By: Dominic Jones
The official Star Wars Books Facebook page has posted a special mini excerpt from the upcoming novel Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne. The novel hits shelves on March 3rd and is Hearne's first Star Wars novel. Heir to the Jedi is a first person novel, told from the perspective of Luke Skywalker. It takes place between Episodes IV and V of the Star Wars saga.
Check out the except below,
When I’d first felt the Force on the Millennium Falcon, it had been
the barest tickle of a presence in my consciousness and in the air
around me that wasn't attributable to my five senses. Since then I had
reached out to the Force on numerous occasions, and each time it grew
marginally easier to make that contact
and feel the Force swirl and coalesce around me, a not-quite-tangible
but very real sensation, sort of like exercising and discovering over
time that the same routine requires less effort because your strength
and endurance have increased.
I didn't have any goal in mind other than increasing my awareness of
the Force; there were no vegetables or other objects to nudge around in
the cockpit, anyway, and I figured a greater grasp of the Force would
help me perform such tasks more quickly later on, and perhaps allow me
to move larger objects, or accomplish any number of other Jedi
exercises.
The streaming starlines of hyperspace were excellent
for clearing my mind. No distractions, just visual white noise. I
remembered training with the remote, wearing a helmet with the blast
shield down and feeling the Force as a power within and without that
worked with me and yet was not me. That had been a twinge, a tiny
awakening of a new part of my mind, like a half-glimpsed dawn through
sleep-encrusted eyes. I knew I wasn't fully awake yet; I think part of
me wanted to go back to sleep. But the dawn comes whether you sleep
through it or not, and I think the Force might be like that—always
there, but unseen until you make the effort.
My breathing slowed
and deepened, and soon I became aware that there were others breathing
on the ship. Drusil was nearest, sitting in an attitude of prayer or
perhaps meditation like myself, attempting to soothe away her worries.
Perhaps the activity of her mind was pure math. Farther back and to the
left, Nakari felt happy, though I didn't know about what. Her breath was
uneven and sort of purred—was she humming to herself? I couldn't hear
that to confirm...
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