Anchorhead said:
My favorite(s) are The Han Solo Adventures by Brian Daley. They're well written, very interesting, have that depth of character & atmosphere, that attention to scene detail that Daley was so good at - and - they're free of the burden of all the stuff that is just so fucking tired to me about Star Wars, i.e. The Empire, The Sith, Vader, R2, 3PO, etc. There is just so much more that can be done with the vast, dark, unknown universe we were introduced to in 1977. Brian Daley did it with these three novels.
**Its been so long since i had seen the ads for the Han Solo books and with so much focus on the Jedi since I had completely forgotten the possibilities until a couple of months ago i saw a painting by a comic artist (Adam Hughes I believe) showing Han Solo and Chewbacca circa 77 that made me think they could have just as easily spun off the movies into something about Han Solo or something entirely different.
It was a unique position since Star Trek and most film science fiction was grounded by Earth links while SW was completely free of such restraints to the imagination.