Okay, the Lensmen reaction I was talking about on March 26th isn’t happening. It’s simply been too long since I read the books for me to reconstruct a meaningful reaction out of my half-baked notes. Some day, when I read those books again, this reaction will be properly completed. For now, it will be naught but a place-holder.
In April and May of last year I got pumped up on Star Wars for the first time in years as a result of a blessed conjunction: Not only did I obtain the original versions of the original trilogy in widescreen, but I also watched the gloriously entertaining Clone Wars animated series. “Oh yeah,” I thought. “I remember why I love Star Wars.”
So, in preparation for Revenge of the Sith, I tackled a plethora of Star Wars tie-in fiction. These are the subject of the next six What I’m Reading, at which point the archives will be complete and you’ll start seeing new WIR material appearing on these pages:
40. Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy – Timothy Zahn
41. Star Wars: Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy – Michael P. Kube-McDowell
42. Star Wars: The New Rebellion – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
As a lifelong Star Wars fan and a more recent fan of yours, I have been enjoying these old Star Wars reviews of books I read over 20 years ago. A few times you mention that this was in anticipation of the upcoming Revenge of the Sith. I can say with complete certainty that Revenge of the Sith came out in May of 2005 (I went to a 20th Anniversary screening this year), while these reviews are dated April 2006. The first one I ignored as a simple error, but seeing the mistake multiple times I wanted to give a heads-up that some of the dates on articles of yore may be off.