Thrawn
Zahn rebuilds his own creation for a new continuity, and finds a better story in the climb.
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The strangest thing Del Rey published in the eighties, and it is not close.
Published in June 1983, L. Neil Smith’s first Lando novel finds the gambler newly in possession of the Millennium Falcon and blackmailed into a treasure hunt. Smith wrote all three books of the trilogy in roughly nine weeks, and the results are gloriously eccentric.
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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.