The Clone Wars!

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » 2002-11-20 12:26pm

Check it out Lucasbooks is doing a novel series on the Clone Wars.

http://starwars.com/eu/news/2002/11/news20021115.html

For 25 years, Star Wars fans have wondered about the Clone Wars. With the release of Episode II, audiences witnessed the events that started that epic conflict, and now want to know what happens next.

Starting next year, LucasBooks is chronicling these historic events through a publishing program that covers the span of the Clone Wars. Through comics, adult novels, middle grade fiction, audio books, short stories and more, the story of the Clone Wars will unfold.

Clone War titles will be identified on the cover (for example, "A Clone Wars Novel"), marking it as one piece in a much larger puzzle. Some stories will describe the victories, losses and stalemates of the epic war. Others will use the Clone Wars as a dramatic backdrop to tell different types of tales. The publishing program will give fans a clearer picture of what has transpired between Episodes II and III in time for the next Star Wars film in 2005.

The ongoing Star Wars: Republic series from Dark Horse Comics will focus its attention on the Clone Wars, starting with the double-sized issue #50. Dark Horse will also release Star Wars: Jedi next year, four one-shots detailing the heroic efforts of key Jedi Knights during the war.

Del Rey Books will begin its Clone War coverage with Star Wars: Shatterpoint, a hardcover novel featuring Mace Windu by Matthew Stover due out in 2003. More Clone War novels and audio books are planned in both paperback and hardcover to be released over the next few years. Just announced is author William Dietz, who will be writing a stand-alone Clone War paperback novel due out in 2004.

Scheduled for June 2004 is The Cestus Deception, a Clone Wars hardcover novel by author Steven Barnes, published by Del Rey Books. The book will feature Obi-Wan Kenobi and Kit Fisto uncovering a deadly new type of bio-battle droid being built on the foundries of Ord Cestus.

William Dietz, author of the Dark Forces novellas, returns to Star Wars with Escape from Dagu. In the paperback novel, due out March 2004 from Del Rey Books, the Jedi Shaak Ti attempts to liberate Republic prisoners of war caught behind Separatist lines.

Scholastic Inc. will continue to explore Boba Fett's youth in its series of middle grade books. Already, the first two hardcover books of the series take place in the days after the Battle of Geonosis. These two books (The Fight to Survive and Crossfire) will be released in paperback as part of the Clone Wars series, and will continue with the third book, Maze of Deception by Elizabeth Hand.

The Star Wars Insider will not only carry original short fiction tied into the various Clone War titles, but will also see the return of HoloNet News, now as a printed edition, which includes the official news the Republic and Separatist governments want you to read.

LucasArts Entertainment Company has already chronicled the earliest events of the war with their recently released Star Wars: The Clone Wars video game. Starting with the Battle of Geonosis, this game moves to other battlefields on distant worlds. Future titles are in the works with more Clone War action.

And this is only the beginning. These original and epic tales will not only tell of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Count Dooku, but also introduce new heroes, villains, locations and technology that played pivotal roles in the Clone Wars.

Keep checking starwars.com for more developments in this exciting new program.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-20 12:31pm

I don't know whether to be excited or horrified. After NJO and the prequel books I've given up on the EU. Too muc crap and too few gems.

And this is going to fuck over continuity badly, mark my words.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2002-11-20 12:57pm

Stormbringer wrote:I don't know whether to be excited or horrified. After NJO and the prequel books I've given up on the EU. Too muc crap and too few gems.

And this is going to fuck over continuity badly, mark my words.

Hey now, Stackpole and Allston did a good job with the NJO series.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-20 01:01pm

Alyeska wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:I don't know whether to be excited or horrified. After NJO and the prequel books I've given up on the EU. Too muc crap and too few gems.

And this is going to fuck over continuity badly, mark my words.
Hey now, Stackpole and Allston did a good job with the NJO series.

They did I a good job with what they have. I still don't like the NJO books, I hate the Vong. They're bad books, they just did a good job with what they had.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-20 01:18pm

Polish shit and you get polished shit. NJO case in point.

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-11-21 12:09am

How about a documentary account?

As in ... Liddel Hart's account of the Clone Wars

(If you don't know who Liddel Hart is ... find out.)

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-21 12:12am

Vympel wrote:How about a documentary account?

As in ... Liddel Hart's account of the Clone Wars

(If you don't know who Liddel Hart is ... find out.)

Nah, Ernie Pyle account. I like his writing style, and his was a tragic death.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-11-21 10:33pm

It would be cool if they showed the Clone Wars through many different perspectives and not just Jedi. Like from the perspective of the Republic leaders, the Separatist leaders, the Republic clones, the Jedi, the Separatist soldiers, the civilians caught in the war, etc. Then we could truly see how the war devastated the galaxy and paved the way for rise of the Empire.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-21 11:23pm

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:It would be cool if they showed the Clone Wars through many different perspectives and not just Jedi. Like from the perspective of the Republic leaders, the Separatist leaders, the Republic clones, the Jedi, the Separatist soldiers, the civilians caught in the war, etc. Then we could truly see how the war devastated the galaxy and paved the way for rise of the Empire.

I'd like to see that done by a competent author. Who is authors these new books anyway?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2002-11-22 11:30am

For once, I hope they make it consistent with the EU.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » 2002-11-22 09:23pm

Stormbringer, checkout the quote in my opening post, it lists the authors names. I also believe that Stackpole and Allston are on tap to write as well.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2002-11-23 08:45am

Stormbringer wrote:I don't know whether to be excited or horrified. After NJO and the prequel books I've given up on the EU. Too muc crap and too few gems.

And this is going to fuck over continuity badly, mark my words.

Lucas is going to be heavily supervising this. New Jedi Order was the closest to entirely-non-Lucas major EU project yet. Even Bantam's New Republic-era line was more supervised. This will have GL's eye all over it due to Ep. III.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2002-11-23 08:45am

Zahn's been tapped to write a prequel-era duology as well.