Book Review: Star Wars: Rogue Planet
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I was a naughty pre-teen and ordered a bunch of books from a mail-order book catalog using my mom's checkbook and information1. One of those books was a Star Wars book called Rogue Planet by Greg Bear, set a few years after The Phantom Menace. I have only vague memories of reading it. A few impressions of scenes, a general vibe, but not much else.
I reread it last week, and it was a lot of fun. Fast paced, well written (Bear is an award-winning science fiction author), and just generally easy to read. I wasn't entirely a fan of the way Obi-Wan Kenobi was characterized, but it was written before Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were made, so not a big issue. There were a lot of things, actually, that contradicted the later movies and shows (both Lucas and Disney), such as who designed the Death Star, but they weren't so canon-breaking as to be unenjoyable anyway. But it was interesting to see what the author was trying to do with his limited knowledge of Anakin's trajectory and the arc of Republic > Empire.
It also had some of the very first threads that later led to The New Jedi Order series, which I hadn't realized.
Overall, 4 out of 5 stars.
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She doesn't remember this. I've talked with her a couple of times in the last few years about it, and she has literally no memory of it, which I find incredibly funny because I consider it my most naughty childhood action.↩