Timothy Zahn - Allegiance

Pros: Interesting story, moral theme, decent action.
Cons: Too much focus on Zahn's own characters, not enough on the classic ones.

Talk about being in the right place at the right time. During the summer of 1977, I had the good fortune to be 13 years old. Thirteen, of course, is a magical age, that age betwixt the wonder of childhood and the dawn of emerging adolescence. A time when ...

Pros: Good writing, fine characterizations, and another masterful tale set in the Star Wars galaxy
Cons: None

Although Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn has written over 90 short stories, novellas, short story collections and novels since 1978, he is best known for reinvigorating the Star Wars literary universe with his best-selling Thrawn ...

Pros: Wonderful character work, exciting plot, intelligent stormtroopers!
Cons: A couple of niggling disappointments

Timothy Zahn is famous for being the father of the Star Wars "Expanded Universe" with his original Thrawn trilogy way back in the early 90s. He's mostly kept to that part of the universe until he wrote < b>Outbound ...

Pros: Exciting action sequences. Fast and easy read. Interesting comparison to modern events.
Cons: Lazy writing during key plot points. Movie characters take a backseat.

It's always interesting to imagine the untold aspects of our favorite stories. When you have a series of films like the Star Wars movies, there is plenty of past and future that we never hear about. While some of the gaps were filled in by the ...

Pros: Intriguing, new ideas, great personalities, dynamite plot
Cons: Original Star Wars characters not prominent 

      They all believed in the Empire at first, but now…they’re not so certain…not after being forced to kill innocent civilians.   Daric Larone, Saberan Marcross, Taxtro Grave, Brightwater, and Joak ...

Pros: Excellent dialogue,suspense and seeing the story thru the characters eyes.
Cons: nothing

Out of all the authors that have written Star Wars novels there are two authors that I love the most that make me keep coming back to read the Star Wars books and Timothy Zahn is one of those authors. He has written over 90 works ranging from shorts ...