Tales from the Empire

Compilation of short stories set in the Empire. Most of the stories focus on rebels. I especially like the ones that involve Mara Jade and Corran Horn. This book fills in portions of their backstories. In these we find out how Talon Karrde meets Mara Jade, how Corran ends up joining the rebellion, and how Corran and Hall capture Patches.

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I really wish they would make an anthology solely of Zahn and Stackpole's Star Wars short stories. I only liked ONE of the short stories in this collection that wasn't by Zahn or Stackpole (Laura Burns' "Do No Harm"), and this is a trend with me and the Star Wars short story collections.

"Missed Chance" by Stackpole and the "Side Trip" collab by Zahn and Stackpole make this collection worth it, I guess.

I really wish they would make an anthology solely of Zahn and Stackpole's Star Wars short stories. I only liked ONE of the short stories in this collection that wasn't by Zahn or Stackpole (Laura Burns' "Do No Harm"), and this is a trend with me and the Star Wars short story collections.

"Missed Chance" by Stackpole and the "Side Trip" collab by Zahn and Stackpole make this collection worth it, I guess.

Misleading cover art aside - there's no Boba Fett here - this is an okay if unremarkable anthology. I can only really recommend it to hardcore fans.

For many years in the canon timeline, the galaxy had been ruled by the Emperor and his galactic empire. During such times, adventures had occurred, tales of rebel heroes fighting on the rise against the Empire. Tales from the Empire, edited by Peter Schweighofer, features specially selected stories that were originally published in the Star Wars Adventure Journal magazine written by well-known authors such as Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, Kathy Tyers, and more. Such tales include how Mara Jade and Talon Karrde became associates, along with the collaboration done by Zahn and Stackpole named Side Trip.

In this book there are different stories.Each story tells about a man or woman in the Empire doing stuff.They go on adventures.For example,a man named qiunlon vos is an agent for the empire. He does all sorts of bad stuff. Then he realizes that he is doing bad stuff for the empire. He deserts. This story tells about his adventures when he deserts the empire. It also tells of other stories about the imperial agents.

Just skip the first few stories and you are good to go.
3 "First Contact" by Timothy Zahn
2 "Tinian on Trial" by Kathy Tyers
2 "The Final Exit" by Patricia A. Jackson
4 "Missed Chance" by Michael A. Stackpole
4 "Retreat from Coruscant" by Laurie Burns
5 "A Certain Point of View" by Charlene Newcomb
5 "Blaze of Glory" by Tony Russo
3 "Slaying Dragons" by Angela Phillips
5 "Do No Harm" by Erin Endom
4 "Side Trip" by Timothy Zahn (Part One and Part Four)
Michael A. Stackpole (Part Two and Part Three)