Let us know how you get on with it! The ending is the weakest part, but the rest is worthwhile.
I just hope Zahns getting paid for the books still.
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The three Zahn Star Wars novels aren’t great, but I’ll never forget the joy I felt when the NYT book review announced new Star Wars back then. Being the correct age makes a difference.
For my money, the three Lando Calrissian novels are what I like to re-read.
My latest new read has been Love’s Executioner. A cheerful set of ten anecdotes from psychotherapy broadly offering insight on relating to other people and confronting mortality.
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Since he is still writing novels for them, I’m sure he is. Much easier to ensure youbare getting your royalties when you are still under contract.
I’ll try, but don’t hold your breath. It’s going to be a while.
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Have you got a link please?
Here you are. As always the calibration for this is I read these as a young Star Wars fan.
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They are very slow books but I enjoyed reading Hyperion and its sequel (forgot the name though) a lot. But I read them like 15 years ago…
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I think I liked Brian Daley’s Han Solo Adventures more, but the Lando books were definitely enjoyable.
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I like those too but I read the Lando ones first.
Brian Daley did a lot of good work in a lot of places. Especially on the Galaxy Rangers cartoon.
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Re: Dan Simmons, and Hyperion, I remember reading the first book and liking it, couldnt get thru the others in the series (from memory).
His other novels are amazing tho, Carrion Comfort and The Terror (which became a tv series).
I’m now re-reading Han Solo and the Lost Legacy because the notes I started assembling for a zoom Star Wars edge of empire game inexorably led to Xim the Despot.
You have contributed to the circle of life.
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Just read Harrow the Ninth in 3 days, doing the last 300+ pages in one sitting. Absolutely loved it and desperately wish I could read the next book immediately.
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C and I went to the Lawrence public library for the first time, partly to donate books (having bought the Virginia Edition, we had surplus Heinlein books), but while we were there, we looked over their shelves. I came home with three novels I hadn’t read before, and Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Lions of al-Rassan, which I’m rereading.
I’d forgotten how good a book it was! It has unexpected turns of plot and characters with sharply defined motives, somewhat like Ayn Rand’s two major novels, but without the long speeches. And where Rand’s characters tend to be Hollywood portrayals of highly intelligent people, Kay’s actually are highly intelligent people. It’s a delight to read this, to the point where I had to stop every few chapters and let my brain process it . . .
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So I finished off Hyperion a couple of weeks ago, and I found it distinctly ‘meh’. The middle few stories got me through it but I really don’t see what the fuss is about at all. There’s not a chance of me continuing on with the sequel, despite people saying it’s more of a standard structure. But hey, we don’t all have to like the same books, and life’s too short to bother reading something that doesn’t grab you.
Since then I’ve read Eon by Greg Bear which has some really interesting ideas in it although a few of the concepts I had to stop and re-read to try and get them into my head!
I then read Jurassic Park for the first time ever which was very enjoyable and a lot better than the film (I re-watched it just to compare them).
After that was the Alastair Reynolds novella Slow Bullets and it has me really looking forward to reading more from him. I’ve got House of Suns on my TBR and then will probably read the Revelation Space series later next spring.
However the book I just finished last night was 11.22.63 by Stephen King which other than the Dark Tower series is probably only the 2nd or 3rd other book of his that I’ve read. I absolutely loved it, and was really taken with everything about it, the premise, the characters and of course the writing. I was hooked from the start and found myself sneaking a few pages here and there when I should have been doing other important things!
Next up I’m going to have a read of Redshirts by John Scalzi, and then Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, just because my local library got a copy of each in for me, so that jumps them up the list a bit!
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Jurassic Park is definitely on my “to read” list. I’ve heard so many people praising it I have to give it a go. Shame that the list goes down so slowly these days.
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+1 for Jurassic park
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Yeah, I couldn’t finish Hyperion.
Greg Bear’s Blood Music is incredible, and I enjoyed Inifinity Concerto / Serpent Mage, can’t remember if I read Eon.
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Well, I was reading Starless Night by R.A. Salvatore, but my kid started tapping on my e-reader then I was rinsing out a bowl and managed to delete it. I have the epub file, but my USB to Mini-B cable is at work, so I won’t be able to put it back on my e-reader until tomorrow.
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Ooh, don’t think I have those Greg Bear novels on my list, will give them a look for sure 