Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
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.
More disturbing-clad slave-world action in tomorrow’s only Star Wars release, The Clone Wars #4. And on the subject of future releases, there are Fate of the Jedi: Outcast spoilers out and about already. (The book is out March 24, and it seems early even for regular reader copies: It appears ARCs are the culprit.) If you’re into spoilers, you know where to go to find them; If you’re not, it’s time to avoid a few key sites.
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“
Two big bits of book news on the official site today: The title for Drew Karpyshyn’s third Darth Bane novel, Dynasty of Evil, and the blurb for the second Fate of the Jedi book, Christie Golden’s Omen. It contains what looks like some spoilers for the first book, Outcast, so it’s black-barred beneath the cut. Continue reading “Bane #3 title, Fate of the Jedi: Omen blurb”
EUC nabbed Lucasfilm Licensing editor Sue Rostoni to talk about Legacy of the Force, Fate of the Jedi, and other EU works past, present, and future.
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.
Our first street date shuffle of the new contract! After a fan noticed that there was something awry with the book’s catalog listing, Sue Rostoni has confirmed that Elaine Cunningham’s Blood Oath has been moved back to a December release date.
The manuscript hasn’t been delivered yet — it just got to be too late to make the deadline, so we moved it. I feel badly because the story, as you know, takes place before OUTCAST so we wanted it to come out as close to OUTCAST as possible… but it didn’t happen.
Meanwhile, there’s a whole new schedule entry on Sue’s blog, with a few additional details about the 2009 books, including some minor Fate of the Jedi details.
Off to update our book release schedule…
Bad news, folks – The Essential Atlas release date has moved from February to July. Still confident we’ll see it… eventually. (Thanks for the heads-up, Zee Zee!)
EU Cantina has posted their interview with James Luceno. Topics include writing, Millennium Falcon, Brian Daley, and the future of the EU. They’re also taking questions for their next interview, with Lucasfilm Licensing Executive editor Sue Rostoni.