![]() ![]() ![]() Echoing Timothy Zahn, Stackpole nicely peppers in some political stuff unlike in the first novel, a main movie character - Princess Leia - joins the action. We get more of the Mirax-Corran-Erisi love triangle, more of the mystery of whether or not Tycho is a traitor (it feels like he isn’t, yet the raw facts say he is), and some of the most horrific scenes in “Star Wars” fiction as General Derricote devises a way to infect all alien species with the Krytos virus so the Rebels inherit a poisoned planet.Īlso, this is a pivotal novel in the timeline, as it marks the point that the Republic takes over Coruscant from the Empire, a huge step in legitimizing the provisional government and inspiring more planets to defect from the tyrannical Empire. And even if this is technically outside of the pilots’ skill sets, no reader - except those rare few who like their books to read like video games - was complaining.Ī step up from the solid introductory book, “Wedge’s Gamble” is meticulously plotted with gripping character arcs smoothly intertwined. Here, the members of Rogue Squadron spend more time as undercover operatives on Imperial Center than they do in space dogfights. With “Wedge’s Gamble” (1996), the second book in the “X-Wing” series, Michael Stackpole may have inadvertently inspired Aaron Allston to create Wraith Squadron three books later. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |