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    Rogue Squadron: Star Wars: X-Wing

    Written by Michael A. Stackpole

    Narrated by Thomas Henry

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    They are sleek, swift, and deadly. The are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars!

    Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron, he seeks out only the best -- the most skilled, the most daring X-wing pilots. Through arduous training and dangerous missions, he weeds out the weak from the strong, assembling a group of hard-bitten warriors willing to fight, ready to die. Antilles knows the grim truth: that even with the best X-wing jockeys in the galaxy, many will not survive their near-suicidal missions. But when Rogue Squadron is ordered to assist in the assault on the heavily fortified Imperial stronghold of Black Moon, even the bravest must wonder if any at all will survive. . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 20, 2007
    ISBN9780553754360
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    Rogue Squadron: Star Wars: X-Wing
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    Michael A. Stackpole

    Michael A. Stackpole is an award-winning novelist, game designer, computer game designer, podcaster, screenwriter, and graphic novelist. He’s had more than forty-five novels published, the best known of those being the New York Times bestselling Star Wars books I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron. He has an asteroid named after him and, since undertaking to write Vol’jin: Shadows of the Horde, spends a lot of his spare time "leveling up!" 

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    • 4/5
      I'll agree with most of the other reviewers; the best bits of this book are the battle scenes, and in particular the strategic planning of these between Wedge, Ackbar, and General Salm.Corran, the main character, is probably the biggest minus--he's clearly wish-fulfillment for the author, and is very much a "Mary Sue"; he's invincible, cool, tough, the best pilot, etc. Tedious, really.As a fan of Star Wars, I think I really appreciated the bits of backstory that the Rogues themselves get as a unit--lots of mention of Biggs' background, and in particular the stuff that focused on Wedge was nice. Bottom line is that if you can get past Corran Horn, you'll like these okay.
    • 4/5
      The action scenes were great, but I could have done without the preaching about the deep meaning of their missions and respect for life and duty and freedom. Overall, it was intriguing enough for me to want to read at least one more book in the series.
    • 4/5
      Plot: Fairly typical team plot that in the second half turns into a mission plot. Good momentum and a good build-up of tension. At times it feels a little formulaic and it shows that Stackpole isn't new to this kind of book. Characters: The central character has barely enough flaws to not qualify as a Marty Stu, and is not particularly interesting in his personal quirks and conflicts. The side characters are a collection of steretypes whose interactions are interesting to watch. Style: Terrible writing when it comes to space fights. Reasonably authentic dialogue. The language is nothing extraordinary and occasionally too flat. What is missing is atmosphere. Plus: The beginning of a good series away from practically all known characters in the Star Wars universe, so it makes for a good starting point.Minus: The book doesn't capture the reader. Summary: Worth reading as a space opera, as is the rest of the series.
    • 4/5
      This is a book that does what it says on the tin, which is more impressive than you might think. My first flirtation with Star Wars tie-in novels was disappointing, despite the fact that I was ten years old and ready to like anything with Princess Leia on the cover. Unlike the novels that were such a mixed bag for my younger self, this series focuses in on new and secondary characters, rather than trying to ventriloquize the main characters. It also focuses on non-mystical adventures, rather than brainstorming new and kooky Force-related plots and villains to throw at Luke. In short, it's the Star Wars novel I should have been reading when I was ten, and it's still like stuffing my brain with caramel corn now.Beloved secondary character Commander Wedge Antilles ("Get clear, Wedge! You can't do any more good back there!") is one protagonist here, rebuilding the famous yet often ill-starred Rogue Squadron. The other main character is Corran Horn, a Corellian ex-cop and hotshot fighter pilot. Adventure! Dogfights! Strategy that actually makes sense! The new characters ring true to the universe and are easy to like, and the uneasy tensions within the Rebellion -- between races, between former members of Security Forces and the Imperial Military and shadier characters like smugglers -- are an interesting backdrop. The space battles are actually interesting, and the tactics are much more detailed and awesome than you could depict on film.Why only three and a half stars? There's a little clunk to the prose now and then, but it's not bad. Actually I docked it for two things: if you aren't very visual indeed, the dogfights will be a struggle to assimilate -- and there are a lot of them; and Corran's character arc in this book -- "Oh, I have to be a teamworker even though I'm a hotshot?" -- is a little infantile and yawnworthy, I found. Not an issue in the next book! (I told you, I'm inhaling these things like popcorn.)
    • 3/5
      The Emperor is dead, but the Empire remains. Wedge reforms Rogue Squadron, and Tycho Celchu and Corran Horn join. This is also our introduction to the evil Director Ysanne Isard and her underling, the calculating Kirtan Loor.

