I remember when this book first came out. We were starved for Star Wars books, and this delivered in spades. Heir to the Empire had whet our appetites, and the Rogue Squadron Series gave us what we wanted. Star Wars that didn't depend upon the big names to be interesting.
I always wanted to see a Heir to the Empire movie or a TV series based on the Rogue Squadron. Sadly, we never got them.
Great series. Characters grow, characters go, characters fly, characters die. Just because you're a named character doesn't mean you necessarily have plot armor.
Still annoyed that they canceled the Rogue Squadron movie, I would've really liked to see how much of this series they worked into it.
Wedge is my favorite character of all time. To me, he is really the model of how a military officer should conduct him or herself, and I tried to model my behavior on him in my short career. I think the late Aaron Allston's Starfighters of Adumar is the best portrayal of the character if anyone wants more of him. It's a great fun and more profound than you'd think from a little Star Wars milSF novel. More speech-makers should use the Antilles Five-step Instant Speech, it would save a lot of everyone's time.
The old covers are so much better than the recent re-releases by Disney (they do understand the concept of profit occasionally, it seems)! They seem like the kind of art a unit would have at their HQ.
I remember when this book first came out. We were starved for Star Wars books, and this delivered in spades. Heir to the Empire had whet our appetites, and the Rogue Squadron Series gave us what we wanted. Star Wars that didn't depend upon the big names to be interesting.
I always wanted to see a Heir to the Empire movie or a TV series based on the Rogue Squadron. Sadly, we never got them.
Great series. Characters grow, characters go, characters fly, characters die. Just because you're a named character doesn't mean you necessarily have plot armor.
Still annoyed that they canceled the Rogue Squadron movie, I would've really liked to see how much of this series they worked into it.
I know it tends to be an unpopular opinion, but I think the Special Editions of the original trilogy are what sparked the downfall.
Wedge is my favorite character of all time. To me, he is really the model of how a military officer should conduct him or herself, and I tried to model my behavior on him in my short career. I think the late Aaron Allston's Starfighters of Adumar is the best portrayal of the character if anyone wants more of him. It's a great fun and more profound than you'd think from a little Star Wars milSF novel. More speech-makers should use the Antilles Five-step Instant Speech, it would save a lot of everyone's time.
The old covers are so much better than the recent re-releases by Disney (they do understand the concept of profit occasionally, it seems)! They seem like the kind of art a unit would have at their HQ.