We can only hope to know...but for some reason I don't think we will be getting confirmation until at least around the time of MF's release.
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Late October? Perhaps, but I would frankly expect more leaks about FotJ before then - whether this rumour is correct or not - in the manner of the
Traviss&Miller Clone Wars -series. It has been revealed through catalogs etc without any official confirmation about it by DR&LFL. These things are
hard to keep in secret.
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Late October? Perhaps, but I would frankly except more leaks about FotJ before then - whether this rumour is correct or notOh, I definately agree.I just don't think we'll get any official word until then. Daala Count- 20 and counting and Hapans Rule All!
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Someone on the Rebelscum boards is claiming that the info on the authors came from a German website. I haven't been able to find it yet, but I will keep
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I too will look because I really want to know if this is true. I will be surprised but not angry that they chose to do another 9 book series after the fan's reactions to it. Daala Count- 20 and counting and Hapans Rule All!
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Posts: 2099 07/21/08 6:11 PM |
This series must have been planned far before the bitter complaints of fans especially about Invincible, but about Revelation too. I personally think that the
fact that FotJ was probably already in advanced stage of planning was the reason why Rostoni said that they had to kill Jacen in Invincible. I wouldn't be
surprised if DR and LFL wouldn't have come to a basic agreement about FotJ during their contract negotiations sometime last year.
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Well, hopefully this series (If it is a series) flows better than LOTF, though I still enjoyed it.
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Yes. Better intra-book continuity, better characterisation in terms of from one author to the next, more logical endings and ones that don't pee all over
characters that have been with us for a long time.
In short, the anti-LOTF (more specifically, the final two books of the series). And pehaps - though this could just be me - storylines that don't drop one character for another just because of author/character preferences. If Allston can use Syal Antilles, then so can the other two. If Denning uses Tesar, so can the other two. That way, it isn't disjointed and perhaps other authors could make an impression on other authors' characters. And it could mean that, for example, if I don't like author A's interpretation of Character V, then I may enjoy Author C's take on Character V. |
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Fate of the Jedi...
cuz Mandos are wipin' up. 
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I wouldn't mind having another Sith Lord show up randomly in this series- just one that isn't whiny and arrogant and crazy.
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Allston certainly set up the possibility of using the Sith woman Dician again, Traviss set up the Mando/Daala vs Jedi possibility, and Denning certainly left open Zekk's fate (I hate to say it, but it's become kind of a thing with him - first Raynar, then Jag, now Zekk). And those are just the most basic 'open' items - not including the current status of the Confederation, what happened to Corellia without Centerpoint, and the myriad of things that need to happen before Legacy. And something else to remember - it's not that the fans reacted poorly to a 9 book series, or the way in which it was done. Frankly, I suspect that fans
reacted well to many aspects of the series - DR probably saw less drop off in terms of readers (versus a 19 book series). I think the idea of a smaller
interconnected series does have appeal - I think the fans have some (rightful) negative reaction to issues of continuity between novels, and there was some
negativity from some fans towards the finale - but that doesn't mean the entire series is a bust. From DR's standpoint, I'm sure they found it
easier to manage 3 authors, who each have 3 books, which also made it easier for each to pace themselves for each book since they were interspersed.
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QFT Kirr. I actually prefer the 3 author route as opposed to NJO where you had everyone and their mom writing a SW novel. Not that it was bad it is just that
LOTF generally seemed to flow better.
Yes. Better intra-book continuity, better characterisation in terms of from one author to the next, more logical endings and ones that don't pee all over characters that have been with us for a long timeOf course I would like to see this as well. No reason why there cannot be both continuity and good storytelling from 3 selected authors. DR has it in them as well as the people writing the stories. For now though we have allston headlining this and that is a good start IMO. |
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Now, my opinion is - if they're going to continue down the path of a 9 book series, I'd rather see books 1-3 from the same author, 4-6 from the next, and 7-9 from the last - this way there's less continuity between authors to take care of and more likelyhood for certain plotlines/characters to get resolution within a set 'trilogy'. But it also puts more pressure on the authors to get their novels done - less of a gap in which to pace themselves.I also think this could work...but for instance, I'm not the biggest Allston fan, and him having three books in a row before I get to Denning wouldn't be so good. And maybe this Star Trek girl won't be good- and I have to endure three of her books in a row. But I do think it could also work. Daala Count- 20 and counting and Hapans Rule All!
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I actually prefer the 3 author route as opposed to NJO where you had everyone and their mom writing a SW novel. Not that it was bad it is just that
LOTF generally seemed to flow better.
I have to disagree. I felt the overall flow i the NJO was much better than in LOTF considering the scope of the NJO. For the most part the characters where written the same throughout the series. While in the LOTF there seems to be noticeable difference in the characterization of Jacen, Luke, Mara and Ben. I don't remember feeling that way in the NJO. Or maybe I've just forgotten? |
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Posts: 2107 07/23/08 12:57 PM |
If this is another 9 books series, then I at least have this question: Why couldn't they just continue the story of LotF in this? To make the LotF is PT,
OT is to come -theory to come true? When Denning finished Invincible, the continuation of DR's contract was probably already secured, so he could have
Jacen live and to be the villain of FotJ too... What kind of opponent(s) they could have in FotJ that would be equal to Sith Lord who is a Skywalker descendant
- although with an "inferior" (to DR) last name?
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You and I are completely on the same page. |
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While in the LOTF there seems to be noticeable difference in the characterization of Jacen, Luke, Mara and Ben. I think this is helped by the fact that each author had their own section of the story to tell in NJO - and the characters were consistent within that particular 'duology/trilogy'. If the NJO had been set up the same way - a different author every book, even just three authors - I think we would have seen much the same problem. That's why I think a series of three trilogies each by a different author would actually be the better combination. |
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Posts: 347 07/23/08 3:50 PM
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I finally got the website address where the story broke:
http://www.constanzeruettger.de/Star_Wars/Bucher/Updates/updates.html Just a heads up it's in German 
Click on the link for Fate of the Jedi and it gives the same info that JohntheRevelator gave at TFn. |
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Posts: 1817 07/23/08 4:24 PM |
thanks for digging this up corax...
I think it just depends on what one' perception of each SW character. In NJO, I felt Luke's character was all over the map. Same with Mara. In LOTF, I felt that way with Jacen. But even with Jacen, I thought that becuase there were only 3 authors, the story, compared to NJO, still had a better flow. I didn't think this at first but I remember reading what Uliah said and if you read LOTF beginning to end it doesn't feel as disjointed and I felt the same way all the way up until Invincible where it becomes somewhat disjointed again IMO. |
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Nice find, but the date on the German website suggests that the information on it could have come from TFN and not the other way around.
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