I just want to stress that while I understand how many fans feel, I came to this book without reading a *single* one in the previous expanded universe.
There were a lot of good books written in the original universe and people were unhappy that those stories were not canon anymore. Moreover I would love to see more of it, not less, in the next books.Īpparently there was also a controversy about people being unhappy that Disney decided to reboot the franchise and start the story anew. I thought the introduction of LGBT people was extremely well done, personally. He has a brief memory flash to “both his fathers” being killed. Oh, and the sister of another female protagonist is married to a woman and they are briefly shown in the story, because they are relevant, and there is the boy in the orphanage who hopes to be adopted. That would be the “in your face, explicit introduction of homosexual agenda” – three or four lines. Do you know what this “explicit introduction” entailed? The hero telling a woman that he is not into women when she flirted a little bit with him in between them doing other stuff. Of course I had to go read those reviews on Amazon and yes, I found many along the lines of these “omg, why did the gay need to be explicitly introduced”. At the same time I enjoy scifi and I enjoy action/adventure, so I decided that a “Star Wars” book would be a better choice for me to sample your writing.īut even more importantly I saw the mention of your book on File 770, specifically the controversy over those reviews which were, amongst other things, not happy with the book’s gay protagonist and I thought – *sign me up*. I have wanted to try your writing for a while, but I usually avoid stories which are marketed as being in the horror genre, and I got an impression that this is what you mainly write. But they haven’t reckoned on Norra and her newfound allies-her technical-genius son, a Zabrak bounty hunter, and a reprobate Imperial defector-who are prepared to do whatever they must to end the Empire’s oppressive reign once and for all. What she doesn’t know is just how close the enemy is-or how decisive and dangerous her new mission will be.ĭetermined to preserve the Empire’s power, the surviving Imperial elite are converging on Akiva for a top-secret emergency summit-to consolidate their forces and rally for a counterstrike. But when Norra intercepts Wedge Antilles’s urgent distress call, she realizes her time as a freedom fighter is not yet over. Meanwhile, on the planet’s surface, former rebel fighter Norra Wexley has returned to her native world-war weary, ready to reunite with her estranged son, and eager to build a new life in some distant place. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but he’s taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy’s strength is unfolding.
But the battle for freedom is far from over.Īs the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance-now a fledgling New Republic-presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy’s scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate.
Devastating blows against the Empire, and major victories for the Rebel Alliance. The second Death Star has been destroyed, the Emperor killed, and Darth Vader struck down. Sirius C Reviews LGBTQIA+ / scifi / space opera / Star Wars 8 Comments SeptemREVIEW: Aftermath: Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Chuck Wendig