C3PX said:

I too have been interested in reading the later books by Timothy Zahn, but haven't made up my mind to do so yet. Pollard's post has definitely piqued my interest. How about Zahn's latest Star Wars book, Allegiance? Has anyone read that?

The one written as a love letter to those nerds that dress up as stormtroopers, the mighty 501st?

The one Zahn stuck Pink Five into.

It is a decent novel but like all Zahn's books after the trilogy not very good.

I mean if the hand of thrawn duology was any hint at to how much suck the rest of his novels would be in comparison to the first 3. That coming from someone who has enjoyed all of his novels including vision of the future.

The stormtroopers are not really bad guys kind of angle is kind of typical of the pathetic modern EU mindset of moral ambiguity.

Incorporating prequel trilogy stuff is a mistake the writers should be able to write their own better prequels and pretend those bad lucash ones don't exist.

These days if you want to escape the bad prequels and clone wars in the EU forget about it as they have now tied all new novels into that crap and stiffled the writers creativity.

Now you can't branch off the oot and read post jedi novels without references to Hayden Skywalker and co and their supposed real backstory of star wars.