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Posts: 2858 09/12/08 12:33 PM
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Don't tell me I'm the first to break this news, am I?
http://www.starwars.com/v...t/books/news20080912.html EDIT: Okay, Rogue beat me to it, but this is as good a place as any to discuss it. GO! 
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 Posts: 2386 09/12/08 12:48 PM |
Here's then what Starwars.com says about the series:
Among the titles launching in 2009 are the first three in a new Star Warsmulti-book, multi-author story arc following directly in the footsteps of the Legacy of the Force series. The nine-book, three-author series, Star Wars Fate of the Jedi, will break new ground by being the first multi-book Star Wars series to be published all in hardcover. The series, which will be published over the space of three years, will launch in April 2009 with Outcast, by Aaron Allston; the other two authors planning and penning the nine novels will be Christie Golden and Troy Denning. Seems to fit with the rumours so far. Considering the whole all hardcover thing, it sounds like DR intends this to be a very big deal. I just don't frankly understand how it can be all that huge, when it seems that there isn't that much that can happen. Sorry, I know many are expecting favourite characters to do all sorts of things, which in themselves are important on the level of individual characters, but how could this be an overall epic series? DR had epic material in LotF, and it crashed, burned, fell off a cliff into sea and got eaten by sharks. As much as I try to think otherwise, it seems like this might turn out to be a rather loosely connected, fragmentary series with no great overall plot to drive it, just some excuse. That aside, there will of course have to be the necessary shock death and a separate, painful, extended death scene - or several of them. As I have argued elsewhere on NJOE previously, I think that Lando will be the shock death. If Daala will be a villain, then she is going to die, but surely someone from the side of the good guys will experience a gruesome death in addition to the shock death. Thus, without really any reason to give, I nominate Kyp for the gruesome death. EDIT: I have no idea where the  comes to the text I copied from
Starwars.com. An omen of feelings to come? 
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Posts: 2861 09/12/08 12:56 PM
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I gotta be honest, I'm miffed to hear that Denning's back on board, after what happened with Invincible. Usually when you do a piss-poor job at
something, you're likely to be fired, not re-signed for another 3 year-contract.
 Denning almost seems to be Del Rey's abusive boyfriend; even after
the disappointing job he's done in the past (this includes Dark Nest), they keep taking him back because they're afraid of life without him. He's a
comfortable old shoe, after all. Del Rey seems too timid to go out and find a new boyfriend!
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Posts: 2387 09/12/08 1:01 PM |
I personally guess that FotJ was already pretty much a done deal when Denning handed in the manuscript of Invincible and it must have been when the negative
views about Invincible became a flood. So, there might not actually been much DR could have done short of paying Denning to go away. Certainly explains why
they were so eager to answer questions and defend the novel in TOS.
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Posts: 616 09/12/08 1:53 PM
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Way to go Jaina!! Good work
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Posts: 2862 09/12/08 1:54 PM
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Rogue beat me to the punch!
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Posts: 618 09/12/08 1:58 PM
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Way to go Rogue!! Good work
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Posts: 2389 09/12/08 1:59 PM |
No, Jaina SoIo is the first here who got it independently, I got it from TFN where eddie1969 was first with it. Thanks still.
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Posts: 619 09/12/08 2:04 PM
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Alright well I changed the front page news to give you the credit Rogue and thanked Jaina for the clarification
So if you two are happy with that than
I'm happy too.
Either way good work to both of you
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Posts: 2396 09/12/08 2:13 PM
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While I'm REALLY REALLY happy Denning is coming back and this is going to be post-LOTF, I am SOOOO NOT HAPPY about all of these being hardcovers. I
can't get them! THANKS DEL RAY!
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Posts: 2390 09/12/08 2:19 PM |
corax wrote:Well, I don't deserve it, but thanks!
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Posts: 620 09/12/08 2:49 PM
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Your welcome.
