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Summary: Good blend of stories!!!!!!!
Review: This was a great Star Wars book. It not only gave you a couple fantastic short stories by some of the best Sci-Fi writers, it also gave you 5 stories that can be grouped together and be made into 1 fabulous story. So both people who like a lot of short stories and people who like 1 big story could both enjoy this book
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Summary: Great Book for Sw fans
Review: This is a great book for Star Wars fans 'cause it gives you the bounty hunters' backgrounds. I think that in the Special Edition Trilogy, Boba Fett should give the OTHER bounty hunters(IG-88,Bossk,Dengar,Zuckuss & 4-LOM) a chance to be in the spotlight. The battle that takes place between Fett and IG-88 over Tatooine should also be in on of the SpecEd films
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Summary: StarWars fans must read this
Review: All I can say is I loved it. I like bounty hunters the best so this book was perfect for me
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Summary: Some stories great, some fair
Review: I loked some of the stories ( IG-88, Boba Fett, and Dengar) but couldn't stand the others. I would reccomend Shadows of the Empire before buying this book
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Summary: Bounty Hunters gets top ranking
Review: Tales of the Bounty Hunters is a great book for background information about the Star Wars Universe. Each of the short stories tells about a different bounty hunter, but parts of each story overlap with the other stories. By the time you have finished the book you have a carefully woven picture of bounty hunter life in the Star Wars Universe
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Summary: Would be a 5-star, if Bossk had had a story that made sense
Review: "Tales of the Bounty Hunters" turned out to be a lot better than I expected (I'm not the biggest fan of the bounty hunters). IG-88's story is great, especially when a human prevails over him, after all the talk about a secret droid galaxy-takeover. Dengar was seem as human, not a barely-human assassin. However, Bossk did not do well in this book: his story makes odd twists and turns, and really doesn't make much sense until the end, when you really wish that the author had not wasted their time with him. Boba Fett's story is pretty good, only at times, you might feel that you're reading a story with some pages or even chapters ripped out. (Elaboration is needed!) But definitely read this book, especially if you're wondering who the heck those guys were that Darth Vader tracked down to find Han Solo.
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Summary: Bounty Hunters: The Weak Link in the "Tales of" Series
Review: This book was quite disappointing. Anderson's first two forays as editor of the "Tales of" series of anthologies were complete triumphs. This third installment is the weakest link. The stories were average quality. The writers didn't seem to adhere to the same sort of quality control evident in the first two books.Of the five stories, only two were completely satisfying. Typically a fan of Anderson's _Star Wars_ fare, I was heavily disappointed by his tale of IG-88. Where some of the other stories in the other volumes have nicely woven their tales into the fabric of the films, this one seemed determined to dominate all three movies. Dengar's tale was quite interesting. The ending was not at all what I would have expected, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Bossk's tale was quite good, but the human-Wookiee pair seemed to be a bit of a Han-Chewie replacement, since they were off saving Leia from the Empire. Zuckuss and 4-LOM had a wonderful tale. The final story, that of Boba Fett, was well told, but the ending left an enormous quantity of unfinished story-telling.
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Summary: Dark side fun
Review: I like Kevin Anderson's Star Wars books. And this one is no exception. Good read particularly if you enjoy the darker sides of the Star Wars universe. If you're just a Star Wars movie fan these books will fill in some of the gaps about what the bounty hunters are and the adventures they go through.
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Summary: it all began here
Review: It was becuase of this book I started reading Star Wars. I saw a classmate in middleschool reading it and I knew I had to read it also. This one book started me on my Star Wars reading sage. Bounty Hunters rule! I also highly recommend Tales from the Mos Eisely Cantina and especially Tales from Jabbas Palace.
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Summary: Boba Fett emasculated....
Review: Upon purchasing "Tales of the Bounty Hunters" I had high hopes of it reaching the same heights of esteem that I hold the movies in for I have always found Boba Fett and his fellow bounty hunters fascinating and have always wanted to learn more about them. Unfortunately, not only did this collection of stories failed to do more than prove to be mildly entertaining, but it did far worse damage than I could have possibly foreseen.
It totally, utterly, and completely destroyed Boba Fett's coolness for now and evermore. Formerly standing as a silent, but grim and mysterious spectre of impending death on those poor hapless fools who had a bounty upon their heads, in "The Last One Standing" he was blasphemously transformed into a morally restrained and pious fairy that is more analogous to a justice delivering Mother Theresa armed with holy water blessed hand grenades than an amoral and cold blooded bounty hunter that had spilled the blood of hundreds. Perhaps this is why we were never allowed a glimpse behind the Mandalorian mask. The worst part of it was having to see what was formerly the second coolest character from Darth Vader righteously lecture Princess Leia on the evils of non-addictive substances like "spice" and premarital sex. Its difficult to believe that the coldest murderer in the galaxy that works for the most bloodthirsty crime lord Jabba the Hutt would be so scrupulous as to be outraged over minor drug use and individuals' personal sex lives. To make matters even worse, this hand wringing wimp even passes up a chance to use Princess Leia for his own private pleasures because he had vowed to live a pleasureless life of chastity. Thats right, you heard what I said. Boba Fett is a VIRGIN!!!
I should have known any book that advertised Kevin J. Anderson on the cover should be avoided at all costs.
That brings me to his pointless drivel that attempts to pass itself off as science fiction. "Therefore I Am" is a story about the assassin droid IG-88, a character that I thought would have had much potential in the hands of a better author. Too bad the story is more like a badly written version of something Stephen King would write. IG-88 is a product of a experiment gone disasterously wrong. Somehow he became sentient and able to override his programming, choosing to kill his creators and give sentience to 3 other droids of the same model by reprogramming them with himself. Then he goes on a rampage in an attempt to do one of the oldest and most cliched things in the world of science fiction, "The Matrix" and "Terminator" hold your breath: TAKE OVER THE GALAXY BY CREATING A MECHANOID REVOLUTION. Unfortunately, the story isn't even mildy entertaining as the overly pretentious Anderson starts out with big ideas and then fails to reach his high ambitions with ridiculous characters that couldn't pass off as anything but terrible attempts at comic relief and pointless villains that amount to absolutely nothing.
"Payback" proves to be much better with the scarred and nearly emotionless Dengar who ends up being a unique and interesting character.
"The Prize Pelt" is almost as good as expected and the main reason I read this book. It delves into the culture of the humanoid Trandoshans, giving interesting tidbits about their religion which demands of its members to slaughter those smelly Wookies and offer their hairy pelts to the Scorekeeper. Bossk ends up being the most interesting amoral bounty hunter yet encountered now that Boba Fett has been totally sissified.
"Of Possible Futures" would have to be the best story in this collection which came as a surprise for a quick summary of its characters sounded so drab that I almost skipped it. The main characters are Zuckuss and 4-LOM, the former a member of the Gand species and the latter a droid that is more human than human and who has aspirations toward becoming the first robot Jedi. "OF Possible Futures" was well written, with plenty of action, and credible characters.
"Tales of the Bounty Hunters" isn't really worth reading unless you are a hardcore Star Wars fan.
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