As is our custom, we wrap up with a brief discussion about what we’ve learned here from this book, then dive into some good old fashioned listener Q&A before announcing […]

Time to wrap this baby up!  And how?  Why obviously with a bunch more descriptions of Admiral Daala’s famous hair!  Also the Sun Crusher, while not yet crushing suns, is […]

Just when Han is about to get out the Maw, Luke and Lando are dragging us back in!  Meanwhile, how come Leia doesn’t have a staff?  She apparently has an […]

Two stereotypes for the price of one!  It’s time to meet Qwi Xux, a sexy anime scientist who… doesn’t see the moral concerns in building devastating superweapons yet.  Luke and […]

Fully half the book before we met Daala, but boy oh boy does she ever make an impression (on herself).  We’ll have a lot to say about her and her […]

Okay first of all this is chapters 15-17.  Jef is easily confused.  Han, Chewie and Kyp mount a daring escape while Leia keeps track of Luke’s new Jedi candidates, and […]

The time has come to meet Jedi candidate number two!  Streen is a classic “psychic trying to find quiet in a world full of noisy thinkers” archetype, and to get […]

Lando is off on a quest to investigate a gambler.  He will have to go to a gambling place where there is gambling.  Hey, what do we know about this […]

Who wants to meet Kyp Durron?  No one?  Too bad!  Also Luke faces Gantoris’ lethal “tests” while Lando shows up, hat in hand, hoping for a handout of something to […]

Aw shoot last week we thought we got all the boring intro chapters, but here we are dealing with Leia’s story startup for the episode!  Should have guessed!  Anyway, Han […]

You knew we’d cover one of this guy’s books eventually, and here we are!  This trilogy features the introductions of known series players like Nataasi Daala and Kyp “White Space […]