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

For those suggesting Crichton, I do not think he would ever consider writing Star Wars for any amount of money. The man gets some what upset if someone suggests that he is a science fiction writer or that he writes science fiction. He would probably see writing Star Wars as beneath him.

 

For a SpecOps SW book like Hard Contact or anything primarily featuring Alpha or the ARC troopers, I'd have to go with the Aussie writer Matthew Reilly. His stuff is great.

Sure, but the ARC troopers will be more powerful then the entire host of Old Republic Jedi, and will be chewing up all comers like a particullarly violent tunnelling device.

Reilly's okay, in his comic-book-on-page sort of way (complete with onomatopoeia), but his style is more suited to the rather ridiculous - yet still fun - Bond movies of the 70's (eg. Moonraker) rather then anything that's supposed to be taken half seriously. I mean, Ice Station has Schofield swimming away from a nuclear explosion. And taking out an entire base full of SAS by himself. And a lot of incidental objects turning out to be really useful with such regularity that whenever the main character recieves some mundane thing, like, er, a piece of paper, you just know that he's going to use it to cut the throat of the evil Peruvian torture master somewhere down the line (I made that scenario up, but hopefully you get the gist of what I'm saying).

 

Yes, Tom Clancy would be excellent for Rebel Commando-like novels. A prime candidate, I think.

 

Doctor Who novelist Lance Parkin. He'd be good.

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Joss Whedon for a couple comics...

 

i think someone like david eddings would be a good choice as he already has a background in fantasy but i would personally like to see some one like ursula le guin or daphne du maurier of done something with the starwars universe i think they would have brought a whole new feel to the books give them some heart which i think is missing from a lot of the starwars novels then again i think douglas adams should of had a go (hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) he would have put a totally different twist on it.

 

Mastadge: Traviss, Stover, Stewart, Luceno, Zahn, Allston -- they all do it well (or at least to the best of their abilities.

Agreed - but, um, who's Stewart? Add in Keyes, Tyers and Stackpole to that list... and Denning, obviously. And I've found that Shane & Sean repay a lot of rereading...

JediMasterEllic_Kier : Iain M. Banks (if you don't know who he is, find his stuff)

YES!

GrandAdmiralSchmiggy[/i]: Grant Morrison

A Grant Morrison SW plotline would have an alcoholic, divorced and crippled Luke discovering that Leia had returned to power in an alliance with the Sith, and, after much depressing angst, it would end with Farmboy kamikazi'ing his X-wing into the Alliance capitol...



Anyone who catches the reference gets a Golden Ewok!

Rampani: Matthew Reilly.

Hmm - maybe. Lots of action, striking 'visuals' and characters, and he'd do Jedi well - in short, Reilley is fun; but I think David L. Robbins would be better, in the same vein - speaking of which, anyone else think that looked like a very random cameo by Jaina Solo on p. 443 of Last Citadel?

But that's getting away from the main issue...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Iain M. Banks.

Anyone else read the The Algebraist yet?

Any of you think that some of the grace notes looked a wee bit like riffs on the franchise - an art-obsessed bad-guy with a flagship that looks like serious Freudian compensation...

Even if they're not, Banksie is clearly on the right wavelength right now - and seeing him translate his usual concerns into the GFFA would be bloody good fun!

Yes, he's a 'big' novellist, but at the same time, it would be a way of reaching a whole new audience for him...

Apart from that... hmm? Ken MacLeod, obviously. I've been saying for years that Chris Claremont should do a SW comic, and he has the established background of working with George. JMS for TV, certainly. Lawrence Norfolk. Arturo Perez-Reverte - yes, you'd have to get it translated, but it would be a way of breaking the Spanish-speaking market...

You get the idea, anyway...

- The Imperial Ewok

 

Mike Mignola for a book about the ancient Sith...

 

Blitz_vs beat me to it. Stephen King would bring a welcome twist to the Star Wars Universe, I think. Maybe something about the origin and life of Palpatine?

 

Doctor Who novelist Lance Parkin. He'd be good.

Oh, he's great. I think I mentioned his name to Sue awhile back.

 

A Tom Baker-class (Dr Who) type of Jedi, sans the Allston approach to humour, would be awesome. His distinctive flamboyant quixoticity if done right would be fun to read.


George Martin . . .?

No way. The guy uses the same words over and over again for thousands of pages. He'll say host instead of army; craven instead of coward; and he'll call Jaina sweetling and Sidious lordling!

 

Peter David. I'd also like to see George R.R. Martin but it would probably take him four years to write one book. Look at how long its taking him to write A Feast for Crows.

 

I have to agree on David Gemmell but how about George R.R. Martin.

 

Mercedes Lackey.

 

No, no, no, no, no!

Martin would write a book in which the Jedi were vivisected into several competing, debased religions, there was no Light Side, all the characters were distilled from Zahn and Procopius, and the Yuuzhan Vong were recast as zombies who appeared in the opening scene and then not again for several books...



- The Imperial Ewok

 

and the Yuuzhan Vong were recast as zombies who appeared in the opening scene and then not again for several books...

Now that can be etched in transparisteel.

 

I would like to see Emily Bronte do a SW novel, especially something in and around EP III. Seeings how she made Heathcliff so lothefull in Wuthering Heights she would write a positively dasterdly Anakin/Vader. One main flaw, however, she, unfortunately, is dead. I take it it ain't gonna happen.

 

Bronte might be dead, but Michael Chabon is alive and well. He would write a fabulous Star Wars novel. Plus, that might get the EU some academic credentials (which it could use after KJA books).

Chris Claremont would probably write a great comic miniseries, although I wouldn't want him to leave X-Men again. Joss Whedon, likewise.

 

If Bronte wrote Star Wars, Anakin would never have gone over to the darkside. Instead of slaughtering the sand people or what not when he was upset, he'd of gone to his room, locked himself in and died two days later for no apparent reason.

 

I don't know about Michael Chabon, his writing style is fairly different.

How about Eric Nylund? I read his Halo book First Strike, which wasn't bad. I could easily see him doing a Republic Commando-style novel.

 

John Norman...

Jedi of Gor

 

that dude that wrote Ender's Game...cant remember his name at the moment.... i think his last name is Card.

 

His name is Orson Scott Card.

 

I wouldnt mind seeing Peter F. Hamilton or David Feintuch take a shot at the EU.

 

I;d love to see Terry Gookdind write EU. His Sword Of Truth series has borrowed many of Campbell's mythology traits as did GL, and I think he'd do really well