The official site interviews author Karen Traviss about today’s release, Bloodlines, the second book in the Legacy of the Force series. Also included – a new excerpt.
Hey! It’s the Exile cover!
But… erm… Is Leia a little off? Or is it just me?
Don’t forget, Bloodlines comes out tomorrow. And… drumroll… there’s an excerpt up.
Bloodlines excerpt!
Yesterday, Sue Rostoni said the cover for Aaron Allston’s Exile is hours away from approval… I think we may see it on starwars.com tonight.
To tide you over, there’s an excerpt of Karen Traviss’ Bloodlines beneath the cut. Continue reading “Bloodlines excerpt!”
This is (not) the war that never ends…
Andrew Wheeler has some thoughts on Tempest and the Things Get Worse-ness of the Expanded Universe, to which I can only say… Yeah. I know far too many people, avid EU readers before the NJO, who now are… not. Wheeler hits on the head one reason some folks (including me) view the Bantam line as more successful, depite the mixed quality of the books themselves – storylines very rarely lasted longer than a trilogy or so. You didn’t have book after book of endless catastrophe. If one book or trilogy bored, the next could be a complete 180 in any number of ways. There was, quite simply, variety.
I have hopes for the Legacy series – I’m generally hopeful, at least in the early stages. At the very least, it doesn’t look to be shaping up to anything on the level of the NJO, where I might have welcomed a book by Kevin J. Anderson if he just made the big bad and incredibly boring Yuuzhan Vong simply go away. (Finally, an acceptable use for those excess superweapons!) LOTF, with the linchpin of a civil war where both sides are populated by ‘good’ guys, and the possibility for main baddies who are, if not totally sympathetic, actually interesting, could avoid the NJO syndrome.
Maybe.
Cover art confidential
The official site profiles Jason Felix, the cover artist for the Legacy of the Force series.
Pablo blogs the Legacy of the Force panel
Stuff’s gonna blow up! Okay, we now know that book 6 will be Inferno, Karen Traviss’ Leia is quite snarky, and you crazy Jaina/Jag kids shouldn’t give up hope.
Also… two more Republic Commando novels are on the way.
Boba Speaks
Karen Traviss points to an audiobook excerpt of Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines. It’s first person from the point of Boba Fett.
Expanded Universe updates
SF Crowsnest has an interview with Aaron Allston about Betrayal.
Science Fiction Book Club Editor Andrew Wheeler has read Bloodlines and has a brief word. No spoilers, just general observations.
The Dark Horse website, including the Star Wars section, has been redesigned.
Dan Wallace has posted endnotes for The New Essential Guide to Droids.
More Betrayal fun…
Here’s an excerpt… And here’s an interview!
Also, Aaron stopped by tonight’s chat, briefly. You can read his remarks over at TFN.
Here’s the full chat transcript, and a shortcut to Aaron’s appearance. He answers a few burning questions.
Chewbacca doesn’t die, I promise
Aaron’s Legacy of the Force: Betrayal is out today. Do you have your copy yet?
If you have, don’t forget the starwars_eu chat tonight.