I’m not a big fan of short story collections or Star Wars novels. But I loved Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View. It’s a collection of 40 stories offering unique points of view surrounding the original Star Wars: A New Hope movie.
The stories offer glimpses of the main characters—Luke, Leia, Han Solo, Obi-Wan, Darth Vader, etc.—and even some dialogue straight from the movie, but mostly we’re following the stories not told in the movie:
- How the Imperial gunner who didn’t fire on the escape pod with no lifeforms used bureaucratic paperwork to cover his ass.
- An excerpt from the celebrity memoir of one of the Cantina band performers.
- The untold story of what really happened with the red R2 unit that Uncle Owen almost bought instead of R2-D2.
- The harrowing saga of how the trash compactor monster came to be on the Death Star and the larger role it had to play.
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