A review by lordenglishssbm
Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry

1.0

In the prologue of this book a character refers to the emperor as the guy who was formerly "Senator Palpatine." The book was written in 1996, and the edition I read said that it was the unaltered text. Since Phantom Menace came out in 1999, this means that either Lucas already knew Palpatine's backstory or he liked the idea so much he canonized it.

Sadly, the prose is so godawful that I couldn't make it more than a few chapters into the book.