funny! Well, the actually message part is. The ‘scrolling’ text seems to think that Jaina is only notable as “Jacen’s sister.” FAIL.
Well, you have a chance to get an early copy – an ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) to be exact: Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist is giving one away.
Speaking of, seems there’s an audio excerpt of the book out. (via)
Wednesday will bring Legacy #33, finishing off the ‘Fight Another Day’ storyline. In other comic news, Randy Stradley said on the Dark Horse boards that there will be an Invasion announcement at WonderCon next weekend.
Five weeks until Fate of the Jedi: Outcast!
Updates from Sue Rostoni: Deathtroopers is becoming a hardcover, and the release date has been moved up to October 13th – all the better for Halloween sales, no doubt. Also moving is the newly-titled Fate of the Jedi: Backlash, back a week to January 26. Our book release schedule has been updated.
The StarWars.com Twitter has broken their first bit of news: The title to Fate of the Jedi #4: Backlash. I don’t even want to admit that the first place my head went with that… Perhaps the next series should be Irony of the Fandom? Will Mara be on the cover? How meta are we going to get with this? I MUST KNOW.
In all seriousness, Backlash will be by perhaps the least backlashed author of recent years, Aaron Allston, and is due out next January.
As promised by the Random House spring catalog, Fate of the Jedi author Aaron Allston is going on a seven-city tour for the series’ first book, Outcast. Fans in Lexington, Chicago, Kansas City, Seattle, Sacramento, Phoenix, and Austin, mark your calenders: Details are beneath the cut. Continue reading “Allston on tour for Fate of the Jedi: Outcast“
Speak of the Devil… It’s not what I expected at all. So bright! I like that it’s a new, very bold direction… I don’t like that it looks like a basic vector trace. Hrm. And why is Ben (yes, that’s Ben on the right) wearing Lando’s shirt? Dare we go there?
There’s also jacket text, under the cut. Continue reading “Fate of the Jedi: Outcast cover, blurb”
Sure, we got Blood Oath the other day, but as things stand that’s not coming out until December… Whereas the first Fate of the Jedi book is due in March. No doubt we’ll get it soon, but for now, here’s what Sue Rostoni has to say:
I think I had posted earlier that OUTCAST would have Luke and Ben on the front — but we reviewed the cover yesterday and think it will look better with just Luke (Ben on the back) — Plus, the FOTJ is going to have a completely different cover treatment than what we’ve used in the past.
I don’t think having a EU character featured on the front is going to make a difference to readers — it hasn’t in the past, for the most part.
As long as it the phrase ‘like Rebel Force‘ doesn’t come up, I’m hopeful! Meanwhile, there’s been a little confusion about Outcast being in Previews under the name The Hidden Ones, which Sue says was a working title/placeholder.
StarWars.com has the cover summaries for The Clone Wars: No Prisoners and Fate of the Jedi: Outcast. The Outcast blurb is quite intriguing and gives us a few more plot details! Check it out at the link or under the cut. Continue reading “New blurbs for Outcast and No Prisoners!”