Favorite Star Wars Novels?

[boot]

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE STAR WARS NOVELS?



I say "novels", but anthologies count too.  Right now, I have three favorites, but I think I am about to add a fourth once I finish reading it.



Heir To The Empire by Timothy Zahn

Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

The Last Command by Timothy Zahn

Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry will most likely be added to this list

[Falconer]

Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
Specter of the Past
Vision of the Future

I have my favorites by other authors, but these five by Timothy Zahn are the only stories I know of which are in the league of the Original Trilogy, nailing the characters and nailing Star Wars. Vision of the Future is my single favorite.

[finarvyn]

Like Falconer, the Zahn books are the ones that I have enjoyed the most. At one point I owned pretty much every Star Wars novel published, but eventually I quit reading most of what I had bought. I found that most of the books didn't grab me the way the Zahn ones did.

Splinter of the Mind's Eye is a non-Zahn guilty pleasure. Also the Brian Daley Han Solo books.

[boot]

The Death of Dengar



This is interesting. I am listening to Timothy Zahn's Dark Force Rising, which is the middle book of his original trilogy, and I caught something that I never before noticed in all the times I've read and listened to this book (the trilogy is a my favorite).

On Rishi, where Talon Karrde takes his operation after fleeing Myrkr, Mara Jade is confronted by a bounty hunter looking to cash in on the Empire's contract on her.

The bounty hunter is named Dengar Roth in the book.

The Dengar? The same from The Empire Strikes Back?





I did some digging, and it looks like Zahn did intend for this to be Dengar. He kills off the bounty hunter in Dark Force Rising.

Then Lucas Film and WEG realize that Dengar is featured in the Dark Empire comic, which is set about a year after Zahn's trilogy. In order to "fix" this, WEG publishes, in The Last Command Sourcebook, that the bounty hunter killed in Zahn's book was a man named Gunner Roth who had picked up Dengar's ID and was using it to get jobs and disguise himself.