http://www.theforce.net/books/story...di_CoAuthor_Maya_Kaathryn_Bohnhoff_150545.asp So apparently Nick Rostu died in Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of the Force. Does this mean that it was a clone of Nick Rostu that was a major character in Shadows of Mindor? seriously though don't they have people at Del Rey who check for such obvioius mistakes like this? I just don't understand how you can miss that.
No, apparently he died in Coruscant Nights I. This whole part of the interview is kind of confusing because they talk about multiple books without specifying which is which, and then for some reason she brings up earlier drafts of the novel, like she thought the interviewer had read the first draft and gotten confused (?), but I think she means that Michael Reaves killed Nick in Jedi Twilight and then later she got to kill a different character in Patterns of Force. Pretty sure those books have been out for years, you'd think someone would have noticed by now. I haven't read the CN books but since this is the first I've heard about Nick dying in a book that's been out for five years, I assume either that Reaves considered killing off Nick but ultimately decided not to, or that he wanted to but it was changed in editing at the last minute. Either way, Bohnhoff missed the memo and wrote The Last Jedi under the belief that Nick had died. Or maybe nothing like that happened at all.
Considering Stover reused his own character in Mindor, I will take it that Rostu survived Jedi Twilight.
That seems to be exactly what happened. But shouldn't there be editors looking out for stuff like that? I hate to sound like a angry fan, but it's just annoying to read these books where a character has died and then plays a major role in a book set 20 years later
He was apparently a Clawdite conman. According to Imperial sources, this Clawdite also managed to impersonate a Lannik Jedi Master. What?
Wow this thread is not what I wanted to wake up to first thing in the morning. Talk about getting the day off to a ludicrous start.
Ok, had my coffee and can now think about this like a rational human being. I blame Lorz Geptun. He's the prequel-era Voren Na'al. From here on out anything remotely related to TCW or even the early Dark Times that activates my zilch sense alert I'm chalking up to him and stories he told Luke and Tionne. Heck, Tionne was probably playing her vulcan lute thingamabob while he was talking and wasn't paying attention anyhow. Then she later related the events in 5 slightly different epic ballads much like we have multiple different versions of the same real-world epic myths today on Earth.
What's there not to make sense about a cyborg Dark Lord's need to keep his engine's coolant level topped up?
So does LucasBooks even have editors any more? Or does the 'editing staff' consist of a few executives' kids getting paid under the table for their first afterschool job? Because it's getting beyond the 'pretty ridiculous' point by now.
Doesn't look like it. The last book I read was Darth Plagueis and even that had a few ridiculous mistakes in it. What I want to know is, did this book with "Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff" on the cover actually have any input from Reaves at all? Or is it that the two authors simply stuck to different sections of the book?
Personally, I think Geptun is a more interesting character than Rostu. Just because of the way he thinks...
I always thought Geptun was an opportunistic ****. Good character though. Rostu seems likeable enough for a guy who's been fighting most of his life.