A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Cover art by Drew Struzan. © 1992 Bantam Skylark and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) If you have ever been a regular reader of non-canon fiction based on a motion picture or television franchise, you've probably noticed that the quality of the writing tends to be uneven. I ought to know; I've been reading novels and other literary works (short stories, comic books, and reference books) set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universes, and I've run across some stinkers in both. Most of the Star Wars stinkers that I've read are aimed at the general reading audience - ages 12 and up; that is the demographic that most readers belong to, including me. They also were published as part of the old  Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU), or what the Lucasfilm Story Group now calls Star Wars Legends, and include stories told in the following formats: Novels ( The New Rebellion, almost any book written by Kevin J. Anderson, The Crystal Star ) Comics/Graphic Novels ( Dark Empire trilogy) Y...