Lit Star Wars Insider short fiction -- Use other thread for JtTFA shorts!

*coughongoingcomicseriesthreadscough*

 

Also loved it, but then to be expected from JJM , who really never disappoints with just using the setting in different ways and populating it with interesting characters.

What?

 

I think Orientation's the best of the short stories I've read in Insider in the new canon. I liked seeing Sloane, I mostly enjoyed seeing Vader and Sidious' working relationship. It was really intriguing.

This is a great idea for a thread. Insider said that every issue going forward will have a short story. I've heard that Blade Squadron will be returning as well.

I thought the naval trainer was a good character. His motivation is still very GAR, and it's good to see someone in the Empire who isn't very Imperial.

 

I added a link.

 

But these aren't comics...

 

The point was, if we're starting to combine recurring stuff in lieu of separate threads...but I digress. I don't have the newest Insider yet but this story makes me really anxious to rectify that. I've been meaning to start up a digital subscription this year but it's hard to motivate myself to put ~$50 into it.

 

Yep, the short stories are always really nice but the rest of the content tends to fall short of the asking price.

 

Yeah; word-for-word the short stories are by far the most expensive SW fiction being produced--even if you ignore the 2-4 issues per year that just have novel excerpts.

 

Hope this story is included with Lords Of The Sith.....if not then they should release an omnibus collection of short stories for those of us who miss them.

 

I could definitely see this make it into the paperback. It seems tied to it enough. Otherwise, I'd like to see them put these stories online at some point. They're not all great, but they are canon and therefore important, right? Everyone should get access to them.

 

This is why I'm actually considering a purchase of that Rise of the Empire omnibus coming out in September, the one with AND and Tarkin along with three new short stories, despite it being a pretty obvious and brazen cash grab. The way I figure it, for $15 I'm basically getting three stories' worth of new content, and since I'm already willing to pay $7.99 for a short story when I buy the Insider, at $5 per story I'm getting a bargain. (That $7.99 admittedly does buy me the additional content in the rest of the Insider, but I'm pretty much just there for the story.)

 

I'm looking to buy that as well, if only so I'd have an actual physical copy of AND to peruse from time to time.

 

A very good story indeed and I loved the inclusion of Rae Sloane. I hope these kind of appearances of characters from elsewhere continues throughout the new canon, it really gives a sense of connectivity.

Also the next short story is about Lando

 

I loved Sloane in AND and I love her here. She's clever, competent, and ambitious. Just the kind of officer the Empire needs, from the point of view of the Empire itself, and from the point of view of the reader who needs to believe they've controlled the galaxy for decades.

 

Wait a second how did people have orientation in april?.....isnt that in the may issue?

 

The US version was released on April 22, the UK a while later. Subscribers often receive their issues a few days earlier so most people will have gotten the issue now.

 

So basically Rae Sloane saved the Empire I am supportive of this.

 

sadly still waiting for my subscription copy of the latest Insider magazine. better have it by the time i go back to work on tuesday!

 

I think we UK subscribers get ours around 2 weeks after the US release.

 

I had better get it soon, first time in my life ive subscribed to a magazine, so naturally suspicious about delivery. saying that i never actually saw the last edition of insider in the normal outlets. the insider webpage is also woefully out of date too, which doesnt help my concerns

 

WH Smiths usually has it here in the UK. That's where I'd look if I wasn't a subscriber. They do sell out of it though.

 

The best short story in the NEU so far, although every single one has been excellent so far. Reaching and surpassing the heights of the Adventure Journal short fiction!