By: Dominic Jones
The official Del Rey Star Wars Books Facebook Page reached 150,000 likes today and to celebrate they released an excerpt from Kevin Hearne's upcoming novel Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi. The novel is slated for a January 2015 release. Heir to the Jedi is set between Episodes IV and V and is a first person novel, written from the point of view of Luke Skywalker.
Check out the excerpt below,
There’s no one around to answer all
my questions now that Ben’s gone. It’s a stark fact that continually
reasserts itself each time I wonder what I’m supposed to do now. That
brown robe he wore might as well have been made of pure mystery; he
clothed himself in it and then left nothing else behind on the Death
Star. I know Han likes to scoff at the idea of the Force, but when a
man’s body simply disappears at the touch of a lightsaber, that’s more
than “simple tricks and nonsense.”
And I know the Force is real. I’ve felt it.
I still feel it, actually, but I think it’s like knowing there’s something hidden in the sand while you’re skimming above it. You see ripples on the surface, hints that something is moving down there—maybe something small, maybe something huge—living a completely different life out of your sight. And going after it to see what’s underneath the surface might be safe and rewarding, or it might be the last thing you ever do. I need someone to tell me when to dive into those ripples and when to back off.
I thought I heard Ben’s voice a couple of times during the Battle of Yavin, but I’m wondering now if that really happened. Maybe I only thought it did; maybe that was my subconscious speaking to me—a kind of wishful thinking. He’s been silent since, and I don’t feel I can talk to anyone else about the Force. My confidants at this point consist of one blue and white astromech droid.
From all of us here at the SWU, congrats to the team at Star Wars Books on reaching 150,000 likes!
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