


Eight years after the final installment of the Star Wars trilogy, Zahn gave the franchise an infusion of spirit with new adventures and new characters. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to create. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire is perhaps the most influential science fiction novel ever written. In 1984, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novella. The biggest event in the history of Star Wars books, Heir to the Empire follows the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia after they led the Rebel Alliance to victory in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.įive years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins, and Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights.īut thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperorâ?s warlordsâ?the brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawnâ?has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. Timothy Zahn is the author of more than sixty novels, nearly ninety short stories and novelettes, and four short-fiction collections.

HTML:Here is a special edition 20th anniversary release of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel that reignited the entire Star Wars publishing phenomenonâ?unabridged for the first time. In just seven words, Ahsoka ’s first trailer made clear the.
