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[beatrice_otter]

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WHY has nobody ever told me that some genius composed a score to the Zahn trilogy of Star Wars novels? This is amazing, and wonderful!

Also, given that this exists, and that the audiobooks use music, why didn’t they pay this guy for the rights to use his stuff instead of slapping music from the OT in at random? Here’s an example: there’s a scene of an Imperial admiral reminiscing about how awesome the Imperial Navy used to be and how great a tragedy the battle of Endor was. They used the Binary Suns theme (you know, part of Luke’s hero music!) as the soundtrack for this, which is highly inappropriate.

If you are a Star Wars fan and have never read/listened to the Zahn trilogy (AKA the Thrawn trilogy, composed of Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command), you are missing out and should do that IMMEDIATELY. Yes, it’s part of the old EU, and is no longer canon, but it is imho by far the best piece of tie in media ever produced for Star Wars. Timothy Zahn has the OT cast note-perfect, I can hear them speak their lines all through the book, and that book taught me a LOT about the craft of writing, and especially writing villains.

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[princessofgeeks]

I read one book years ago and your posts make me realize I need to read it again and get the other two.

[beatrice_otter]

Zahn does such a good job of writing a villain who is believably a genius--we're not just told he's brilliant tactically, we're shown it in a lot of ways, large and small--while still making it believable when the good guys beat him in the end.