I have no desire to squelch it either, and while yes, this is the place where such concerns can be brought to the VIPs attention, it is NOT the place for the fans themselves to debate the topic in depth. It will only clog the thread, and it is a good way for spoilers to start leaking into the wrong thread. I bought Street of Shadows 2 days ago and look forward to reading it, but it won't be a for a while because of a massive backlog of other SW novels, and thus, I don't want to know anything about it. Look above my post to see other people talking about Vader's actions in the book. This is not the place for that.


I think your opinion, like my opinion, is not necessarily fact. Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, the authors included, and if LFL didn't filter them out of the novel in the first place, then evidently they don't much care. It can certainly be brought up here with the VIPs to see if that's the case, as it has been, but if you want to discuss it in depth, again, the novel has it's own thread.

If there isn't already a thread about it (do a search to see), you could even start a whole new thread singularly about authorial religious/political perspective showing through in writing if you wanted to.

I will rabily consume every vader tale I can get. However, I think in a fairly short amount of time they have shown him getting his but handed to him several times. That in itself wouldn't be a problem, so long as they also demonstrate his power. If they don't, in some books to come, they will be belittling what we have all thought of him over the years.

To that point, I think most would be pretty happy how vader deals with a couple of other characters in Coruscant nights II. I think in the two short stories at the end of the Betrayal paperback are also very good.

Well said, Jedifirefly!

Of course, now I can't get the picture of Vader as Charlie Brown out of my head! :O

• In depth discussion of Street of Shadows

should continue in it's own thread, and I'm sure
there's a religious debate in the Cantina. :)*

These are comments that are intended to be read by the VIPs, are they not? I have no desire to squelch this topic of conversation just because it isn't interesting to you. I think the various Lucasfilm Powers That Be have a right to know when they are allowing their authors to be offensive or stupid.

In depth discussion of Street of Shadows should continue in it's own thread, and I'm sure there's a religious debate in the Cantina.

That aside, my sole complaint is that the author takes a few less-than-subtle potshots at the Judeo-Christian creationist POV.

Which is kind of a funny thing to put in a book about a universe that heavily features a mysterious force with a will of it's own that made it's own virgin-born child...

<.< whistles

• As some have mentioned, there are several erroneous

dates running throughout the narrative, e.g., the
Clone Wars taking place 20 years prior, when it's
more like three or four. Mistakes happen. I imagine
it'll be corrected in the second edition (and
hopefully before the Sci-Fi Book Club omnibus is
released).*

I may wait for the second edition, then. The same thing happened when they referenced the Great Hyperspace War and somehow got it confused with the Stark Hyperspace War. I don't hold with the notion that authors ought to be fans, but I do think that fans should be employed to catch things like this. After all, they have the ability to hire people to do online articles; they could certainly hire someone to read through a manuscript looking for continuity gaffs the same way people look for punctuation and internal consistency.

Sue,

Long time reader here. Love the organization and effort put into the novels these days! I know you all work very hard, and it shows.

One complaint though. I didn't start reading the Legacy of the Force until it was just about finished, and I'd like to tell you why it took me so long. Back during the holidays I picked up the latest paperback at the bookstore, and out of curiosity I read the back of Inferno. At the top of it reads:

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Inferno spoiler

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"....Instead his wife, Mara, lies dead..."

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end spoiler

Out of anger, I put the book back where I found it, and I am just now reading the LotF.

My question, Who writes the synopses on the backs of the books?

****Possible Coruscant Nights 2 Street of Shadows SPOILERS... ****

Hey Sue - I know you said you were on vacation, but just wanted to throw this out there...

Coruscant Nights 2. There are quite a few errors/continuity issues that are rather glaring. First, the mention of the Battle of Drongar being 20 years before, when it was only supposed to be like 2-3, I believe. Also, Captain Typho discovers that Sidious was on Mustafar when Anakin and Padme were there, and somehow he automatically assumes it was Vader, when there was no mention of him before this. I believe there are a few others, but I just wanted to ask your take on this. Was it just a few honest mistakes or was this a dramatic rewrite of the new timeline? I suspect the former, but just wanted to know. Michael Reaves posted on the force.net saying it was mainly due to his health issues and medication. Not sure if this was really him or not, just got me curious...

****END SPOILERS****

Howdy Sue--what are the odds of seeing additional installments to the Coruscant Nights series after +Patterns of Force+?