Star Wars: Darksaber - Hardcover

Anderson, Kevin J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593037677 ISBN 13: 9780593037676

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Luke Skywalker strives to help his love Callista regain her Jedi powers as the evil Hutts reconstruct a Death Star. The Jedi head for the ultimate test of their power - a test in which all the temptations of the dark side beckon.

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Review:

You know what they say: build a better a Death Star and the Hutts will beat a path to your door. Poor Bevel Lemelisk, the inventor of the Empire's signature moon-size battle station, has done just that, and now he's in the service of Durga the Hutt (only a marginal improvement over working for Emperor Palpatine, who was in the habit of gruesomely executing Lemelisk, only to recombobulate him into a newly cloned body).

It's eight years after the battle of Endor, and the Hutts are hoping to make a galactic power play using Lemelisk's latest project, a sort of cylindrical Death Star superlaser-on-steroids, dubbed Darksaber. But the newly empowered Rebels and the recovering Empire aren't sitting idle. As the book opens, Han and Luke are sneaking their way across Tatooine's Dune Sea, dressed in Tusken drag. Luke's looking to commune with Obi-Wan to learn how to save his Jedi squeeze, Callista, recently rescued from the innards of the ship computer on Palpatine's super-duper Star Destroyer. Meanwhile, the ranks of the Imperial Fleet swell under the charismatic Admiral Daala. Will Luke help Callista touch the Force again? Where will Daala's fleet strike a blow against the New Republic? Will Lemelisk's new invention hold together long enough to save his own hide? The skilled Kevin J. Anderson sure makes it fun to find out. --Paul Hughes

From the Publisher:

Rave reviews for previous Star Wars adventures:

"Anderson has all but assumed the title of Chancellor of Star Wars University."
-- Starlog

"Chock full of all the good stuff you've come to expect from a battle of good against evil."
-- Daily News, New York

About this edition

• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0593037677
• ISBN 13: 9780593037676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 419