I’m gonna have to get my hands on that to go with my Luke and Mara two pack I picked up last year.
Holy crap.
An updated Thrawn finally!!! I still have the original from 95 or so. I’m not much of a SW toy collector, But I always grab all the EU toys. Heh, it used to be that I was able to save money by only focusing on the EU, but with EU figures the last few years I have been struggling to keep up.
Thanks for the heads up Rowan. 
Okay, so I bought Heir To The Empire along with Invincible (which gets priority for the moment) recently. I’ll be getting around to it soon.
Actually, the more I think about it, I’ve probably already read this somewhere along the line. Ah well, I hardly remember anything from it, so it’ll practically be a fresh read.
Be sure to pick up Dark Force Rising and The Last Command. Those are the titles of the other two books in TTT.
…It’s five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy…
So begins the description of the highly acclaimed, Heir to the Empire. Please share your thoughts, reactions and reviews of the book here.
This thread will contain spoilers. If you have not finished the book, proceed at your own risk
All,
Heir to the Empire has been selected as the August 2008 Book Club book. Please continue all conversations here
This should be interesting 
Though I went to get the book at the library today, and their copy was missing! So now I have to wait for another library to send it… alas.
Can we discuss the whole trilogy or just Heir?
Good question GR…I would say just Heir. I suspect people are going to start campaigning for the next books in the series.
I’m certain about that. Anyone who finishes Heir is bound to pick up the other two books.
Well, there’s not much to say about Heir, it sets up the best story of the EU in my mind. What a pity it wasn’t made into movies.
Well it’s kind of a no brainier to finish the series off. A few of us were toying around with starting SW book club and this was going to be the first SW series to read.
I’ve read the first few chapters. I forgot what an excellent writter Zahn is. I love the opening scene with Thrawn in his second command Chamber and Luke’s final encounter with Obi-Wan.
Oh hell yeah, Thrawn is one of the best characters in the entire Star Wars universe. And in a way, he’s a much more menacing figure than Vader or the Emperor because Thrawn knows what he’s doing.
GR, I agree and disagree. People voted on this book, not the trilogy. Asking someone to read 600-900 pages is a big ask.
I recommend starting a “Thrawn Trilogy” thread over in the open group read section, that way people who want to read all three can discuss the series there, and those who want to participate in the discussion but don’t want to be spoiled can talk in here.
Make sense?
Good idea. Personally I’m planning to re-read the whole trilogy anyway.
So me, Wally and the Beave can at least discuss the whole thing.
All I meant was that I’m sure many people who finish Heir are likely to go on reading the other two books because they’ll be intrigued by the story and will want to know what happens next. It was a general statement, not actually pertaining to how we shoudl handle discussion in this thread.
I recommend starting a “Thrawn Trilogy” thread over in the open group read section
There already exists such a thread over there and I’d ecourage everybody to talk there too!
I read the books when they first came out in the 90s. I am not sure how much I remember from then. I wish I knew we were going to do this book. I would have done my “homework” before going back to work.
Just assign the book for your class to read. That will give you an excuse to re-read them. 
YAY!!! I lurve the Thrawn books. I mean how many amazing characters came out of this book/series? Mara Jade, Talon Karrde, Thrawn, Gilad Pellaeon, The Noghri, the Vornskrs, the Ysalamiri, the Chiss…so many more! So many characters that will fill out the EU in all of the coming books etc.
I seriously need to dig this book back out and re-love it.
I read Ender’s Game with a class when I taught English. Wow how could I fit it into History? Well it did happen a long long time ago. 