The SW novelization established that the SW Galaxy was a modest-sized galaxy (ie. small-to-average).
One of these days I should actually sit down and read my first-edition paperbacks of the novelizations that have just been lying around collecting dust.
I feel like every several months there’s another crazy thing from them I’m finding out for the first time and being incredulous about.
Anyway, the neighborhood is having a yard sale next Saturday and I’ve been going through my books on the off chance anyone’s going to want them for a dollar each. I’m getting rid of my paperbacks of the six clone wars (little c, little w) novels, originally published from mid '03 to late '04, which I’m never reading again anyway. There’s also my mass market paperback of Heir to the Empire from 1992 that I feel somewhat of an inclination to hold on to for whatever reason, and my mass markets of Dark Force Rising (from years later) which I never finished, and The Last Command which I never even got to.
I’m also slightly conflicted about getting rid of my Vector Prime hardcover, complete with a crease down the jacket spine that I’d see on every used copy, if for no other reason than its historic place in the old EU, what with Chewie’s death and all. Then there’s darktide: onslaught and my paperback of Balance Point, both of which I actually read, and the Jedi Eclipse duology that I got brand new double-discounted but never got around to (it was one of those later paperback copies where they actually print the discount you’re getting right there at the top of the cover, and this was at a b dalton’s going-out-of-business sale so it was even further discounted). I was smart enough to stop there regarding the NJO, never even got dark tide: ruin.
Then there’s odds and ends like my paperback of Tatooine Ghost I never got around to either. Noticing a trend here?
Ah, then there’s the prequel novelizations, all of which I’ve read. Still have my TPM hardback with the Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon cover, and the latter two are in paperback. I’ll probably hold on to the A.C. Crispin Han Solo trilogy since I’ve never read it and it might be interesting to compare the upcoming standalone movie against. Shadows of the Empire paperback, might keep it out of nostalgia but should probably get rid of it.
My 90’s paperback of Splinter with the GL intro will stay, as will the aforementioned first-edition OT novelizations.
Then there’s my collection of Star Wars comics from '03 to '07 (don’t worry, it’s well under a box’s worth) that I might look up to check the value of but will probably hold on to in the vain hope they’ll be worth something someday. I mean, that’s whay you’re supposed to do with comics, right?