Heir to the Empire

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Three book cycle includes: Volume 1 - Heir to the Empire -- Volume 2 - Dark force rising -- Volume 3 - The last command.
It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starlfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years away.

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The Novel That Relaunched Star Wars submitted by SoCalHistorian on June 20, 2020, 4:21pm Although no longer canon, Heir to the Empire is not only a solid novel in and of itself, but also when it was released in the 1990s was responsible for returning Star Wars to popular consciousness. And it introduced one of Star Wars' greatest characters" grand Admiral Thrawn.

A competent villain, until he isn't. submitted by terpsichore17 on July 28, 2021, 9:46am Reading Thrawn is a little like watching Grievous in Tartakovsky's Clone Wars: one is relieved not to have met him sooner because of his extreme competence. Rather like imagining Sherlock Holmes as an admiral, but using his powers of deduction for destruction.

That said, large chunks of this book were not that compelling to me. I read this book to discuss it with friends, and would not have made it through without that motivation.

(According to said friends, this version of Thrawn is less competent than he is in other novels. I don't have the energy to investigate why Zahn's other depictions of the character worked better.)