Now since this has finally been confirmed I think it's a safe bet that what fanboyskywalker found out at SDCC was true. So according to him this is what's "known" about FotJ: The first book is subtitled "Outcast." This is likely a reference to Boba Fett. Daala is still in charge. There is an "event" that causes a problem/rift for the Jedi. The Sith are quietly manipulating things behind the scenes. There might be some Daala/Sith interaction, but she doesn't realize they are Sith. Jag struggles to maintain the Empire. Daala has revenge in mind for the Moffs. Jag needs help protecting the Empire from Daala's GA. Meanwhile, Luke is called away into action. He takes Ben with him. They are gone on a separate, solo adventure. The Jedi must take action in one of their most desperate hours without the guidance of Luke. Jaina immediatly wants to go to Jag's side and help. Others don't. We get the first stirrings of the formation of the Imperial Knights. Daala enlists the help of Mandalore and his army to deal with this increasing Jedi problem. We are leading up the ultimate Mandalorian vs. Jedi battle to the death. |
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Posts: 2391 09/12/08 2:53 PM |
And still I believe - sadly - that Boba Fett will come out of this alive. I really wish I could believe that he dies in this (if that is what the series will
be about) but I just can't. But is he Mandalore still in FotJ? It might be that he isn't, so that he can live and the new Mandalore can die as a
villain.
Theoretically this should be a place where we would get many new, important Jedi, but... I don't believe it, yet Allston's few surviving Jedi from LotF should appear here, at least. Nor do I believe that the senior Jedi will be in a terribly huge roles in this. Why? Voice of pessimism, I guess, but they haven't actually done much on-screen since NJO. There's no Traviss and still I can't throw aside the feeling that the Jedi will be shown in a negative light, once again. Perhaps it's the IK mention, a feeling that the new kids on the block will have to be shown looking good compared to the Jedi to sold them to novel audience. 
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Posts: 2864 09/12/08 2:53 PM
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While I'd like to believe that, I find it hard that and insider at Del Rey would be so stupid as to spill that much information about the series.
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Posts: 2398 09/12/08 2:54 PM
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I think if this IS true, then Boba Fett will definitely die. I mean, how old will he be during this? 80-ish? Yes, we know old people can still kick *ss in
SW, but that's stretching it a bit.
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Posts: 2392 09/12/08 3:02 PM |
I don't think that Boba Fett can die. He has grown too big to be killed off, I'm afraid. And, to joke, he's too old to die. In SW EU it's
mainly the young people who die, and the older you get, the more unlikely your death becomes...
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Posts: 2154 09/12/08 3:02 PM
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I am not sure how I feel about this...I think once MF comes out, I will have a better feel of where DR is going with all this and be able to commetn further.
I wonder what Denning has in store. Will he be back on par like his older stuff or will he flop around like he did near the end of LOTF? And I have huge reservations about Golden. But-every author deserves a chance so I think she does too regardless of whether people liked her other work or not. SW is a whole new ball game and to me, it is hard to compare other Sci-fi with SW because SW does not seem to fit one particualr formula IMO. As for Allston? The man can do no wrong at this point. Nuff said. |
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Posts: 2399 09/12/08 3:06 PM
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I don't think that Boba Fett can die. He has grown too big to be killed off, I'm afraid. And, to joke, he's too
old to die. In SW EU it's mainly the young people who die, and the older you get, the more unlikely your death becomes...
Pellaeon was pretty old.
And about Golden.... I don't know. I have a bad feeling about her.
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Posts: 2393 09/12/08 3:10 PM |
Well, Pellaeon lived to be 97 (previous age) or 92 (age given in Revelation). He's not the exception that proves the rule, but his example just shows how
he wasn't "retired" previously, even when it might have made sense to have different kind of stories about IR, the one we got in the last novels
of LotF. Writers seem to hesitate killing the old folks, like was seen in LotF. The older the character, the less likely to die.
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Posts: 2865 09/12/08 3:11 PM
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Star Wars Truth #1: No one can die onscreen a peaceful death. Either you die a violent death or murder (regardless of age), or you die offscreen of old age
with barely a mention, ala Ackbar (or with no mention, like Mon Mothma). For once, I'd like to see an on-screen death-by-old-age, like Yoda's passing.
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Posts: 2394 09/12/08 3:15 PM |
Lot of the older characters just disappear. Like Garm bel Iblis, Rostek Horn and Streen, who if alive are about the same age as Pellaeon was.
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