Fang Zei said:
What did George think of the Thrawn trilogy? Obviously he gave the OK for post-Jedi stories to be told, and I remember hearing about how he liked the Dark Empire comic.*
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*Although, Dark Empire contains one of the three big post-Jedi EU things that George said never happened in that now infamous quote.
Liking a story and considering it "real" aren't necessarily synonymous.