Heir to the Empire by Timothy ZahnMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A nice edition for Star Wars Expanded Universe fans. The commentary by Zahn and his editor, Betsy Wolheim, is very enlightening as to the process of writing in the GFFA versus general sci-fi and the particular challenges that arose from writing the first post-ROTJ novel. Somewhat incidentally to this particular edition, the story itself is still quite good and a very compelling read even after two decades of other SW novels.
I'm only disappointed that similar follow-up volumes of Dark Force Rising and The Last Command are not planned. It would be nice to see some of the thoughts that Zahn expressed here about the structure of the trilogy come to full closure in the later two volumes.
Definitely worth a read (or re-read) for Star Wars EU fans.
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