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20 New Star Wars Books and Comics to be Released

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 13 2015, @05:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the splinter-in-the-mind's-eye dept.

Nobuddy writes:

With most of the Expanded Universe declared officially non-canon, the Universe is relatively open and unexplored. Disney publishing along with Lucasarts have announced 20 new stories to fill in some of the details before the new movie is released.

Some love all the extra background material, while others never bothered. Are there any of the EU stories that you felt made for a better setting overall, and why? What might they do better this time around?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by fishybell on Friday March 13 2015, @06:08AM

    by fishybell (3156) on Friday March 13 2015, @06:08AM (#157158)

    Step 1: Remove canon of expanded universe stories
    Step 2: ???
    Step 3: Profit!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2015, @06:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2015, @06:15AM (#157161)

    The EU almost to a page is fucking awful. The only ones even CLOSE to readable was the Thrawn trilogy.

    TBH, while I'm not surprised this discussion is now on..... I honestly thought the other place and here would have had something about Terry Prachett?

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by ticho on Friday March 13 2015, @06:48AM

      by ticho (89) on Friday March 13 2015, @06:48AM (#157168) Homepage Journal

      Anything written for EU by Timothy Zahn was quite good. Above mentioned Thrawn trilogy, Hand of Thrawn duologu, Outbound Flight + Survivor's Quest. The rest, well... Mostly average.

      Still, it will be miles ahead of anything Disney will come up with.

    • (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Friday March 13 2015, @08:43PM

      by Nobuddy (1626) on Friday March 13 2015, @08:43PM (#157459)

      This was originally submitted before Terry died.