On the Star Wars Library, We go through the Original Star Wars Expanded Universe (Legends) in publication order. To see how the saga evolved over time.
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I read this book when it was first published, so I totally bought into the whole Akanah plot. I enjoyed this trilogy; it gave so much more depth to our heroes: we witness the everyday realities of Leia Organa-Solo's role as Chief of State; her being sometimes at odds with Luke's point of view. And Han Solo, (trying to) ride herd on three rambunctious Jedi children - quite at odds with Disney's portrayal of him as the deadbeat dad.
Great video. Today I’m ordering some EU books on Amazon, working through Brennan’s video, reading some EU comics, watching Clone Wars 2003, on D+, and maybe draw a picture inspired by that show (I’m working on a series of drawings based on it).
I’ve read most of the first rogue squadron book, started the 2nd one, and skipped the 3rd and listening to the audio book for wraith squadron, I know it’s been a messy order, but considering how much I loved the team dynamics of the novels, would getting the complete comic run be worth reading even if I didn’t finish the other books? I was thinking of getting the marvel epic collection which has the run.
I checked just to be sure but I’m surprised this isn’t collected in the New Republic omnibus vol 2, which is a oversized hardcover being published this year in June, I plan to read that omnibus this year and it collects the thrawn trilogy graphic novels and dark empire 1 & 2, hoping for more omnibuses to be published by marvel of the out of print stories! There’s also a upcoming omnibus for tales of the Jedi and dawn of the Jedi, which I think contains out of print stories! 👍 thought it might be good to give a heads up for the legends/EU stories!
Thanks for the omnibus update! That's strange this wouldn't be collected, maybe in a volume 3? I would like to get my hands on some of the omnibus. What a great way to collect these stories.
I bought the Junior Jedi Knights books secondhand sometime after reading The New Jedi Order series - mainly because they'd been listed in the "Star Wars: The Novels - What Happened When?" section of the earlier books in that series. I've never gotten around to reading them...I'll be reading the books and comics in publication order to chart the progression of the EU.
I think the Callista trilogy works well enough. The whole grand tour of movie locations was the *only* thing that marred "Darksaber" for me - it seemed like an extension of *The Illustrated Star Wars Universe* that Kevin J Anderson worked on with Ralph McQuarrie, and served only to slow the pace of the novel. I know now (after the fact) that a bunch of Luke/Mara shippers were incensed about Callista being with Luke - but until the Hand of Thrawn duology where Mara Jade would figure so prominently; I had no idea the saga was going that way.
Great review. I do think that both the Young Jedi Knights books and the Junior Jedi Knights books are essential to the Legends continuity because the two series combined basically set the next generation of characters up for The New Jedi Order and everything that came after it that's set after it.
I think the last time I read this book was in 1996, when it first came out in the UK; published by Sapling, an imprint of Boxtree Limited - so I've forgotten much of the story in the intervening years. It's interesting that it seems to foreshadow events in "Invincible".(2008) I'm wondering if they plotted the stories *that* far ahead?
No, at this point the novels being published by Bantam weren't being plotted too far ahead. Authors would read their peers's books to prepare to write their novels, and if they liked something that, say, Timothy Zahn did in The Last Command, they would expand upon it in their book, if that book took place after The Last Command. So when The New Rebellion was being written, Kristine Kathryn Rusch read what had come out of The Young Jedi Knights at that point and included Brakiss in her novel as it took place before The Young Jedi Knights series. But the publishers didn't have an overarcing storyline for these early novels. That changed when Del Rey got the publishing license for Star Wars back in the late '90s, and that's where The New Jedi Order came from. And from there The Dark Nest Trilogy built upon NJO, and Legacy of the Force built on both the trilogy and the NJO series. Troy Denning probably read Shadow Academy at some point before being hired to write for The New Jedi Order, Dark Nest, and Legacy of the Force, and together the authors involved in Legacy of the Force decided to go that route for Invincible.
Appreciate the library tour; it's always great to see how other Star Wars EU fans arrange their collections 👍 - my own is in publication order, with the comics, trades, reference books etc stored separately. Thanks for sharing. 🙏
Love the Library Tour man! Very impressive collection. I couldn't help but notice that you've been reading Supernatural Encounters. We've been covering it in a book club on my channel. I would love to have you on sometime to chat about your impressions of SE if you're ever interested. Let me know and keep up the great work.
@@SpenceSWlibrary Yeah for sure man. By the way, would you ever consider coming on my channel for an interview about how got into Star Wars, the EU, and started your channel?
I’ve never read this novel before, a lot of other channels and some other people call this and darksaber as “the worst EU books,” but I haven’t read it myself to judge it fairly, but this has classic drew struzan wrap a Round cover art which is really cool, not gonna lie when it comes to EU superweapons: The eye of Palpatine and suncrusher sound pretty dope to me 😁 keep up the reviews, Spencer! 😎👍
Publication order seems like the best way to view the Expanded Universe material; if nothing else, it shows the evolution of the saga. I'd tried to arrange my book and comic collection this way, but the reference book "Star Wars: Year by Year - A Visual Chronicle" was a bit sparse on some details. This way is much easier.
For all its problems, its the first time the Solo kids get the spotlight, and they do pretty well against their kidnappers considering that they were only 5 and 3 years old at the time. The fact that they saved Luke out of his Waru-induced funk was touching, and I will argue that this book treats Luke better than a certain film franchise did, but that's just my opinion. However, yes, it is easily skippable.
I always found it bizarre how Kam and Sedriss just appeared. This is essential reading for the Dark Empire series if you ask me. That hardcover looks awesome, I'm jealous! Love your videos mate :)
River of Chaos is also one of the only multi-issue Dark Horse story arcs from the 90's that were never collected into trade paperbacks. Droids: Season of Revolt and Rogue Squadron: The Rebel Opposition were the others I believe.
Love the old black and white guides and the old visual dictionary’s! Glad to see they’re not forgotten, I like the alien species guidebook along with the reference books! Btw have you gotten to read the “tales books?” Like tales from jabbas palace or tales of the bounty hunters, and tales from mos eisley? 😎👌📚
