The Han Solo Adventures
by Brian Daley
Star Wars: The Han Solo Adventures (Collections and Selections — 1-3), Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire era, Star Wars Novels (2-1 BBY), Star Wars Universe (2-1 BBY)
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Han Solo and Chewbacca’s extraordinary exploits carry them across the galaxy in this awesome trilogy. Han Solo at Star’s End: Han Solo trusts no one, and does no favors. But when the best illegal ship rebuilder in the galaxy disappears, Han and Chewbacca agree to go after him—after all, the Millennium Falcon needs some very special repairs. Their search pits them against powerful and ruthless enemies out to destroy them, and finally leads them to an airless speck of desolate show more asteroid—the Authority prison planet known as Stars’ End. Han Solo’s Revenge: For a cool ten thousand credits, Han and Chewbacca will do just about anything—except transport slaves. For one thing, it means an instant death sentence. So when a high-paying cargo shipment turns out to be a consignment of slaves, Han and Chewie have to think fast. But Han forms a plan to turn the tables on the slavers and free the captives. Then, good deed accomplished, he scours the skies for the nasty joker who set him up—because revenge can be so sweet. Han Solo and the Lost Legacy: There’s a fabled treasure at stake and a price on Han’s head. So he and Chewbacca head for a planet rumored to hide undreamed-of riches. But once they get there, Han’s beloved spacecraft, the Millennium Falcon, is hijacked by a band of assassins and killer robots. Their chances for survival are so slim, they might as well risk it all. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!. show lessTags
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These books add plenty of great lore into the Star Wars universe and we get to see Han and Chewie in the midst of their friendship and smuggling jobs before the events of A New Hope. Overall it provides a great look into their past life before the Rebellion and enhances our understanding of the galaxy. Unfortunately it can drag in parts and doesn't work to its full potential, but as far as something written in the Legends continuity you can't go wrong with it.
OK, so it's just adventure, and somewhat campy adventure at that ... I like it anyway. In each of these stories, which take place in the years before Episode IV, you see traces of the buried altrustic streak that prompted Han to stick around and intervene at the Death Star. (I hope that's not a spoiler for anyone.)
A fun read with lots of action; this action is described in such detail that it's as if the book is trying to make you literally see it like a movie.
I liked these stories well enough. I don't have much experience reading the Star Wars EU books, so I can't judge these stories as compared to the rest. I felt these were solid, yet run of the mill adventure stories. The biggest (and some may say only) thing they have going for them is Han Solo. He is pretty close to how I think he should be portrayed in the book, with no major out of character moments that I can recall.
I'll give it 3 stars because it wasn't anything special but I still enjoyed reading them.
I'll give it 3 stars because it wasn't anything special but I still enjoyed reading them.
"The Free-Flight Dance Dome was a first-class trough. It was equipped with a top-of-the-line gravity field, its console visible among the bottles, spigots, and taps, and other paraphernalia encircled by the bar. The field permitted the management to alter gravity anywhere on the premises, and so the dance floor and the dome over it had become a low-gee acrobatic playground in which singles, couples, and groups looped, floated, and spun with effortless grace. Han also spotted individual booths and tables where species from low-gravity worlds were taking their ease in comfort, the specific gravity of their area having been lowered for them."
I'm sorry, book. It's not you, book, it's me.
This promised fun but instead the story got lost on show more me. I just could not get interested in it.
It was all: gun smuggling, blah, blah, battle scene, blah, blah, quipping with female, blah, blah, getting attached to droid, blah blah...
I have no idea what I read. However, I am putting this down to the fact that sci-fi just is not my bag. At all. Not interested.
This edition contains three stories / books, but I only read At Stars' End, as part of a bingo challenge. show less
I'm sorry, book. It's not you, book, it's me.
This promised fun but instead the story got lost on show more me. I just could not get interested in it.
It was all: gun smuggling, blah, blah, battle scene, blah, blah, quipping with female, blah, blah, getting attached to droid, blah blah...
I have no idea what I read. However, I am putting this down to the fact that sci-fi just is not my bag. At all. Not interested.
This edition contains three stories / books, but I only read At Stars' End, as part of a bingo challenge. show less
Unfortunately, I couldn't finish it. The story was a bit dry and predictable. In addition, it really didn't feel much like Star Wars.
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- Canonical title
- The Han Solo Adventures
- Original publication date
- 1992-04-22
- People/Characters
- Han Solo; Chewbacca
- Dedication
- (Han Solo at Stars' End)
To Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson,
For their kind words to a new guy
and
Owen Lock: learned editor and editor,
who'll race to Antares for pinks, any time
(Han Solo's Revenge)
For Cargo-master-apprentice Dane Thorson, Chief Scout Adam Reith, Jason dinAlt, Jame Retief of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne and all others of that rare stripe
(Han Solo and the Lost Legacy)
A book for Linda Kuehl
and, with particlar gratitude,
for John A. Kearney - First words
- (Han Solo at Stars' End) "It's a warship all right. Damn!"
(Han Solo's Revenge) "Chewie, hey, I've got it!"
(Han Solo and the Lost Legacy) "Han Solo nearly had the control-stem leads hooked up, a sweaty job that had him stuck under the low-slung airspeeder for almost an hour, when there was a kick at his foot." - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)(Han Solo at Stars' End) But after that, everybody had best hang on to his cash with both hands.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)(Han Solo's Revenge) Han leaned forward again and blew Fiolla a heartfelt kiss.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)(Han Solo and the Lost Legacy) "There," Badure declared to Hasti, Skynx, Bollux, and Blue Max, "go the real Survivors."
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