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Summary: Top Notch Star Wars
Review: I've always loved the Star Wars short story collections, and this one is no exception. Very fun, very interesting. I particularly liked the Garm Bel Iblis background story, 'Interlude at Darkknell', and 'Simple Tricks' which featured Kyp Durron. Very satisfactory!
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Summary: Buy With Your Eyes Open
Review: If you are like me when a new Star Wars book appears you buy it. There have been other "Tales From, Tales Of" all of which are better than this particular group of stories. The other collections dealt with characters that were either known to the Star Wars Fan, or could be placed in context once the story had begun. I believe this was very well done with "Tales From Jabba's Palace". Even if a specific character went barely noticed or even unnoticed, the events allowed you to re-experience familiar events from characters that were present at an event, although they played no known role in it from the point of view of the moviegoer. Previous short story collections gave you the ability to listen in through a variety of characters. And if you were not looking through another's eyes at a familiar event, the story was still tied to familiar places, known characters, and time frames. I read all of these books as they generally are quite good, and fill in bits of History that were never shown in the movies. After the book is read, the movie can again be viewed and there are a whole new group of characters you "know" from a story in their life. There is a teaser at the top of the cover that speaks of a short novel by Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole. However you only have to get to "The Foreword and Acknowledgements" to learn these stories, with the Zahn/Stackpole exception, were put together after, and primarily from contributions to "the now-defunct Official Star Wars Adventure Journal". To be fair, some stories are taken from the role-playing games, so those stories may appeal to the Role Playing Gamer. Yes there are some references to places and people that are familiar, but they are generally a few words that clue the reader as to when a particular story is happening, and in some stories, remind the reader where he/she is supposed to be. The exception to this is the short novel produced by the two mentioned Star Wars Authors. If you like to read about Star Wars and need a book to hold you over to the next full-length book, buy this with modest expectations. Actually most fans, will find something they like but will not come away thrilled. The Collection can be enjoyed, just moderate your expectations and do not let 2 familiar names guide you as to the quality of this particular collection.
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Summary: Non-stop behind the scenes action!
Review: In this book, a collection of stories that range from the main stream story line to the unexpected reaches of imagination and fantasy in the fringes of the Star Wars galaxy, you will find useful information in already written and talked about stories, such as Kyp Durron's redemption, Ysanne Isard's rise to power in the new order, Hal and Corran Horn in their CorSec days, and so forth. Beautifully written and perfectly put together, this new masterpiece of Star Wars history takes readers on a ride to adventure, excitement, love, betrayel, and all that good stuff we've come to love in every single new adition to the saga. With supreme work by Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole, this is a must have for all Star Wars Fans, as well as the newcomers into the fascinating experience from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
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Summary: This is a pretty good book and has a great cover
Review: Tales from the New Republic is a collection of entertaining short stories. The first one Interlude at Draknell is about Hal Horn,Garm Bel Iblis and Yasanne Issard all trying to track down the this thief who has stolen plans about the death star. Overall Good story with great chrachters. The second story Jade solitire is a good tale of Mara Jade in action. Gathering shadows is a story about two tortured Prisoners trying to live. Very dark and depressing but the story is first rate and the chrarchters are ones you can route for. Hutt and seek is about two con women delivring slave girls to the hutts it is quite funny. The worst fall a tale about a man being strangled by a dark jedi.Did not see the point of this story. Conflict of interest probaly the best story of the bunch where it portrays both sides of a conflict and you understand all the charachters and sympathise with them.And makes the reader wonder today when we get involved in forieghn disputes and conflicts weather it is any off our business. No Disinmtigrations please Plot is not brilliant or intriging but it is enjayble and fun anyway because its about Bobba Fett taking on a Imperial Garrisson for a bounty. Day of the sepulchral night is probaly the worst tale and was to be honest boring. Uhl eharl khoehng great tale but sad and dark as well but the only gripe have with this is that it makes the conflict between DARTH VADER THE Emperor and Luke skywalker and there strengths and powers E.G the Emperors lightning bolts SMALL belittled and tame. The last Hand an enjayble tale about a gambler and his friend who are trying to get a lightsaber. The last story features Kyp Durron (never liked that chrachter but this story actually makes him semi likable) and the two con women. Again its enjayble. And any way did not Yoda say to luke that he was the last Jedi.
