This is Chuck Wendig flair, but from watching Return of the Jedi soon after finishing the book, I also realize that the descriptions match the look of the movies exactly, warts, slime and all. At first, his descriptions of aliens and cybernetics can seem unusually gross and textured for Star Wars: an alien’s mechanical arm is described as “a hasty, ill-fitting job – the wires plugged unceremoniously into the blistering flesh of his red shoulder.” He rapid-fires metaphors in a way that grounds the story in images and actions, creating a grimy, slimy galaxy far, far away that perfectly matches the look of the Original Trilogy. Throughout, the tone is slightly different than has been seen before in the EU, partially because of author Chuck Wendig’s scintillating writing style.
Almost the entire last half is an action scene composed of short chapters and scenes, making the story race along at an exciting pace. The four Rebels find themselves in the middle of Imperial operations on Akiva, as Sloane tries to keep the feuding leaders of the Empire in line. While Imperial bureaucrats scrabble over the considerable infrastructure left in the hands of the Empire, she quietly calculates, holding an ace up her sleeve. She’s a good character more for her place in the story than for any particular quirks.
Ex-Imperial interrogator Sinjir Rath Velus is on a similar life path from the opposite side of the war: after deserting during the Battle of Endor, he wants to drown his sorrows in drink and nearly succeeds before being found by the mercenary bounty hunter Jas Emari.Ī key figure on the Imperial side of things is Rae Sloane, an admiral aboard the Star Destroyer Vigilance. Shell-shocked Rebel pilot Norra Wexley flew her Y-Wing into the Death Star II and barely managed to escape, and now returns to her mechanically-oriented teenage son to try to restart her life. The new characters are the true focus of the story, and are some of the most memorable, personable people to come out of Star Wars novels in a long time. The book hits its stride at about halfway through and doesn’t slow down, becoming a fast-burning action scene that include both gunfights and space battles.
When Rebel pilot Wedge Antilles is captured by Admiral Rae Sloane, a group of four reluctant Rebels find themselves breaking into a palace to save him. Both the Empire and the Rebellion are re-forming, and Aftermath shows some of that. Do the New Republic and the Empire become the Resistance and the First Order? Is it even that simple? How different will the new Expanded Universe be from the one fans know and love?īoth the main story in the novel and the two-to-three-page “interludes” in between offer glimpses at the future of the Star Wars universe, especially the galactic governments. Set about 30 years before The Force Awakens, Aftermath is the best opportunity so far to find out what the franchise will look like in the future. It’s only with Aftermath by Chuck Wendig, though, that the new material starts showing what happened after Return of the Jedi, exploring territory once chronicled in a panoply of books and comics but now a daring, new frontier.Īftermath shoulders the burden of answering questions fans have going into The Force Awakens, at least enough to pull back the curtain a little bit on J. The first canon novel, appropriately enough named A New Dawn, tied into the Star Wars Rebels television series.
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The first canon story outside The Clone Warswas the comic series Son of Dathomir, an extension of the animated series. It’s been a time of firsts in the Star Wars franchise since Disney purchased Lucasfilm and rebooted most of the continuity.
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