Lit SCOUNDRELS - New Han Solo book written by Timothy Zahn!

Tim Zahn will write a new novel starring Han Solo set in the classic films era.

I'm looking forward to this. Zahn writes Solo very well.

I hope it's a Han and Chewie adventure. LADS ON TOUR!

 

Probably should feature the 'slaver incident' Han mentioned to Karrde on their first meeting, where he gave the ship and its cargo to the slaves.

 

Yes. Been awhile since we had a Han book, and Zahn does a great job with him

 

Awesome, Han hasn't gotten any real love in a while. Most of the time he feels like a background character that has no connection to the Han from the movies. Will be cool to see how his characterization plays out.

 

This is exciting! I'm loving all this fantastic Star Wars news!

 

Yay! This is promising. Zahn knows Han.

 

Wow. Cool. Very cool. He did wonders with Han in Co1. Best Han in years.

 

I'm glad he's writing another book, but this doesn't mesh at all with what I expected based on previous comments of his about his next project. I was really hoping for some more L/M.

I can only wonder if another smuggler may be making an appearance...

 

There a link for this somewhere? This is great news, IMO. Zahn does Solo better than anyone.

 

Yeah, this is very good news. Zahn's portrayal of Han in Choices of One was one of the best versions of the character in... years, honestly. Zahn usually does pretty good with Han (and Lando for that matter). Although I wish more for a Luke/Mara novel, but Han could use another great story too, especially set in the classic era. While I know one of the common complaints is too much focus on the big three (and in the Legacy era I quite agree its a big problem), a Han Solo novel by Tim Zahn in the movie era sounds like a very good idea to me, since Zahn writes an especially competent and awesome Han most times, nice to find out what Zahn's next SW project is.

 

I hope not.

It's been done, a few times.

 

Great. It's not enough to make Luke a dork. Now he'll retcon Han's story. Han young and brash meets Talon Karrde and decides to become a smuggler, dazzled by the ultimate dude...

No thanks. The last one was Mara Sueism and retcon enough.

 

I hope you're joking.

TC

 

Dude, have you seen A New Hope? Luke is a dork, pre-ESB, full stop.

And Han's career as a smuggler has been well covered. While Zahn may have "fixed" some stuff he didn't like in other books, I don't think he's ever done a Fenn Shysa rewrite of a character. Your concerns seem rather unfounded.

 

That occurred prior to the Battle of Yavin.

 

Kinda like how Mara couldn't lift a rock and didn't know how to use a lightsaber and all of a sudden she's a lightsaber super expert wielding power puff girl? While Luke stands there drooling, but doesn't' remember her a whole 6 years later? Like that? oh... yeah, that wasn't a total rewrite either...

 

I hope it's set between TESB and ROTJ.

 

I'm very interested in this... loved the Han Solo Adventure and Trilogy.

Since Zahn uses the movies the most as a referencing point (well, most do, but Zahn especially), I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote about those "tougher places" he and Chewie had gotten into (in reference to the Imperial base)... just watched ROTJ on blu-ray, completely forgot about that line. It would certainly be interesting to see Han and Chewie pull off a heist or something.

I also wouldn't mind a later novel, with him already in the Rebellion. We've never seen Zahn write a totally rogueish Han though, so that could be interesting.

That wasn't a total rewrite, just a retcon... no more than Vader killing Luke's father was just a "certain point of view". Mara's connection to the Emperor was severed by that point, and she essentially had to relearn all that she knew. Besides, even with Allegiance and CoO, she was never ridiculously powerful. Probably around the same level as Luke at the beginning of ROTJ.

I have always wondered if you can daydream in carbonite.

 

It would make sense to have this take place in parallel to Splinter In The Mind's Eye. Then Luke, Leia and Vader won't be in.

 

Man, all these new announcements surely sound like april fool's jokes, as in: too much of what this forum wants to hear.

Stop it, you're killing me!

Anyway, defreezing Han, letting him have some adventures and then having him refreezed in the exact same position wouldn't be surprising for EU. I'm not sure if Zahn would go there, but... you know...

That would definitely make sense in regards to Zahn creating his own little universe of novels.

Then again, wouldn't it also make sense after ROTJ, as there's comparatively little stuff about Han being a bombad general? This might tie in with Karrde's rise to power, Mara's days as a homeless not-yet-smuggler, and probably a reorientation of those troopers that were featured in the last few books. And didn't I hear that Han got the best character arc in one of those two books anyway, meaning that Zahn choosing a Han focus wouldn't be much of a surprise?

 

I love Zahn but I'll be passing on this book. I've never really been much of a Han fan and over the last couple of series I've
come to loathe the character (along with most of his family). I know Zahn is big fan of Han's and I'm sure the book wil be good.

 

I'm still really confused/curious about this in regards to Tim's comments about Dragon*Con about needing to borrow a Wraith from Aaron Allston. But if this is about Han during the film era, the Wraiths don't exist yet. I WANT MORE INFO, DEL REY.