Lit Books FACPOV ROTJ 2023 - Released!

I'd read FACPOV: Hoth and Friends

 

One more batch: "Legacy, Audacity & Perpetual Motion Machines" — And tackling the final 14 stories

 

Darth SpeedyHen has been....remiss.

 

Meanwhile, Darth Amazon has told me I'm not getting it until Thursday

 

Darth Amazon is slacking off, as you're US-based with 29 Aug, right?

I have the 5 Sept one.

 

From a certain point of view, the speedy hen turn a wrong turn along the Amazon.

 

I am.

Isn't that what pre-orders are for? Heh

I'm not terribly upset (this time around), it's just frustrating how asinine things are

 

So it's out. Who has it? I might have it tomorrow but not certain?

I want Endor space battle spoilers ASAP.

 

Sep 5 here - it's on my next list for Darth Amazon UK..

 

I just read Brotherhood. Tears. Such a great look at Anakin's ascent.

 

Finally got around to reading the behind-the-curtain stuff and I gotta add to this that I'd read "Oops All Ewoks" as well.

 

I have it. Still need to finish Empire FAVPOV. Buuuuut..I started it anyway. Love the opening theme in the audiobooks. And got sucked in a bit.

Good stuff, as we've come to expect with this series.

 

I'm stuck waiting till about the 12th for it. So if anyone has spoilers, please please PLEASE, I want to have it. The Wook is busy with other things.

 

The insights were really interesting, the stats piece left me wondering how many FACPOV authors were first time versus returning to SW, and how many have since done further work for the brand.

 

I can give you those numbers.

Of the 108 unique authors: 71, or about 66% had never written any SW content ever, and were debuting. That number is actually a bit over 70% if you include folks making their SW prose fiction debut (which would include folks like Charles Soule, Kieron Gillen, Kristin Baver, Phil Szostak, etc who have all done SW comics/nonfiction) but to keep things easier I just looked at straight debuts, as of the time of their story.

As for future work, the current answer is 10 of those 71 or about 14%, again that number is a bit higher if you include folks like Soule in the "prose fiction" category. But really we should just look at the debut authors from FACPOVS 1 and 2, since ROTJ is just days old. And doing that, raises the % to around 22%, so just over 1 in 5 have already gone on to make other contributions.

 

Darth SpeedyHen has redeemed their self. Copy despatched.

 

I'm almost halfway through and despite feeling that some of the stories are subpar (one barely registers a 1/5 stars to me), I also feel that the majority are even better than half the stories in the first two installations. I've already given 3 of the 17 stories I've read 5 stars (4 of 18 if you count the Whills because I read that one first hahahaha), which is already more than I gave in the others. Some surprises on what I have low ratings and high ratings on, but so far, this is exceeding my expectations

 

I know, a double-post but...
I finished. I spoke a bit too soon last night, because the back half had more duds than the first half. OTOH, I gave six stories a 5-star rating, including both the longest stories. That's more (or equal to) the other two books combined, none of which I think were the longest stories in those books.
Overall, 3.6875/5 stars. Even if goodreads & Amazon had half-star ratings, this would merit the full 4 stars. Good end to the trilogy of anthologies!

 

Jason Fry, that absolute madman, does it again!

Spoiler

We finally have identities for the other half of the Ruling Council on the DSII. Tall Hat is Dangor. Red Robe is Pestage. And Purple Robe, whose very existence this board sought to prove, is a new character, Pebimarus Xorn!

 

Copy arrived yesterday. These books have excellent design aesthetics and this is no different.

Only problem is I probably should read the ESB volume first....

 

Ordered mine today (with a few other items) from Amazon UK. Should come Friday.

 

The stories are very good. But not the same "magic" for me as the 1st one.