Found: The Han Solo Adventures
May. 17th, 2006 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalI'm speaking of course of Brian Daley's trio of Han Solo novels, Han Solo at Star's End, Han Solo's Revenge, and Han Solo and the Lost Legacy. I found them as an omnibus paperback at Border's while I was picking up a couple of magazines for Tracy, and grabbed it on my way to the checkout counter. It's hard to remember in the age of Timothy Zhan and the horde of other Post Empire novels, that these three slim books, along with Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Star Wars and his follow up book Splinter in the Mind's Eye (and a series of really awful Marvel comics) were the only expansions to George Lucas' movie out there in the three year period between Star Wars and the release of TESB.
Daley cheats a bit of course. Whether it was to deliberately avoid messing with Star Wars' very slim canon, or because Del Rey had a limited rights release, the action isn't set against the might of the Empire, but a more generic Corporate Sector Authority. Nevertheless Daley manages to capture Han's voice quite nicely, even in the early bits where it's just him holding a one sided conversation with Chewbacca. I'm just partway through Star's End, and it's still the nice bit of comfort reading I remember when I was ten years old. Far superior in my mind these days to the overhyped adventures of Zhan and his sucessors, whom I've never really enjoyed.
Daley cheats a bit of course. Whether it was to deliberately avoid messing with Star Wars' very slim canon, or because Del Rey had a limited rights release, the action isn't set against the might of the Empire, but a more generic Corporate Sector Authority. Nevertheless Daley manages to capture Han's voice quite nicely, even in the early bits where it's just him holding a one sided conversation with Chewbacca. I'm just partway through Star's End, and it's still the nice bit of comfort reading I remember when I was ten years old. Far superior in my mind these days to the overhyped adventures of Zhan and his sucessors, whom I've never really enjoyed.
