Lit Books The Essential Legends Collection Trade Paperbacks Series

Don't get me wrong I would love for shadows to get a re-release and an audiobook. But I don't think it's likely since Luke has other stories and quality doesn't seem to be the main factor in picking these books.

 

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Fate of the Jedi

Jedi Prince

and other outta print books


if we take Jordan Maison hinting that Dawn Of The Jedi: Into The Void may be in Wave 6

which would probably tie into taika's movie if the tho yor in its concept art is still valid

 

Bought the Unabridged Darth Maul Shadow Hunter audiobook.

 

Apparently the next Essential Legends have been leaked.



happy to see we are finally hitting the republic commando series!

 

Into the void is interesting.

Yoda getting an unabridged audio book is great.

 

Two more unabridged audiobooks for us! Republic Commando and Dark Rendezvous! Life is good these days!

I actually have both of those books in hardcover, so the audiobook is very timely!

Between Ahsoka, Mando Season Three, Jedi: Survivor, Spider-Man 2 and the next wave of the Essential Legends Collection, 2023 is looking very promising indeed.

 

This lineup makes it seem like the Wraith books won't be included, or at least not yet. I wonder how long they're intending for this imprint to run.

 

Kind of surprised Into the Void is being added to the list as that was a book that came out pretty late in legends run when a lot of folks were getting a little burned out on legends and is a single book that takes place about 15 to 20,000 years before anything else.

 

It’s funny that it’s on the list, because I just ordered the original hardcover from Thriftbooks this week. It’s one of the last missing pieces from my perfect Legends Collection. Once it gets here, it’ll sit right next to my Dawn of the Jedi comics.

Which are apparently worth a lot more than I thought now. It’s so interesting how all these old books are suddenly worth so much now that they’re not being printed anymore.

 

I find this all to be so fascinating, as someone who only recently began to collect such things. The SFBC books are even harder to find, especially those that were released late in the run, like Into the Void.

Scourge, The Last Jedi and Shadow Games hardcovers are impossible to find. They all had a very limited run and despite my best efforts, I haven’t found any copies. It took me seven months of searching to find an affordable copy of the Coruscant Nights trilogy. Collecting is a very enjoyable hobby but it can be an expensive one at times.

 

To me, it’s not about the money or the rarity. It’s about what those stories mean to me. For me, Star Wars was a great comfort to me over the years. It’s my passion and my refuge and my treasure. The Expanded Universe was Star Wars to me, even more then the films were. Those books were there for me when I had nothing else. Reading them kept me going when I was ready to give up. At a time when I had almost no friends and was desperately alone, my books kept me company and entertained. In a way, each of those old books are like an old friend to me.

I’ve spent thousands in the past two years assembling my collection of Legends Hardcovers. I don’t mind the appellation at all, but I still think of my books as part of the EU. I have very few hobbies in life, very few treasures and cherished possessions. I’m not into cars or sports or jewelry or a dozen other expensive things that many people collect. To me, these books are my treasures and they mean something more to me than their value on the collector’s market or even the stories they tell.

I guess I really am like Jocasta Nu, in more ways than one.

 

And Star Wars was something unique in that it attempted to (and was popular enough to accomplish) tell one cohesive story that was basically an entire universe outside of the movies. I got into reading Walking Dead novels but that fizzled out and they havn't released a TWD book for about three years now. And I havn't even finished the latest one.

 

The interconnectivity of the universe is what makes it special for me as well. When I look at my bookshelf I can see the timeline for a galaxy far far away. From the New Sith Wars to the Clone Wars to the Galactic Civil War to the Yuuzhan Vong War to the Sith Imperial War. When Jacen Solo talks about not wanting to be a Jedi in the Dark Tide Duology, I think of the Sith Lord he’ll become over a decade later.

The Expanded Universe is my safe place and it makes very happy to see that it’s still continuing on in the form of this Essential Legends Collection.

 

Hope they put Talisibeth on the cover!!!

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I would strongly recommend - if you haven't already - looking into the world of used bookstores. The ones around my area always have a ton of SW Expanded Universe novels, softback and hardback. (Although my prize will always be the original edition of The Dune Encyclopedia)

 

I definitely have! I found many of my treasures there. A lot of the seeds for my collection came from the used bookstores in my area. Amazon, eBay and Thriftbooks helped me fill in the gaps. Now the collection is nearly complete and I spend my days curating it carefully and adding a few rare items to it. I actually find that Facebook Marketplace is also an excellent source of rare books. I recently found a fellow fan who was selling their entire collection.

I netted the entire SFBC NJO collection as well as the entire Young Jedi Knights series in three hardcover omnibuses. I really enjoy the collecting and hunting aspect of this. The feeling when I find a rare book that I don’t have yet is very gratifying.

 

Well the Dawn of the Jedi comics were reprinted in the epic collections.

 

In addition, I think standalone is a feature and not a bug with a lot of these choices.

A little disappointed they're not rolling straight into the Wraith Squadron books (if ever), I was hoping to eventually have all the X-Wing series on audio.

 

Can anyone confirm if the Shadow Hunter reprint includes Saboteur or Restraint? There’s mixed precedent so far with the Essential Legends HttE omitting its short story from the 20th anniversary version but Shatterpoint still including Equipment.

 

If it has both of those, I’ll actually buy it. I already have the original hardcover so I didn’t think of getting it.

 

I’m still waiting, perhaps with some level of futility, for Outbound Flight and the Jedi Academy trilogy to make it into one of these waves.