Is Satan building a snowman?

[zouzounaki]

Because I'm actually enjoying a Star Wars EU book. I learned, back when prequel material started coming out, that it really is preferable when the book focuses on OCs instead of the canon characters, just because there's less room for major fuck ups. And that the non-post-ROTJ are not quite as aggravating with the continEUity. So I went into Death Troopers with this in mind. Also keeping in mind that it's Stromtroopers and zombies. Stormtroopers and zombies, people! How could it go wrong?! I'm half way through it and unfortunately, the only way it has gone wrong is with the predictability of who is going to die, and it makes me sad because I like the character who is all but a walking target.

Han and Chewie. Billed as "surprise cameos," but so far, they're really involved in the story! Chewbacca probably has more to do, and more character development, than he ever got in the post-ROTJ books (which led to his lamentable demise). Maybe it'll start sucking, who's to say? But for now, pretty awesome. Hey, it's zombies! In the Star Wars universe!

Peace, Ghani

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It always makes me laugh because the authors, especially Zahn, had just become so used to the idea that they were Star Wars for such a long time. Zahn is an unremarkable, typical sci-fi author who would probably not have half the reputation he does if he hadn't released tie-in novels at a time when people were just looking to pick star Wars up again. In other words, he got lucky, and people confuse their nostalgia for actual awesomeness.

What I liked about this book was that... it wasn't done by a Star Wars author, for a start. Also, totally not concerned with continuity, with the movies or the other books. Han and Chewie's appearance didn't explain why he had to dump Jabba's spice shipment or any of a thousand different crappy things I thought he might throw in. He didn't instantly fall in love with the lady doctor (or really even... notice she was female other than the original observation), he didn't bond with the kid. They were all just... characters. It's sorta... what I always wanted for them books and very, very, very rarely got.

Takes off in huge part on Romero's Day of the Dead. That'll give you some idea! So, yeah, totally pleasantly surprised!

Snerk, you know, the Doctor Who authors are the same way, and they just can't deal with the fact that the show came back on the air. About a year before it was announced that the show was returning, one of the authors was quoted as saying that fans should just appreciate what they have, which is the books, and stop whining about the show, because we're never going to get that again; they were the future of Doctor Who. Ahahahahaha! Yeah, the remind me of the Star Wars authors all right.