Best "Technical" SW novels

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2006-08-08 03:09pm

I've read a number of SW novels, but I'm curious as to which ones are generally considered to be the best from a 'technical perspective' (something like good portrayals of combat, and the like). What are some recommends?

Post by **NecronLord** » 2006-08-08 03:11pm

There's a lot of good things in the ANH novellisation, actually.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2006-08-08 03:22pm

The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy had the best battles, I thought.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2006-08-08 03:45pm

Galvatron wrote:The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy had the best battles, I thought.

Those battles pale in comparisson to the later NJO Fleet actions. Star by Star, Destinys Way, Rebel Stand and Rebel Dream stand out in perticular. In BFC 200 ships make a fleet, which is cool, but in the NJO they had 1000's of ships in each fleet.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2006-08-08 04:46pm

The difference is the BFC fleet actions make it look like the NR runs an actual Navy that understands concepts like concetrated firepower, missile defense, passive sensing, and proper combat operations centers. Basically while NJO had some big fleet actions the ones in BFC were more technically satisfying.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-08-08 05:33pm

NecronLord wrote:There's a lot of good things in the ANH novellisation, actually.

While I agree that the ANH novelisation is a great read in both story and technical regard, I'd also say that the universe it presents has an overall different "feel" compared to that within the films and EU.