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The Shadow War Chronicles
April 01, 2006

The Star Wars universe expands into new territory with the recent announcement of the reprinting of The Shadow War Chronicles by George Lucas and Chris Claremont under the Star Wars banner. The omnibus edition of the trilogy is now revealed to take place on the Force-imbued world of Andowyne, a planet deep in the Kathol Rift and possible home planet of the midi-chlorian life form.

Knowledge of the world was lost for eons, but intrepid scholars rediscover its power in the depths of the Jedi archives. The novel series unfolds as a fantastical new chapter in the Star Wars universe. To bring readers up to speed on some of the backstory, here is a databank update on the major characters and events that shaped the world of Andowyne, which will be consumed by the Shadow War.

Knife wrote:Oh god?!?!



Another lost world? Another look into the mechinism of the Force? Bah!

Srynerson wrote:My favorite April Fool's SW.com was back in 2003 when they loaded the putative 1983 SW.com page in celebration of the upcoming 20th anniversary of RotJ. (It was in green-on-black with ASCII art, natch!)

Today Lucasfilm announced the licensing of a new line of "Adult" Star Wars novels.

"While the movies were still an ongoing project, it was important to portray all aspects of the Star Wars universe as wholesome family entertainment," said Lucasfilm spokesmen Dirk Merdespieler. "However, now that the cycle of films is done, we can finally broaden the Star Wars franchise into marketing niches we'd heretofore avoided, and adult entertainment is at the top of our list."

One of the first new licenses was awarded to longtime Star Wars novel publisher Del Rey Books, who will be putting out a line of Star Wars adult novels. Del Rey announced that the first book in the line would be Slave Girl of Tattoine by Barry Malzberg and Mike Resnick.

"Yeah, Barry and I had an old porn novel called Arab Slave Harem we'd never managed to sell, and it was pretty easy to alter so it fit in the Star Wars universe," said Resnick when the two authors were reached for comment.

In the background, Malzberg could be heard laughing maniacally as he typed away at the updated manuscript.

"Instead of an Arab slave caravan, she gets captured by the Sand People and sold to Jabba the Hutt."

"Hahaha! Banthas!" exclaimed Malzberg.

"Anyway, after some 200 pages she gets rescued by a young Luke Skywalker. All in all, its probably the easiest $50,000 Barry and I ever made."

Del Rey's publicist indicated that they were willing to look beyond traditional adult themes, and were willing to pay top dollar for works to fill what were previously considered niche markets. As proof, she cited the hiring of Pulitzer Prize winner E. Annie Proulx to pen Brokeback Falcon, a novel which explores the forbidden love between Han Solo and Chewbacca.

"The Star Wars universe is almost 30 years old," said Merdespieler. "It's high time our fans learned there's more to life than comic books and action figures."

MRDOD wrote:You people lose- the best one would obviously be ANH-era Luke/Leia slash.

Say it with me.

Ew.

Mange the Swede wrote:

Srynerson wrote:My favorite April Fool's SW.com was back in 2003 when they loaded the putative 1983 SW.com page in celebration of the upcoming 20th anniversary of RotJ. (It was in green-on-black with ASCII art, natch!)

They did that for ROTJ also? I remember that they one year did the same for TESB (putting the year as 1979).

"It's high time our fans learned there's more to life than comic books and action figures."