QUOTE (Radu094 @ Jun 23 2004, 06:06 AM)
Hey.. no prob... I'm willing!!
Can you give me a few titles from him to start reading?
The Star Wars EU trilogy by Zahn is as follows:
Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and
The Last Command. He also has a second two-parter SW series that ties in with this earlier trilogy.
If you want to get a little taste of Zahn in Star Wars, check out the short story collections by Bantam. I think that Zahn did several stories for those. Especially reccommended Star Wars short story collections are
Tales from the Empire and
Tales from the New Republic. They deal with several time spans and a lot of different things. For one of them, Steve Zahn and um... Michael Stackpole (I think) collaborated on a novella that takes place in the Corellian underworld, with a young Corellian police officer trying to take down a sadistic criminal. That one was pretty good.
BTW, in the EU the cloning devices are called Spaarti cloning cylinders. They can pop out a fully-matured clone in a relatively short span of time, but if done too quickly, the clone can become highly unstable and unhinged mentally. This is a major plot point in the
Heir to the Empire book, as the remnants of the Empire take on the aid of an insane clone of a Jedi Master who was murdered and then duplicated by Palpatine.