Post by finarvyn on Jul 28, 2018 5:30:43 GMT -6
A bit of a ramble for me, and possibly of interest to no one else, but here goes....
I've read some of the "new timeline" books and I know there isn't much interest in it here, but I saw a while back that Timothy Zahn had made a Thrawn book. At the time I didn't buy it because I thought it was a little bizarre for a guy to write a book about a character that was the centerpiece of a series of books that revived Star Wars fan interest but had since been eliminated from the "canon" along with the rest of the extended universe. So the old stuff he wrote about Thrawn wouldn't be official, but anything new he wrote would be? What if he wrote something in the new book that directly contradicted something he had written in an older book? The fact that it would be the same author writing both sets of timelines seems a little strange to me, particularly when he was writing about a character he had created. This just had "bad karma" written all over it, I thought.
Anyway, when the Thrawn book came out, I passed on it. I was sad because my Star Wars collection is mostly "movies plus Zahn" and here was a Zahn book that I was going to boycott. My rationale was that Thrawn wasn't my favorite character anyway and the "new timeline" wasn't my favorite, either.
Then I saw the other day at B&N that there was another Thrawn book out, one where he and Darth Vader interact. Damn. I like Vader and I like Zahn, and Zahn never got to do Vader before since all of his other books (except for the "old days" book) were five years after Return of the Jedi.
So I decided to lose just a little of my soul and I ordered both of the Thrawn books in the "new timeline" in hardback. I'll try to get to them soon so that I can report back about what I think about the things. Zahn is just too good not to gamble upon.
Okay, ramble over. Anyone read the new Thrawn books?
I've read some of the "new timeline" books and I know there isn't much interest in it here, but I saw a while back that Timothy Zahn had made a Thrawn book. At the time I didn't buy it because I thought it was a little bizarre for a guy to write a book about a character that was the centerpiece of a series of books that revived Star Wars fan interest but had since been eliminated from the "canon" along with the rest of the extended universe. So the old stuff he wrote about Thrawn wouldn't be official, but anything new he wrote would be? What if he wrote something in the new book that directly contradicted something he had written in an older book? The fact that it would be the same author writing both sets of timelines seems a little strange to me, particularly when he was writing about a character he had created. This just had "bad karma" written all over it, I thought.
Anyway, when the Thrawn book came out, I passed on it. I was sad because my Star Wars collection is mostly "movies plus Zahn" and here was a Zahn book that I was going to boycott. My rationale was that Thrawn wasn't my favorite character anyway and the "new timeline" wasn't my favorite, either.
Then I saw the other day at B&N that there was another Thrawn book out, one where he and Darth Vader interact. Damn. I like Vader and I like Zahn, and Zahn never got to do Vader before since all of his other books (except for the "old days" book) were five years after Return of the Jedi.
So I decided to lose just a little of my soul and I ordered both of the Thrawn books in the "new timeline" in hardback. I'll try to get to them soon so that I can report back about what I think about the things. Zahn is just too good not to gamble upon.
Okay, ramble over. Anyone read the new Thrawn books?
