AGAIN!!! Who would you like to see writing Star Wars?

For novels or comics, I'd love to see:

Peter David and Greg Rucka.

For novels, I'd love to see:

Kage Baker or David Gemmell.

I'll give reasons later. For now, I'm late for class!

 

David Gemmell?

Yeah, I guess he'd do pretty well. I've only read one of his short stories, not any of his novels, but he'd be a good choice.

 

I didn't know he'd written any short fiction, but he writes straight-up action-packed heroic fiction with a capital HERO about as well as anyone out there, and I'd like to see his take on a Jedi.

 

Peter David would be a good choice, I like his writing and it would suit Star Wars.

How about Karin Lowachee and/or Allen M. Steele? They're both excellent authors, and I think that they could do something cool.

 

Jonathen Stroud.

 

Roger Allen's Corellian Trilogy had all the essential elements of ongoing intrigue and climatic drama. And I liked the maturity and style of Michael McDowell's Black Fleet.

I'm not going to nominate anyone, really, as no matter how good their own material is . . . something happens when they write SW. It becomes simplistic childish fare.

 

AGAIN!!! i would like Brain Jaques and Tom Clancy (Clancy would be good at Republic Commando style books with precision and alot of gear to describe, of course he couldnt do as good as Traviss did, GREAT BOOK)

 

If there are any Infinities novels, they should be done by Harry Turtledove.

 

Dammit, Mas! Peter David is MY choice!

Mine! Or I will help you not!

 

I'd like to see PAD novels rather than comics, myself.

 

Mine! Or I will help you not!

Is that the line? I've always thought that it was, "Mine! For I will help you now.".

Anyways, as for the question at hand, I'd have to agree with Excellence. Most (most, mind you) authors seem to lose a little something when coming into the SW universe. That's how I see it, anyway.

 

There are two sorts of Star Wars authors. Those who see it as easy-pay hackwork, and those who take it seriously. Traviss, Stover, Stewart, Luceno, Zahn, Allston -- they all do it well (or at least to the best of their abilities. It's the people like Shane&Dix, Sherman&Cragg, KJA and so forth you need to watch out for.

 

Yeah, that's pretty much how I divide them, as well. Stover and Traviss especially have really impressed me with their SW work. As such, I went out and bought Stover's non-SW stuff awhile back and enjoyed them very, very much. I've also bought Ms. Traviss' two non-SW books, but have yet to get around to them. I'm looking forward to them, though.

 

Compare Williams and Dix's own material with Force Heretic and there's a galactic difference. When I heard they were doing a SW trilogy, I knew what their Evergence and Orphans trilogies were and couldn't wait for a blast.

The farce, more like. I learnt to temper my hope, and until Del Rey starts realising SW has more than a young readership and fluffy stories, they'll continue to alienate older readers who want more than endless X-wing fights and so on.

They're playing it safe, the fools. Look how many coming books are set in the movie trilogy years and purges. Yet more characters we know can't die or have little survival hope. I flat out refuse to read the Timothy book set after Yavin. Skywalker won't even have the Force. Like the Empire comics, the core cast it will have won't die! Where's the drama!

I don't know when Vos, Secura and Tholme will die---and that's the blast of reading. Dynamic adventures when anything could happen. These are the planners who don't just throw a hundred continuity references like Luceno for no reason, but use them for storyline purposes.

Luceno knows his SW lore, but the ability to overdose the references does not make a fine author. It slows the pace, breaks several strict writing rules at that, and adds needless info irrelevent to the scene. TUF was a shocking sample of this. Endless lists of names . . .

Allston's Wraith Squad Trilogy was great . . . his SOA and Enemy Lines Duology was pure rubbish. I have little interest in sampling his coming SW trio. I haven't bought a SW book since TUF came out, if Shatterpoint can be considered one. And it looks like another year too.

Why would I buy Survivor's Quest if the book character will not know the answers the reader will decades ago? If they made a 10th X-wing books, it'd only have starfighter names and fights we haven't already seen before, and they can't seem to say much other than sithspit or sithspawn.

I want to read something worthwhile, not books that milk the cow dry. Another Wheel of Time novel is coming next year, the 12th one, there's a large pool of dissatisfaction from just midseries when plot repetition is the way to go.

 

Brain Jaques and Tom Clancy

NO. Jaques has not had a new idea in years, what would we have? Ewok novels? Clancy would probably find some way to throw the russians in against the empire.

 

There are two sorts of Star Wars authors. Those who see it as easy-pay hackwork, and those who take it seriously. Traviss, Stover, Stewart, Luceno, Zahn, Allston -- they all do it well (or at least to the best of their abilities. It's the people like Shane&Dix, Sherman&Cragg, KJA and so forth you need to watch out for.

I would argue that KJA did work to the best of his abilities.

 

Unfortunately, we're never going to see a SW humor novel.

If we did, I'd love to see Donald Westlake write it.

 

I flat out refuse to read the Timothy book set after Yavin. Skywalker won't even have the Force. Like the Empire comics, the core cast it will have won't die! Where's the drama!

You assume that he's going to be writing about the core cast. I'd at least wait until I heard what it was about to decry it.

 

I would argue that KJA did work to the best of his abilities.

I'll second that.

 

True, ATimson. But this is Del Rey, and it's set after Yavin, and they think nothing brings in strong readership than a book spam pack with all those movie names.

Just the setting tells you a lot, and I have a few pipelines myself.

 

Goodkind.

 

If Goodkind were writing SW, we'd have Jedi apprentices having to go through kinky sex rituals, Mara would probably be raped and killed, Han would be tortured and turn into a communist . . . on second thought -- maybe Goodkind should write some SW. . .

Did you hear that Tor had to recall every single DEBT OF BONES paperback because the copyright page said that the book was copyright Robert Jordan. Heckuva mistake, huh?

 

True, ATimson. But this is Del Rey, and it's set after Yavin, and they think nothing brings in strong readership than a book spam pack with all those movie names.

On the other hand, this is Zahn. Y'know, the guy who the editors seem to be afraid of? If he wants to do something unexpected, they'll let him.

Just the setting tells you a lot, and I have a few pipelines myself.

I wish I had pipelines.

 

J.K Rowling? oh no, not really.
I was thinking Margaret Weis actually, or- and I'm sure this would NEVER happen- Anne Rice. However one of my favorite authors is already writing star wars, so I can't complain. (troy denning) I'm just hoping I don't lose my sanity searching without success for spoilers on the upcoming darknest trilogy.

 

If Goodkind were writing SW, we'd have Jedi apprentices having to go through kinky sex rituals, Mara would probably be raped and killed, Han would be tortured and turn into a communist . . . on second thought -- maybe Goodkind should write some SW. . .

As long as it wasn't one of the preachy volumes (Faith being the one that comes foremost to mind), it'd all be good.

Did you hear that Tor had to recall every single DEBT OF BONES paperback because the copyright page said that the book was copyright Robert Jordan. Heckuva mistake, huh?

They ain't getting mine. I'm actually surprised it took them this long to notice--I could've told them it was wrong last Friday....