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		Sue Rostoni Member Profile Total Posts: 2798 Member Since: 11/01

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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 10:34 AM

I like the LofF overall, but some things were brought up and never followed up on. In the first book (I think) we had Wedge and Tycho, but then never hear another thing about them. Then you had Syal Antilles (I think that's the one) who is brought in like she will be a big part of the series and then nothing is heard about her. I could even see if some characters only popped up in a certain author's novel, but those few weren't. I also thought a big deal was made over Jaina's Mando training and then she apparently only used it in one fight (the first). That should have been in THE fight.

This is a possible downside to having multiple authors write a series. Certain authors love certain characters and feature them in their books, never to be seen again. However, the flip side is that more readers get a taste of different characters and situations, and, hopefully, more of you will find what you want.

		Sue Rostoni Member Profile Total Posts: 2798 Member Since: 11/01

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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 10:38 AM

Possible spoiler below:

How long until we hear something official (from SW.com) on the new novel coming out the end of the year "Melinium Falcon"? Is it on the old contract, a stand-alone (is that possible?) or is it the first of a new contract? I understand if you can't answer but I'm just so dang curious.

I don't know how long. Generally we wait until there's a cover or something to show, along with some cover copy. I know that with Indy and Clone Wars we've all been playing catch-up.
It's a stand-alone by Jim Luceno and is set a few years after the events of Legacy of the Force. Han, Leia, and Allana go off on an adventure.... and all three come back alive, just so you know.

		eddie Member Profile Total Posts: 1054 Member Since: 12/99

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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 10:39 AM

I've just received the book today, and gonna read all books back-to-back in the coming weeks (I like to read a series when it's complete). But, naturally, I browsed the book once I got it out the box, and seeing these little jokes Jacen used to make in the Young Jedi Knights-books made me feel kinda emotional (I've read these juvenile books once the came out). It brought back memories when Jacen and Jaina used to have these adventures as twins, unknowing of what fate the galaxy had in store for them... Anyway, I think I am gonna like this series very very much...

On a side note, I really like the layout of the wrap-around cover: the color, the image,t he text-blurbs... (and I hope the announcement in the back is the first book of the new contract as I like what Del Rey, and LucasBooks, are doing a lot...)

		Elephanto Total Posts: 117 Member Since: 12/01

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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 10:40 AM

Hi Sue,

I would just like to say how much I enjoyed Invincible. I thought that for the final book of LotF it was great. It focused in on Jacen being the key to the whole crisis and while the resolution to the war was short, it made sense from my perspective. Well done to everyone involved.

This combined with James Luceno writing Millenium Falcon and the amazing Legacy comic series has me really looking forward to what future stories you have planned for us.

		Sue Rostoni Member Profile Total Posts: 2798 Member Since: 11/01

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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 10:43 AM

This combined with James Luceno writing Millenium Falcon and the amazing Legacy comic series has me really looking forward to what future stories you have planned for us.

Me too. I just wish the contract issues would get resolved so I could TALK about what's going on!!!!!!

GhostofAnakin
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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 11:10 AM

This message was edited by GhostofAnakin on May 20, 2008 11:11 AM

It's a stand-alone by Jim Luceno and is set a few years after the events of Legacy of the Force.

Sue, is there a reason you guys (whoever decides on the timeline) set the Millennium Falcon book so far after an existing series?

The reason I ask is, it seems with every subsequent book, a handful of years always pass between them. What that does, IMO, is age our heroes so fast, that before we know it, they're old.

**SPOILER**

For instance, "a few years" after LotF means that a character like Jaina will be closing in on 40. It just seems like yesterday that she was a teenager in the Yuuzhan Vong war, and only 3 series later she's middle aged? Allana is 4 or 5 in LotF. Now she'll be 10 or 11. That's quite a leap in age. Will we ever get filler novels, to fill in these huge gaps?

		Sue Rostoni Member Profile Total Posts: 2798 Member Since: 11/01

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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 11:17 AM

It's a stand-alone by Jim Luceno and is set a few years after the events of Legacy of the Force.

Sue, is there a reason you guys (whoever decides on the timeline) set the Millennium Falcon book so far after an existing series?

The reason I ask is, it seems with every subsequent book, a handful of years always pass between them. What that does, IMO, is age our heroes so fast, that before we know it, they're old.

