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chiss_man
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Date Posted:
11/6/07 10:02pm
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RE: The next Novel Contract - Updates from Sue
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Even if they were to switch publishers, that doesn't mean we couldn't get more work from our favorite authors, after all authors like Zahn, Allston and Stackpole wrote SW books for both Bantam and Del-Rey. So no worries on that front.
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Rouge77
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Date Posted:
11/6/07 10:11pm
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As unlikely as it is, I would like them to give the contract to someone else than DR. DR's other novels are usually good - minus Jedi Trial - but it's magnum opus, the gargantuan NJO-DN-LotF mess, is mediocre as a whole - there are good books there among the pile, I admit it - and is now ending in a self-defeating crash. They spent over 20 novels and short stories in NJO to create a grand story and an uplifting ending and now they are spending 12 to destroy what they achieved in NJO(much of what they achieved wasn't that good, but it's beside the point). Why should they get the new contract, when they would likely again be like children on a beach, spending lot of time building sand castles and then destroying them?
Post-LotF: More Big Three and Ben, the Boy Wonder. Personally I am hoping for a series of post-Legacy novels. Extremely unlikely, though.
Old Republic:Perhaps some PT novel also, but probably just Darth Bane 3. Not a bad thing, that, true, but the sad thing is that I don't really see them having the courage to explore the pre-PT Old Republic era more. Except if there would be a KOTOR MMO and then we would get some tie-in book.
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TalonCard
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Date Posted:
11/6/07 10:17pm
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Post LOTF...I suppose we're due for a retelling of the Original Trilogy, given that LOTF seems to be recapping the prequels. 
Old Republic...could mean some Prequel trilogy-era stuff, which would be nice.
You know what I'd really like? I think it's time for another "Adventures of Young Film Character" series or standalone. No one wants every single moment of a character's life documented, so it's best done sparingly, but I think we're due for one. Young Qui-Gon has been all but untouched, and he could fall under the Old Republic banner. Lando Calrissian has only had tantalizing hints at his early adventures. Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Boba Fett have all been done several times over, but there are still wide gaps in their stories that have yet to be filled in. Mace Windu, or one of the scads of military officers. Heck, even a Padme novel could be interesting, seeing as how there are almost no stories with her pre-TPM or post-TPM, pre-ATOC.
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Jeff_Ferguson
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Date Posted:
11/6/07 10:55pm
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Doubt if I can find the page, but some time recently, someone asked Sue if there were any chances of a young Leia story, and Sue said that that was something she had been pushing for.
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Charlemagne19
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11/6/07 10:56pm
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Jango_Fettish posted:
Hopefully its really post-LOTF, then we can get "The Conquests of Roan Fel The Great."
Roan Fel is the villain of the series after Legacy.
;-)
Luke kills him.
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Charlemagne19
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BaneOfTheSith posted:
Kyp - maybe the obvious replacement
The sixty year old obvious replacement? The problem with Kyp as Luke's heir is the fact that he's less than a decade younger than him. It's like Pope John Paul's replacement, we're not exactly dealing with a man expected to lead for generations.
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Rouge77
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Date Posted:
11/6/07 11:10pm
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As a new leader Kyp would be there just to keep the seat warm for Ben. 
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jacenskylo
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11/6/07 11:40pm
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I know this will make me universaly hated but, if jacen survives LOTF they could do a trilogy of Jacen finding his way back to his old self
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Rouge77
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11/6/07 11:47pm
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I would like that myself. But I guess that chances of that are as high as getting that trilogy about Xim someone wished for... 
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Date Posted:
11/7/07 1:00am
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Lord_Riven
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11/7/07 1:14am
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As long as they fix the mess that was Dark Nest and Legacy of The Force, I will be satisfied.
This should include -
1. retconning that stupid Vergere was a Sith retcon. (which was totally unnecessary in the first place),
2. making sure Jacen stays dead or stripped of the Force forever,
3. solving the J/J/Z triangle for good,
a. If Jaina and Jag does happen, she move to the Empire of the Hand and have adventures there in the UR
4. letting Luke kill some of the Sith on Korriban (and deliberatly leave the set up for Krayt vague until Legacy Comics are done or for Jon and Jan to do in their own time)
5. Making sure that Ben has friends his age that could form a new core 'next generation'. Another better told JJK/YJK style series with lots of Luke being a wise Jedi Master
6. A Han/Leia book of some sort - maybe short stories of their adventures as a 'retired' couple ala Tales style
Of course, none of these wishes will probably come true. 
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11/7/07 1:17am
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7. Throwing everything after VOTF in the dustbin and start over.
Seriously, haven't they learned anything? No more publishers' brainstorming meetings!
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Excellence
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So it's often authors who determine where to timeline their book, eh?
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11/7/07 3:09am
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If this new contract doesn't somehow involve The Zaarin Insurrection, everyone is fired.
Everyone.
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11/7/07 3:56am
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3. solving the J/J/Z triangle for good,
a. If Jaina and Jag does happen, she move to the Empire of the Hand and have adventures there in the UR
No way! Make it J/Z! And Jag can still be friends with them!
Sorry, just had to say that. 
Seriously though, it needs to be finished. If they continue this after LOTF, I really don't know if I can be held responsible for my actions.
Anyway, I'm hoping that other characters that I like (mainly from YJK) survive. They can't have a next generation if they keep killing them off!
Not much hope for Jacen though. Unless they make him the newest villain, which could have some merit to it.
7. Throwing everything after VOTF in the dustbin and start over.
Seriously, haven't they learned anything? No more publishers' brainstorming meetings!
(sigh) Don't I wish? But unfortunately, you can't change the past.
If this new contract doesn't somehow involve The Zaarin Insurrection, everyone is fired.
With Maarek Stele as the hero? That would be awesome!
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