      I remember really liking the training sequences here, and because the cast is made of non-essential characters (by which I mean, not Luke, Leia, or Han), I genuinely worried about their fates.
    • 4/5
      Michael A. Stackpole’s Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron launched the X-Wing series of novels set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Bantam Spectra published this first novel in 1996 and introduced a new Rogue Squadron formed by Wedge Antilles while also introducing Corran Horn, Mirax Terrik, Erisi Dlarit, and Tycho Celchu. The book appeared six months after the first issue of Dark Horse Comics’ Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron comics, written by Stackpole and Darko Macan, and the subsequent 35 issues of the comic book series and first nine novels, which Stackpole and Aaron Allston wrote, help to expand on the events after Return of the Jedi while featuring the various Imperial warlords and skirmishes as the New Republic consolidated power that characterized the Bantam era of Star Wars fiction.The novel focuses on the recruitment of the new members of Rogue Squadron and their first missions, establishing a new base and helping to safeguard supplies as the New Republic moves closer to the galactic core. Further, Stackpole drops some hints that Corran Horn is Force-sensitive, such as when he instinctively knows something is wrong just before an Imperial ambush (pg. 189) and when he senses Lujayne Forge’s death (pgs. 195, 207). In this, Stackpole foreshadowed events that he would further develop in his 1998 novel, I, Jedi, which followed Horn’s quest to become a Jedi and was the first Star Wars novel written in the first-person. Stackpole also introduces Gavin Darklighter, the cousin of Luke Skywalker’s friend Biggs from Tatooine. Through Wedge and Gavin, Stackpole references the actions of the squadron in the Star Wars trilogy, with Gavin echoing Luke’s comment about Beggar’s Canyon (pg. 303) and Wedge echoing to Corran Luke’s order for Wedge to break off during the Death Star trench run (pg. 348). The remainder of the novel focuses on the New Republic’s efforts to attack and hold the Imperial stronghold on Borleais, laying the groundwork for a future invasion of Coruscant and future novels. In focusing on the political situation shortly after Return of the Jedi, Stackpole works to show that, while the galaxy at large viewed the Emperor’s death as the end of the Empire, there was work remaining, though it was more difficult to rally the fledgling New Republic and its allies without the imminent threat (pg. 66). Further, he shows the public perception of the Jedi eradication, with a character saying, “Vader was the last Jedi” (pg. 32). In order to situate his work between those already published, Stackpole references Kathy Tyers’ The Truce at Bakura (pg. 51) as well as the Katana fleet from Timothy Zahn’s Dark Force Rising (pgs. 68, 299).While Bantam published the original nine X-Wing novels between 1996-1999, Del Ray and LucasBooks published a tenth novel in 2012, set over thirty years later concurrent with the Fate of the Jedi series, specifically its final novel, Fate of the Jedi: Apocalpyse. Since the post-Disney continuity reboot, Disney-Lucasfilm Books began publishing the Alphabet Squadron trilogy in 2019 that are set in the same time period and fulfil a similar narrative purpose as the first nine X-Wing novels, though they incorporate material and references from films, television, video games, and novels in the new canon.
    • 3/5


      Based on all the previous good reviews I was anticipating a fun, fast, relentless read that would have me clamoring for more. I'm disappointed to the fact that I'm just glad the story is over. Bummed.
    • 4/5
      Sep10:Went way back to read these. Skipped them my first time through the Star Wars universe. Best part? Counting how many movie references. Friggin' 1 per page I swear.Characters: Good enough. The lead is solid enough if not super awesome. Wedge is well rounded for his parts. Villains are almost weak.Plot: A bunch of star fights dammit. Anything else?Style: Well done actually. This could have gone sooo wrong. And yet I actually enjoyed my read through due to brisk pacing and solid Style.

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