![]() Zahn, who wrote the best-selling Thrawn Trilogy ( Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, Star Wars: Dark Force Rising and Star Wars: The Last Command) in the early 1990s and kicked off the Expanded Universe series, has a set of uncanny writing abilities and techniques that make him on of the few superstars in the pantheon of Star Wars novelists. ![]() One of the best Star Wars writers, Timothy Zahn, is one of those writers who can slyly turn a seemingly trivial "historical reference" or a bit of dialogue in one or two novels, then develop those into larger and complex stories later on. This technique isn't exclusive to the Lucasfilm-licensed Star Wars projects Paramount's Star Trek franchise has published hundreds of paperback and hardcover novels which not only tell "untold tales" of the famous starships Enterprise and their legendary crews, but also have their own internal - if somewhat looser - sense of continuity by the use of characters that appear only in the novels and not in the TV shows or feature films. If you are a more-or-less regular reader of the Bantam Spectra/Del Rey Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, you're doubtlessly aware that though each novel or series of novels is pretty much a stand-alone work, it's also part of a larger mosaic. There are many instances in which a minor character, planet, or even old pre-Empire projects mentioned in one book will later play a larger role in the continuing Star Wars narrative.
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