At times, it’s like Star Wars doing Star Trek, though Light of the Jedi still delivers a Death Star-level blast of Star Wars mythos. As Jedi and Republic officers jump into first responder mode and then hunt down the perpetrators of the “Great Disaster” in pulpy, potboiler fashion, The High Republic takes a giant leap away from the familiar.
Soule’s Light of the Jedi does very little expositional work to make sense of its setting instead, the book opens on a ticking clock and in a portion of this world that very well might be destroyed. The best sci-fi books of 2020 to catch up with this year
There’s a sense that thousands of years of cultural and political history have preceded the action of the current moment. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire tomes, they wield the same instinct for history. Certainly with too much confidence.) While none of the titles match the literary density and description of George R.R. This is the Galactic Republic as a spacefaring Roman Empire - unified, idealistic, and expanding its reaches to the furthest points of space. The Light of the Jedi, along with The High Republic launch books A Test of Courage and Marvel’s The High Republic comic, not only drop readers into a temporal variant of Star Wars, but what feels like an entirely new civilization. Between Disney Plus series, comics, video games, and publishing efforts pushing with equal force on canon, Star Wars is the Expanded Universe.Īnd the release of Charles Soule’s new novel Light of the Jedi kicks off the mega-property’s most advantageous experiment: The establishment of The High Republic, a prequel-to-the-prequel era that allows a new batch of Star Wars writers to do whatever the heck they want, with no chance of impacting Luke Skywalker’s journey.
But in the post-Skywalker Saga era, it means something decidedly more. Star Wars is famous for its “Expanded Universe,” a suite of multimedia that exists to serve the franchise’s blockbuster movies.
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