Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm
Twenty-five thousand years before the films, and nobody has invented the word Jedi yet.
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124 entries across 12 eras, canon and Legends together. 43 fully reviewed.
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Twenty-five thousand years before the films, and nobody has invented the word Jedi yet.
The second arc, and the one where the Je’daii start disagreeing about balance.
The Je’daii become the Jedi, and it costs them the argument they were founded on.
The only prose novel ever set in the franchise’s deepest past.
The first serious attempt to give Star Wars a deep past.
The first tie-in novel for the MMO, and it has to introduce everything at once.
Horror at the Sith academy, three and a half thousand years before anyone can help.
The novel behind the Sacking of Coruscant trailer.
The game’s lead writer comes back to answer the question the game left open.
A spy thriller with a superweapon in it, which is the Old Republic line in one sentence.
One Jedi, alone, behind the lines of a galaxy the Republic has already written off.
The partnership the films took for granted, finally shown being built.
How one miner decided a thousand Sith were nine hundred and ninety-nine too many.
The doctrine survives its first contact with an actual apprentice.
The Rule of Two comes due.
A generation of readers met Obi-Wan Kenobi here first.
Fifty years of Sith project management, and it is riveting.
A thriller in which the monster is the one doing the hunting, and he is very good at it.
Darth Maul in a prison-fighting pit, on an errand for his master.
A publishing initiative disguised as a disaster novel, and mostly the better for it.
The fair, the fireworks, and the moment the Nihil stop being a nuisance.
A siege novel that turns the era’s proudest symbol into a trap.
Padawans stranded on a very wrong space station.
A salvage pilot, a corporate marriage, and Jedi who are out of their depth.
Four survivors, one very young Jedi Knight, one hostile moon.
The whole Nihil story told from inside the Nihil, and it is the best thing in Phase I.
The all-ages wing of the era, and quietly one of its best corners.
Jedi on Corellia, working a case in a city that does not want them.
The era finally asks what attachment costs the people holding the line.
Phase II opens a hundred and fifty years earlier, with a war nobody in Phase I mentioned.
A cult that believes the Force should belong to nobody, and the Jedi who cannot argue with it.
A holy city, a dozen faiths, and a peace conference that does not survive contact.
Phase II escalates, and the Path of the Open Hand stops being a fringe movement.
A year after Starlight fell, and the Republic has lost a quarter of the Outer Rim.
The last book of a five-year, three-phase, four-format publishing experiment.
A bestselling fantasy novelist adapts the most scrutinised film of the decade.
All twelve Jedi Councillors leave the Temple. It goes about as well as you would expect.
Padmé stops being a queen and has to work out what she is instead.
Teenage Obi-Wan Kenobi, badly, wonderfully out of his depth.
A full-cast audio drama about the Jedi who left, told by the assassin he hired.
Six Dreadnaughts, fifty thousand colonists, and one Chiss commander with a decision to make.
Thrawn at home, in a society with rules he is constantly, politely breaking.
Chiss politics, at length, with a fleet action attached.
The Ascendancy trilogy closes, and explains how a Chiss officer ends up in Imperial uniform.
The novelization that tries to make the romance work, and very nearly does.
The Jedi Council decides to have someone assassinated, and it goes exactly as well as you would expect.
Master and apprentice become something the Order has no word for.
Mace Windu goes home, and Star Wars goes somewhere it had never been.
Four clone commandos, one sabotage mission, and no Jedi worth the name.
The novelization that is better than the film it novelizes.
The first weeks inside the suit, written as a man discovering what he agreed to.
Zahn rebuilds his own creation for a new continuity, and finds a better story in the climb.
Two timelines, one grudging partnership, and Darth Vader in a very bad mood.
Budget politics at the top of the Imperial Navy, which is more gripping than it sounds.
The first novel of the new canon, and a workplace thriller about industrial murder.
The man who out-argued Darth Vader gets a biography.
Palpatine and Vader, stranded, hunted, and entirely too pleased about it.
How a research grant becomes a superweapon.
