# Are any of the Star Wars novels any good?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 4, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-of-the-star-wars-novels-any-good/283085 "2005-01-04T21:21:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-of-the-star-wars-novels-any-good/283085/41 "2005-01-06T03:03:22Z")

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> [@SPOOFE](#):
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> I absolutely hated **The Bounty Hunter Wars**. The one dude that had his upper torso replaced with a heavy blaster was fucking awesome, but beyond that we had two stories: One in which we see that Boba Fett is apparently clairvoyant and foresaw the actions he’d undertake years prior and set up an “out” for it, and another in which _absolutely nothing happens_. Yeah, the instigating spark for the whole series of books, that causes this entire galaxy-spanning mystery, turned out to be NOTHING.
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> Fett flying a Star Destroyer was pretty cool, though.

The barving _Bounty Hunter_ series barving sucked. The barving plot made no barving sense, and the only barving thing I barving cared about was barving finding out who the barve was barving Nela.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-of-the-star-wars-novels-any-good/283085/42 "2005-01-06T03:29:52Z")

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> [@Master Wang-Ka](#):
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> I also rather liked the Brian Daley \*Han Solo \* novels, although they’re so removed from the \*Star Wars \* universe that they’re nearly generic. They’re a fun read, though.

So, if Lucas got a chance to rewrite _Han Solo at Star’s End_, how would the “Ask Rekkon” airlock scene go? Would there be a Greedo shot?

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**Author:** ![scule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@scule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scule)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-of-the-star-wars-novels-any-good/283085/43 "2005-01-06T14:24:53Z")

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> [@Kaspar Hauser](#):
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> Have you tried the comics? A lot of them are pretty good, especially **Star Wars Tales**.

I never really enjoyed comic books much when I was younger (actually, the only ones I ever read were Star Wars ones, but that’s at least 20 years ago). Can’t see myself getting in to them now. But maybe I’ll try.

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