STAR WARS: AFTERMATH Begins The Journey To THE FORCE AWAKENS

I will be reading this

This and Lords of the Sith are on my "Must Buy" list

I will read the shit out of this

@CombatWombat I'm not pissed. I read tons of the Star Wars novels, and while there are examples of very good stories, most of them are trash really. They expand on the universe but the writing is generally garbage-sauce. So it's actually cool, I get TWO star wars universes! And you know one day they'll cross em over somehow, but if they don't I wouldn't care. MORE STAR WARS IS GOOD STAR WARS.

Neat. I just bought the first novel in the rebooted EU with A New Dawn so I'm ready!

Although I am one of the many who did invest time and money into the EU novels and am violently pissed about the potential flushing of all that material...I will withhold my vehement rage till I have everything in front of me and see what has been used from the EU and what was thrown away.

And the only reason I'm giving this a chance and not joining the nerdrage is because the EU was NEVER supposed to be canon...not once was it ever and I know that. Does it mean that I wasn't emotionally invested in these stories? no. But I knew that at anytime...the canon could come along and wipe out whole sections of novel stories...you can't be a Boba Fett fan and not hold that sort of malleability.

The key to consolidating the movies and the EU before George Lucas sold Lucasarts was just take what was given and try to do the best you can to make BOTH work.

I really wish we could have seen David Lynch's Return of the Jedi. Man, that would have been darker than Empire and totally sick.

They already had stories that spelled all this out. This is the one part of this that pisses me off. Yeah, I can still enjoy the EU as basically an alternate universe. But it irritates me that they are throwing away over 20 years of good stories just so Disney could write new stories without having to worry about continuity, especially when I'm pretty sure the EU had been purposely designed to allow George Lucas's ideas for the next trilogy to still happen one day. (And yes, I still firmly believe in Lucas's vision for the Star Wars universe, despite the whining of fanboys who wanted to see an entire movie of nothing but Darth Vader killing Jedi.) Instead, Abrams evidently scrapped Lucas's ideas in order to satisfy fanboys who want more of Luke, Leia, and Han instead of new characters (if the rumors are true.)

I hope this new trilogy turns out to be everything we hope it is, but honestly I have my doubts. While I liked Abrams's Star Trek movies overall, there were things that he got wrong about the Star Trek universe (they were minor, and I am NOT a whiny fanboy who lets little things get in the way of enjoying a movie.) My fear with Star Wars is that he may be too much of a fanboy, and that satisfying fanboys will get in the way of making a truly great movie with a great story. Hopefully I'm wrong.

@Jollem - I play this card in attack mode against your Darth Vader.

Sorry Vicky but Truce AT Bakura was a shite book. I have low hopes for these new novels but the idea of a cohesive universe of books, shows, and films that have a united creative team is intriguing. The old EU used to shoehorn stories into the timeline and it got so convoluted that the stories were unable to have creative leeway. I read a few dozens EU books and gave up when the main storyline was grasping at straws for ideas.