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For anyone who's paying attention to the Clone Wars novels (I'm not; I'm just posting this because I know other people will be interested), you'll recall that Escape From Dagu, which was supposed to come out next month, got cut.

It has instead been replaced by an as-of-yet-untitled tpb that is coming out in December. Here is the synopsis:

A battle-scarred Jedi returns from the frontlines with a surprising message for the Jedi Council -- Count Dooku wants to sue for peace. Dispatched to find out the truth behind this new development is the greatest Master of the Jedi order, Yoda.

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This comes from: http://starwars.com/eu/news/2004/02/news20040204.html

Let the Yoda de-characterization begin.



Just my opinion. Don't mind me.

Suck that has got to. Yoda in small amounts, good is.. Hearing him talk that way the entire book bad would be.

Yes. Agree with you I do. Highly annoying that would be.

Messa not be likin' this.

Wait, wrong speech impediment...

Drooling Iguana wrote:Messa not be likin' this.

Wait, wrong speech impediment...

Well at least there isn't a CW novel dedicated to Jar Jar...

Yet...

Drooling Iguana wrote:Yet...

Here are the upcoming ones that I'm aware of and what their plots are:

The Cestus Deception (June 2004) - Award-winning author Steven Barnes explores the Clone Wars with the upcoming hardcover novel The Cestus Deception, published by Del Rey Books. The novel, scheduled for release in June 2004, features Obi-Wan Kenobi and Kit Fisto uncovering a deadly new type of bio-battle droid being built on the foundries of Ord Cestus.

Medstar I: Battle Surgeons (July 2004) - The Clone Wars that swept across the galaxy in the twilight years of the Republic engulfed more than Jedi Knights, clone troopers and droid soldiers. On the fierce battlefields of Drongar, a tiny med unit tends to those wounded from the ceaseless combat waged on the jungle world for control of a priceless native plant. In the pages of this forthcoming Clone Wars novel, readers will meet a surgeon that cloaks his despair with sardonic wit; another who weathers the death and misery of Drongar by making beautiful music; a compassionate nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor; and a Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master.

Medstar II: Healer (October 2004) - The second book in the Medstar Duology chronicling the events of the Clone Wars. It is two years after the Battle of Geonosis and extended ground fighting persists on the planet Drongar. The planet is the source of bota, an important plant used for pharmaceutical purposes. The story focuses on a Republic medical team along with Jedi healer, Barriss Offee.

Jedi Trial (November 2004) - LucasBooks will fill in the years between Episodes II and III through a series of novels telling tales of the Clone Wars, a conflict that will in some way change the lives of all the Jedi. In Jedi Trial, a 2004 hardcover novel, readers will learn of an important development that Anakin Skywalker faces in a major battle of the war. The Sluis sector has become a crucial battleground for control of a vital communications center. The forces of Freedom's Sons fight under the flag of the Republic, but they need clone trooper and Jedi reinforcement to hold their ground. Young Padawan Anakin Skywalker is dispatched to Praesitlyn, accompanied by an older Jedi Knight that is almost as headstrong and reckless as he. Jedi Trial, written by David Sherman and Dan Cragg, is scheduled for release in hardcover in November of 2004 from Del Rey Books.

(Around February 2005 is an untitled hardback by James Lucenco that bridges Eps II and III)

And that's all I know of.

They're remaking M*A*S*H as a Star Wars novel?

Drooling Iguana wrote:They're remaking M*A*S*H as a Star Wars novel?

As far as I can tell, yes? ST's M*A*S*H* counterpart can be considered the S.C.E. e-books.

Prequel triology books would be nice since it would shed light on the Republic and answer a lot of questions.

Ugh. 'Bio-Battledroids'! Look out, it's the invasion of biotechnology brainbug bullshit into the prequels, not just the NJO!

Clonetroopers are biobattledroids from a certain point of view.

They could just be droids which spew out bio gunk which kills people.....