Books Master and Apprentice, a Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan novel by Claudia Gray

Man, I still have soooo many young readers to collect. They're the bane of my collecting existance - Young Jedi Knights, Junior Jedi Knights, Jedi Apprentice, Jedi Quest, Galaxy of Fear, Rebel Force, Servants of the Empire, etc.... Quite a bit to track down!

 

Galaxy of Fear will be hard. I went through getting those and had to resort to eBay in the end to get the last few books. There are two or three that are real hard to find. The YJK books came out in omnibuses (omnibi?) as well. You should be able to find either the separate books or omnibus editions on Amazon (though you might have to resort to the Marketplace). Servants of the Empire should be available on Amazon as they are newer.

 

You might also want to check library book sales. I feel like YJK in particular were widely purchased in the 90s. I tend to still see a lot of them just browsing old book sales.

 

I've seen the YJK books in the YA section of Forbidden Planet (London) as well. So if you have a specialist SF store near you that's another place to try.

 

I encountered a couple of Galaxy of Fear books recently at a local Amvets here in the USA. Make sure to check out the used book sections of thrift stores as you fill out your collection - they can be a gold mine.

 

I used a couple of book search websites when I was looking.

 

Very good info gentleman. I do find a book or two out on my adventures, though not too often. I think I need to check more online

One though, that I have never been able to find a single one of out in the wild though, is the Star Wars Missions books. Not sure of their avalabililty online, but a couple of Star Wars collectors in my area said they can be an absolute pain to find.

 

Never heard of them. I'll check them out! I'm always looking for more online resources. Is it ebooks or hardcopy?

 

I really hope Claudia Gray did a little research and possibly read some segments of the Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson. Watson nails both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan perfectly and all her books for the most part contained interesting plots.

I actually hope this book doesn’t explore Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan’s year of protecting Satine. I find that to be a recipe for a boring, unimportant story. Tackle something new and original. However I have a bad feeling it’s going to be Satine. They have no reason not to do that but I find that subject to be boring. NeuCanon is obsessed with filling in the blanks of EVERYTHING. Every side quest; every mention; every origin. And if it is original content without any provocation, the story is usually some “busy work” Adventure that has no meaning or flavor. Rise of the Empire had 3 short stories that totally embody this. One had Hera pick up supplies and another had Tarkin meet Vidian. Those stories were tedious to read and really didn’t need to exist. The old EU thought outside the box and while the universe’s time periods were grossly different (some having super advanced tech and then 1000 years later not) but for the most part everything seemed to matter and not be overly connected to things we already know.

 

For UK posters, Wordery now have this up for pre-buy - it's a good price too, but they often do buy 2, get 10% weekend special offers, so hold fire until then, then bag it even cheaper.

 

YJK were tough to track down, took me a while to get some. Some I think I bought and still haven't read.. I actually really enjoyed them though, very under-rated.

 

Bruh.

You can't say "Everything in Legends mattered" with a straight face.

There are, demonstrably, quite a few things that did not matter.

 

I guess the Holiday Special for starters even though it introduced Life Day.....

 

Yeah, like, that was literally the whole point of "tiered canon". (Or to paraphrase Animal Farm, "Some canon is more canon than others.")

I also have to laugh about the idea that it wasn't "overly connected to things we already know". How many "bounty hunter we ran into on Ord Mantell" stories were there again?

 

Still it was better. Hera brushes her teeth and we get a story about it.

 

Ton of stuff. Off the top of my head, a bunch of stories in Tales with characters we didn't know in situations we didn't care about doing things that were never referenced again. Incident at Horn Station is a great example of this. You never hear from the protagonist again, he's never again referenced in another story, and the events end up virtually meaningless. This is in stark contrast to stories like Sand Blasted, which tell contained stories that actually build off of existing characters and events. If someone's played Dark Force or partaken in a facet of the Shadows of the Empire project, they already have a foothold in the comic. It tells a fun story that actually has some weight behind it with characters we either know already or can become familiar with later on.

 

I don’t know how you can type this with a straight face.

 

Agreed. But, can't the same be said about the new EU as well? The movies and TV shows are effectively more canon than the Adventures comics and the Join the Resistance books for example.

 

Sure, though I think there's a stark difference between (what appears to be) a miscommunication between two of Lucasfilm's partners working at the same time about the marriage of a tertiary character to an off-screen character, and like, ignoring and overwriting Marvel Star Wars for the entire Bantam era (the copies I had of those stories in the '90s explicitly warned the kids reading them for the first time that they were not considered canon by post-Zahn editors).

 

Fine. The Old EU is too hard to definitively analyze. NeuCanon is much smaller and since everything is coming out in my time, what I said is true, from a certain point of view......

 

Son, let me tell you the story of Davin Felth, the stormtrooper who got a backstory to explain why the stormtrooper captain that gets shot in Docking Bay 94 appears to fall forward instead of backwards...

 

Remember when Han and Leia got married twice? Once in the Ken Palpatine books...