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A review by timgrubbs
From a Certain Point of View by Elizabeth Schaefer
5.0
Tales from a New Hope…
From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) was a new experiment in anthologies to take advantage of the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie. I’d say it worked out.
I’ll admit this anthology is not as strong as the others. The stories are shorter, there are several minor figures I expected them to cover that they left out, and the writing didn’t seem as focused.
However, without this, we wouldn’t have had the other two volumes in this series…
I suggest checking it out…and learn the stories of lesser known figures as it relates to the new canon.
I didn’t have a specific new story…other than an interesting yarn about an admin official that explains away why they didn’t just blow away the escape pod (and it wasn’t because of the price of a single laser).
Some of the stories also work in the relatively fresh Rogue One movie and those connections to various new hope characters…
From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) was a new experiment in anthologies to take advantage of the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie. I’d say it worked out.
I’ll admit this anthology is not as strong as the others. The stories are shorter, there are several minor figures I expected them to cover that they left out, and the writing didn’t seem as focused.
However, without this, we wouldn’t have had the other two volumes in this series…
I suggest checking it out…and learn the stories of lesser known figures as it relates to the new canon.
I didn’t have a specific new story…other than an interesting yarn about an admin official that explains away why they didn’t just blow away the escape pod (and it wasn’t because of the price of a single laser).
Some of the stories also work in the relatively fresh Rogue One movie and those connections to various new hope characters…