Exactly. I'm sure they are good books, but they aren't Star Wars. Just the same as if you wrote a story and posted it on the net. It might be set in the SW galaxy but it's not SW because Lucas didn't right it.
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And again I agree, but that still doesn't make it true Star Wars (and on a personal note, I hev never found a non-GL Star Wars work that I liked as much as the films)
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I don't like EU:
there is only one book that isn't so and that is the trilogy of Zahn.
In all the others there is always a superweapon or a lost Jedi.
That superweapon is just a modified DS and the lost Jedi can't be there because the Sith are always with 2 and OB1 said that Luke was their only hope, and than Yoda talked about Leia. You can't turn Jedi in one day
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I don;t think you are QUITE being fair there, Yerssot. While many of the EU books have been stuc; with unecessary power trumping (returned Emperors, cloned Lukes, even more superweaons), plenty stand out fine as stories on their own merit.
But still not QUITE proper Star Wars; in fact some of them are quite a long way away from it. Though I would sumbit that it would be entirely impractical to force writers to try and duplicate GL's vision; as RC says, these are interpretations, not copies.
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I have about 65 SW books, and all but 3 of them rock. I will admit that they are not the most intellectually stimulating books I own, but they do get my imagination running and it was reading Heirs to the Empire about 7 years ago that got me reinterested in SW.
Aug 24th, 2001 05:26 AM
