Star Wars expanded universe

DanH84

DanH84

DanH84

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hi, i've just watched all my star wars movies and i's put me in mind that when i was younger i used to have some books about the expanded universe which were pretty good. something about a blue imperial admiral?? i had the trilogy + a couple of others like courtship of princess leia and one i've still got the crystal star.

Anyway, i'm in the mood as i have a dearth of reading material for some Star Wars mythos reading. I'll need to buy pretty much all the books again but i'd like to do it in a linear order and i'd like the ones that follow the main arc of characters/descendants. i seem to remember a couple about rogue squadron or somesuch that were almost standalone. i'm not really interested in those.

well, i hope you get what i'm after. Any advice on purchases and purchase order would be much appreciated.
 
Nowadays there are simply hundreds of books, you have to really know which bits you're interested in.
 
Best ones to start with are the Thrawn Trilogy i think it is, they start directly after ROTJ.

The books are Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and Last Command. They are cracking books, also the Rogue Squadron books are very good.
 
If you look through the later books like the new jedi order book they have a timeline in them. If you want the first book after ROTJ thats a main book then, The truce at Bakura is the first.

Everything leading on from ROTJ...

Tales from Jabbas palace
3 book series The bounty hunter wars
Truce at Bakura

6.5 years after ROTJ

X wing series 7 books

8 years after

The courtship of princess leia
A forest apart
Tatooine ghost

9 Years after

The thrawn trilogy, Heir to the empire etc

Thats where I started and then went back and read the others.

Another X wing book Isards revenge

11 years after

The jedi academy trilogy, for me the best of all the books

12 years after

Children of the jedi
Darksaber
Planet of twilight

Another X wing book Starfighters of Adumar

14 years after

The crystal star

16 years after

The blackfleet trilogy

18 years after

The corellian trilogy

19 years after

The hand of thrawn duology

Excellent books Specter of the past and vision of the future, it all goes downhill from here ;)

23 years after ROTJ

Young jedi knight series

25-30 years after

21 books on the new jedi order. I suggest reading those last as you need the characters pre-stories.

There are also some really good earlier books, the Hans solo adventure trilogy, tales from Mos eisley and shadows of the empire (a must read).

:)
 
Proc said:
Best ones to start with are the Thrawn Trilogy i think it is, they start directly after ROTJ.

The books are Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and Last Command. They are cracking books, also the Rogue Squadron books are very good.
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Those Admiral Thrawn ones were the only books I thought were worth the effort. The only others I've tried were a fairly uninspired Truce at Bakura, and some godawful trilogy of trash by Kevin J. Anderson.

But the 'Thrawn' trilogy are a good, and slightly dark read. :)
 
I wasn't aware that there was a set of books leading on from the movies? I thought the term 'Expanded Universe' was just used to describe such things as star wars games, documentaries on the movies etc.

Fantastic - I'll need to look into these books.
 
Moredhel said:
The New Jedi Order series really is great. A good story line and some really dramatic moments. :)
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Starts well, middle books are fantastic, then Lucas stuck his oar in and ruined the NJO series.

The NJO would have made a fantastic trilogy of films, as would the Jedi academy series. Especially the academy ones for showing the power of the combined jedi.
 
shifty_uk said:
I wasn't aware that there was a set of books leading on from the movies? I thought the term 'Expanded Universe' was just used to describe such things as star wars games, documentaries on the movies etc.

Fantastic - I'll need to look into these books.
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"Expanded Universe" is pretty much everything that isn't a starwars film!
imo anyway!
 
MRMOBEUS. said:
"Expanded Universe" is pretty much everything that isn't a starwars film!
imo anyway!
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And if you want to release anything under the star Wars name it has to maintain continuity (there's a huge database on the star wars website you can use, not to mention Wookieepedia), so you can't write a novel saying Luke dies right after the battle of Endor or something, so all the books tie together well.
 
Are there any books that expand on the emperor?

I have read the Thrawn trilogy and they were superb.
 
I can't remember which book it was that i had from the library, but it was the one where luke is searching for his mother and lando, r2, c3 etc are trapped on some spaceship?? sorry guys i know thats really vague:p
but how could he be searching for his mother taking into account what happens in episodeIII !?
can anyone enlighten me here/? and did he find her?
what was the 'twist'?
 
MRMOBEUS. said:
I can't remember which book it was that i had from the library, but it was the one where luke is searching for his mother and lando, r2, c3 etc are trapped on some spaceship?? sorry guys i know thats really vague:p
but how could he be searching for his mother taking into account what happens in episodeIII !?
can anyone enlighten me here/? and did he find her?
what was the 'twist'?
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That's the black Fleet Crisis books (a series of 3), and while we know what happened in Episode 3, Luke and Leiah don't know what happened or who their mother was. Or even if she's still alive or not.

I'm not going to say what happened at the end for obvious reasons. These forums have no spoiler tags. :)
 
"Luke and Leiah don't know what happened or who their mother was. Or even if she's still alive or not.

I'm not going to say what happened at the end for obvious reasons. These forums have no spoiler tags."

Bah!!:(
email me it in trust then!:D
 
I thought it was children of the jedi, when he finds out more about his mother?

Or is that the one where he visits his fathers holiday retreat world :D
 
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