Lit Sword of the Jedi by Christie Golden

Zorkel567 Thanks for the answer, makes sense now. I suppose there is some hope for this series if they do make post FOTJ books. I really want to see the future of Allana, as you guys all know I love her character! I really hope she appears again. She has a lot of potential as one of the future Jedi. I also want to see her relationship grow with her cousin Ben. *fingers crossed*.

 

There won't be new Legend books. All the old books will be under the Legend label.

 

Allana doesn't exist any longer. Allana is non-canon. Mara Jade is non-canon. Han and Leia being married, having three children and having grandchildren is non-canon.

We don't know if there is even a point for Sword of the Jedi because we don't know if any of the relevant plot points leading to it exist.

But, it of course is not being confirmed one way or the other because... who knows?

 

While its sad to see this axed. I am not sure this would have been a stellar knockout of books based on her FOTJ stuff....

 

So who came up with the idea of the NJO as a legend?
Pretty dark legend eh?

 

Technically Allana never existed. Unless canon is magic beans or something iunno

 

I'm really sad we aren't going to see this. I really wanted to see Jaina get her own series, leading into the Felpire & Legacy. Perhaps more than anything else I was looking forward to this.

 

Are we 100% sure this is cancelled? They never explicitly said that SOTJ would be cancelled, unless I missed something.

 

Perhaps more than anything else, I was looking forward to this getting cancelled.

... Sorry. I couldn't resist one last dig at Golden. Her FOTJ books really were that stunningly terrible. But with the recent announcement, hopefully this will be my last opportunity to make an SOTJ-related dig at her again.

 

I don't suppose these were ever finished to a readable level? If so, are they likely to ever see the light of day?

Spoiler

In before any 'nothing Golden produces is of a readable level' jokes.

 

Going from past experiences, I don't think we'll see any part of these books if there are canceled, even if they're near complete. Del Rey/Lucasbooks have canceled completed books before (Escape from Dagu, Jedi Storm) and they've never seen any sort of release.

 

Maybe they'll recycle the title? It's kind of good.

 

I don't think we'll ever see this particular book released, but do firmly believe that, at some point, we will see new stories published that fit in with the 'old' ("Legends") continuity because there are a number of different reasons why it would be foolish of Lucasfilm not to use tie-in works for the actual purpose for which they're intended (perpetuating and extending the brand), and there are a number of opportunities for stories to be told that don't have to fit into the new cohesive Canon of the property going forward.

 

They could have tossed us a bone and gave us a few wrap up novels for the EU....

sigh

 

I agree with this. It would have been nice for some, big, final novel set in the Legends-verse. Slap the Legends tag on it and everything's good to go.

 

On second thoughts, Jaina would have probably just died or killed Ben or something anyway.

 

I really want to see Sword of the Jedi still get released under this newly christened the Legends banner. Even if its the last thing we get in this canon just to wrap things up and give us some closure to the EU.
I mean by all accounts these books are finished and in the can right?
And they're bound to get on the NYT bestsellers list so why not release them under Legends banner. It's leaving money on the table if they don't.

 

This is what I was looking forward to: a proper conclusion or set-up for the next series of adventures with Jaina, Ben, Allana, etc..

But now that's not going to happen. Since Disney has chosen, for the most part, to disregard post ROTJ EU material, then why would Del Rey publish any new novels in the post-FOTJ Era? It directly contradicts their upcoming plans for the material that is to be 'cannon'.

It seems like the 'Legends' tag is going to be printed on all currently published EU novels that are still being sold, but will not apply to future novels, like the Sword of the Jedi series. Which is a major bummer because I was really looking forward to Jaina finally getting her own series.

I don't know what Episodes 7-9 hold, but I'm not sure how much I care at this point. Disney has just wiped out a major community built from the past 35 years of written material, which included some of my favorite novels (i.e. Thrawn Trilogy). It's a bit hard to be optimistic at this point.

 

You're far from the only person who feels this way.

For every fan I've seen cheering the "fresh start", I've seen one who has little to no interest in further fandom (and several who are selling off their collections and moving on).

If the ST is a blazing success, it doesn't matter. But even if its a blockbuster in theaters, but doesn't bring in new out-of-theater fans, then they may have shot themselves in the foot with the hardcore fandom. Time will tell.

 

https://www.goodreads.com/series/102874-sword-of-the-jedi

Does anyone here have a Goodreads.com account --- if you do can you really access the Sword of the Jedi Series from here????

 

Um... no. It says right on the page that they've been cancelled. Besides, Goodreads is just a book review/rating site, they don't host full books unless they're public domain. So, yeah.

 

I completely agree with you on this and its something that we have to live with and hope that the rest turns out good.

 

If anyone is interested I found out that this Triology had not yet been written and that the editors have not given the final axe on this Triology. Things are in a state of flux --- like a sandstorm on Tatooine. Christie says when she knows more and can talk about it - she will update info to her twitter account.

 

Well, it would be nice if they let her finish off this trilogy and Kemp do that "amazing" dulogy they kept teasing to wrap up the lose end plot points and send the Legends continuity on its way with some actual closure.

But I doubt that there's a chance in any of the Nine Corellian Hells of that happening.