Star Wars: Shatterpoint
Mace Windu goes home, and Star Wars goes somewhere it had never been.
Topic
8 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
From the library
Mace Windu goes home, and Star Wars goes somewhere it had never been.
The novelization that is better than the film it novelizes.
A prisoner, a teacher, and the most radical thing anyone has written about the Force.
Who is involved
Spent his career as the Jedi who believed his own publicity, and then earned every word of it in one doorway.
The most argued-about character in Legends: teacher, torturer, Sith, or none of the above.
Written about it
An argument, clearly labelled as one, for the Revenge of the Sith novelisation as the high-water mark of Star Wars prose.
Interiority, bureaucracy and time: three things prose gets for free and cinema has to pay for.
Nineteen novels, four years of publishing, and a decision to kill a character from the films in the opening book.