**SPOILER**

For instance, "a few years" after LotF means that a character like Jaina will be closing in on 40. It just seems like yesterday that she was a teenager in the Yuuzhan Vong war, and only 3 series later she's middle aged? Allana is 4 or 5 in LotF. Now she'll be 10 or 11. That's quite a leap in age. Will we ever get filler novels, to fill in these huge gaps?

It's more like two years in between, so Allana will only be 6 or 7. We're putting the gap in there so you won't have to read about the angst and grief our main characters experience after Jacen's death, etc. We want them to be able to recover a bit, off camera.

jacenfan1
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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 11:31 AM

Thanks so much for answering Sue!! You're the best!! Well, at least top five... Just kidding... you're the best! I love Luceno's novels. I also like the gap. I think it's good to have some down time as well to show that our heroes actually do have stretches (though small they are) of somewhat normal life when the galaxy isn't falling appart. The new book sounds great!

Sue, you really have me looking forward to you being able to talk about what's going on in the future. COMEON CONTRACT STUFF!!!! GET RESOLVED!!!!

Jacenfan1

		Sue Rostoni Member Profile Total Posts: 2798 Member Since: 11/01

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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 11:34 AM

Sue, you really have me looking forward to you being able to talk about what's going on in the future. COMEON CONTRACT STUFF!!!! GET RESOLVED!!!!

I KNOW!!!! It's so frustrating!!!!!! There are so many good things coming up --- I'll have to wrap my fingers in duct tape to keep the spoilers under control. I may be forced to.... to........ BLOG!

GhostofAnakin
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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 11:41 AM

It's more like two years in between, so Allana will only be 6 or 7. We're putting the gap in there so you won't have to read about the angst and grief our main characters experience after Jacen's death, etc. We want them to be able to recover a bit, off camera.

Ah, that's not so bad then. I was worried that we'd be seeing a Ben Skywalker in his early to mid-twenties or something.

jacenfan1
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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 11:43 AM

I'll step in line first to read that Blog!!
POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!!!

I must say as well that it was a good move to make the Allana move (you know what I mean). As a HUGE jacenfan it gives me more reasons to continue reading... as if I could ever stop.

NO more spoilers....

monocularman
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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 11:48 AM

SPOILER

> It's more like two years in between, so Allana will
> only be 6 or 7. We're putting the gap in there so
> you won't have to read about the angst and grief our
> main characters experience after Jacen's death, etc.

What?! Why would you skip over the emotional aftermath of the death one of the EU's most pivotal characters? "Jacen's dead, so we can move on and forget him?" All told, about fifteen pages was spent dealing with the main characters', mostly Jaina's, reactions to Jacen's death, and that's all we're going to get?

		Sue Rostoni Member Profile Total Posts: 2798 Member Since: 11/01

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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 11:58 AM

This message was edited by Sue Rostoni on May 20, 2008 11:59 AM

What?! Why would you skip over the emotional aftermath of the death one of the EU's most pivotal characters? "Jacen's dead, so we can move on and forget him?" All told, about fifteen pages was spent dealing with the main characters', mostly Jaina's, reactions to Jacen's death, and that's all we're going to get?

It seemed to us that most of the readers disliked how Han dealt with Chewie's death in The New Jedi Order series and the Legacy series was so fraught with emotional aftermaths that we decided to give the readers a rest from the pain of it all. And a lot of people like to grieve in private.

monocularman
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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 12:26 PM

This message was edited by monocularman on May 20, 2008 12:33 PM

But the pain of it all is what makes it so interesting to read. It's cathartic. If people want a rest from the pain of it all, then they can hold off reading the next book until they're ready to dive back in. How do you think readers would have reacted if, following Mara's death, the next book had picked up a few years later. Ben and Luke may have moved on by then, but the readers won't have; to them, Mara's death would still be fresh in their minds. Many of them may be looking for some sort of closure following her death, but they won't get it because the grieving took place "off camera' as you said.

It's the same with Jacen. Readers, with his death still fresh in their minds, will open the next chronological book and find that the other characters have moved on.

monocularman
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Date Posted: May 20, 2008 12:34 PM

You say people like to mourn in private. True, but there's a lot of things people like to do in private that characters don't get to do in private. I doubt Leia like the idea of thousands witnessing the birth of her children, or that Luke wanted millions to watch him say goodbye to his father.

Readers need to be able to connect with characters, and it's very hard to connect with, say, a father who seemingly loses his only remaining son and does not mourn for him, as Han will seem when we see him next in Millenium Falcon.

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