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A review by bcgoakander
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back by Elizabeth Schaefer
4.0
Honestly, if you love Star Wars, fuckn Worth It. I had this on hold because Martha Wells and Hank Green were contributors, but I undersold myself emotionally there because I love Star Wars and it had me by the balls immediately. I bought this book's equivalent New Hope collection and can't wait to share it with my family.
These stories gave me even more richness and depth to a story I've loved for a long time. Most of them are excellent and complex, adding rich layers of human perspective to the Empire v Subjugate context; very few are forgettable; and the rest are embellishments delicious in scope upon the people and plots we have known so well for so long.
The story of the Wampa who attacks Luke is an excellent example: the Wampa is given a digestibly relatable backstory, justifying his actions in Episode 7, but nonetheless providing a rigorous and fascinating planetary ecological history to Hoth at the moment of its discovery.
There are naturalists, farmers, wranglers, runner boys, generals, pilots, droids, and Tauntauns who contribute in the first act of the book to a greater and more in-depth analysis of the planet Hoth as well as the Rebellion's evacuation thereof. It expands from there to sentient asteroid worms, interplanetary casinos, TIE pilots, and even the ancient wisdom of Dagobah's trees.
I loved it and can't wait for more.
These stories gave me even more richness and depth to a story I've loved for a long time. Most of them are excellent and complex, adding rich layers of human perspective to the Empire v Subjugate context; very few are forgettable; and the rest are embellishments delicious in scope upon the people and plots we have known so well for so long.
The story of the Wampa who attacks Luke is an excellent example: the Wampa is given a digestibly relatable backstory, justifying his actions in Episode 7, but nonetheless providing a rigorous and fascinating planetary ecological history to Hoth at the moment of its discovery.
There are naturalists, farmers, wranglers, runner boys, generals, pilots, droids, and Tauntauns who contribute in the first act of the book to a greater and more in-depth analysis of the planet Hoth as well as the Rebellion's evacuation thereof. It expands from there to sentient asteroid worms, interplanetary casinos, TIE pilots, and even the ancient wisdom of Dagobah's trees.
I loved it and can't wait for more.