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Summary: A Variety of Perspectives on the SW Universe
Review: Tales of the New Republic is to my mind the very best of the "Tales" compilations. The stories in this book all fall in the "New Republic" era. The characters include a favorite from the movies (Boba Fett), many of the most fascinating characters from previous novels, (Talon Karrde, Mara Jade, Garm Bel Iblis), and some very interesting new additions. _Tales_ will immediately interest readers familiar with Zahn's work and the X wing books; the contributions by Tim Zahn and Mike Stackpole are up to their usual standard. But the stories here are also accessible to readers new to Star Wars books, and some of the best work here is by writers new to the Star Wars universe. I especially enjoy this short story format, which lets me read about a wide variety of characters and situations. I want more Tales!
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Summary: A Variety of Perspectives on the SW Universe
Review: Tales of the New Republic is to my mind the very best of the "Tales" compilations. The stories in this book all fall in the "New Republic" era. The characters include a favorite from the movies (Boba Fett), many of the most fascinating characters from previous novels, (Talon Karrde, Mara Jade, Garm Bel Iblis), and some very interesting new additions. _Tales_ will immediately interest readers familiar with Zahn's work and the X wing books; the contributions by Tim Zahn and Mike Stackpole are up to their usual standard. But the stories here are also accessible to readers new to Star Wars books, and some of the best work here is by writers new to the Star Wars universe. I especially enjoy this short story format, which lets me read about a wide variety of characters and situations. I want more Tales!
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Summary: More Tales for your enjoyment
Review: The "Tales" series has always been a good standby to Star Wars readers, either for those who are waiting for the latest hardcover entry to come out, or want a glimpse at what goes on at the other end of the cantina while Han shot Greedo. KJA's 1st three volumes were good, but Tales from the empire was met with mixed reviews. Tales from the new republic is no different. While I personally enjoyed the majority of the stories in Tales from the empire, the same can not be said for this edition. Simply put, the stories are not that easy to get into this time around. The alien names are getting stranger, and the more complex they are to pronounce, the less I want to get into a story with them involved. The Mara Jade and Boba Fett stories were good, but not great. Furthermore, they are all taken from various periods in Star Wars chrnology, and not just the new republic era. While I have great respect for the works of Zahn and Stackpole, I also found it rather difficult to read their 4-part mini-novel. Overall, this is another hit/miss novel, with several good stories and some mediocre ones. But, still another good way to spend an hour lost in the fantasy sci-fi world of Star Wars
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Summary: Not as exciting as Star Trek
Review: The book Star Wars: Tales From The New Republic is not exciting as a Star trek novel because the characters are not well known; the places are unfamiliar; and the story ends without explaining how this helps the Star Wars storyline. AsI've counted, the stories are about twenty to thirty pages long so they are never very long. The authors give you a crash course on what's happening at the time and never tell when the story is taking place. On the first story, however, I do know when it is happening because they reveal the plans as being the second Death Star plans. But no where else in the book does it even give a hint of when the story is taking is taking place in Star Wars. The places are very unfamiliar in the book because they never explain the precise location of it. They say, for example, in the Darkknell System. But where is the Darkknell System? Is it near Endor or Coruscant? I can't tell where it is. The Star Wars storyline is never consistant in this book. How? Well, the regular characters are shown every once in a while. But, in the second story for example, who is Mara? And what is her relation to Luke Skywalker, the regular to whom she keeps refering? Is she a student, a lover, or just a friend? I don't know that, either. So I say, the next time they compile stories about the New Republic, they should try to have it make sense. That is the reason I feel it is jusified to give this book 3 stars, I wouldn't give it anymore because of the serious inconsistancies.
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Summary: Pretty good but I've seen better ones
Review: This a great collection of stories, most of them so good that they compensate for the more less bad ones. Most of them you can not but the book down, but there are a couple of ones that made me bored and sleepy. But after all it is a really good book. There are better ones but there are also a lot of worst StarWars books.
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Summary: One of the weaker Star Wars books
Review: This book is by far the weakest of the "Tales" Series. It is a collection of short stories that each follow one character through a series of events. Unfortunately, most of the characters seem poorly developed and the stories just plain aren't as interesting as in the others from this series. If you are still in the mood for some short stories that follow Star Wars, buy Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina, or Tales from Jabba's Palace instead.
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