The first weeks of the Empire, from inside a Senate that has not yet admitted what happened.
Sixteen-year-old Leia works out what her parents do at night.
A Western about a man who cannot help himself.
What a former Jedi does when there is no Order left to be former to.
Pure pulp, written before anyone decided Star Wars had rules.
The strangest thing Del Rey published in the eighties, and it is not close.
The first Star Wars book, published six months before the first Star Wars film.
The sequel that was written in case the first film flopped.
Better than its reputation, and the first prose to state the thing out loud.
The one with the extra Anakin, and a surprisingly interior Vader.
A multimedia campaign with a novel bolted to the front of it.
Five background characters from one scene, given five whole lives.
Vader in disgrace, running his own black operation, with a rogue archaeologist for company.
An amoral archaeologist, two homicidal droids, and no supervision whatsoever.
The comic run, adapted for a full cast, and it works better than it should.
The rare novelization that adds an argument rather than deleted scenes.
Star Wars does a zombie novel, entirely straight-faced.
The Rebellion from the mud upward, with no Jedi anywhere near it.
Two friends join the Imperial Academy. Only one of them stays.
A hundred ships, two pages each, and a generation of readers memorising all of it.
Cutaway photography, annotated props, and the best-designed Star Wars books ever made.
The archive opened, and it turns out nobody knew what they were doing.
Somebody sat down and drew the whole galaxy. Properly.
The new canon gets its first single-volume overview.
A coffee table that comes with a book attached.
The comic that brought the Emperor back, and got away with it for about a decade.
The book that proved Star Wars could live on a shelf instead of a screen.
The middle book, and unusually the one where the politics get interesting.
The campaign ends the way good campaigns end: because of one person’s judgement.
Luke goes looking for students, and Legends gets its Jedi Order back.
Star Wars discovers the workplace novel, and it is about fighter pilots.
A squadron built entirely out of pilots nobody else wanted.
Nine years on, and a rumour that Thrawn is alive is nearly as effective as Thrawn.
The end of the Bantam era, and the closing argument on Legends Thrawn.
The first Star Wars novel written in first person, and it uses the trick properly.
Luke and Mara go looking for a wreck, and find out what the Chiss have been doing with it.
The Empire loses at Endor and then has to work out what losing means.
Five pilots, five different starfighters, and a war that has technically already ended.
Han and Chewbacca get their own war, and the ensemble finally gels.
The Battle of Jakku, finally dramatised.
A senate procedural about the republic that is about to lose everything.
Three timelines, two smugglers, and a droid uprising nobody asked for.
The wedding, the honeymoon, and the awkward business of peace.
The book that killed a main character and moved the licence to Del Rey.
The Jedi start arguing about what they are for, which is the series in miniature.
The Battle of Duro, and a refugee crisis the New Republic cannot administer.
The one where the series stops bluffing.
A prisoner, a teacher, and the most radical thing anyone has written about the Force.
A working science-fiction novelist arrives and rebuilds the war from the strategy up.
Nineteen books, four years, and an ending that actually lands.
The night the temple burned, told without the excuses either side offers for it.
The man who ghostwrote the first Star Wars book comes back for the seventh film.
A frame story about a survivalist, told by people who want her destroyed.
An expanded edition that argues with the film in the film’s favour.
Rebuilding a resistance out of a phone list, which is more interesting than it sounds.
The expanded edition that has to explain rather more than a novelization usually does.
A spy novel that doubles as a guidebook to a theme park.
Luke and Lando, twenty years on, hunting something neither of them understands.
Concept art as a record of every film that was almost made instead.
The Solo family starts coming apart, slowly and on purpose.
Boba Fett gets a family, and the Mandalorians get a foreign policy.
The book the whole nine-volume series was built to make possible.
A sister hunts her twin brother, and the series does not blink.
Luke Skywalker is exiled from the government he helped build.
Nine books of Abeloth resolve, and the Jedi finally leave Coruscant behind.
Luke, Han and Leia, in their sixties, closing the shelf they opened in 1991.
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