Aaron Allston

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Title: Solo Command (star Wars X-wing): Description:
The seventh title in the "Star Wars: X-Wing" series. From the Back Cover Wraith Squadron: they are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the first in battle, the last line of defence. Now they must find and destroy a wily enemy more powerful than the Empire itself. X-WING SOLO COMMAND Their covert mission has been a success. The enemy has been vanquished. Or so they thought. The Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist somehow escaped destruction and with it the New Republic's greatest threat, the infamous warlord Zsinj. To defeat him, Wraith Squadron must join a combat task force led by the only man crafty enough to beat Zsinj at his own game: Han Solo. But Zsinj knows the X-wing fighters' indomitable courage is both their greatest strength - and their greatest weakness. For even against the most overwhelming odds, the Rebels will fight to the death. And that will leave Zsinj the galaxy's unchallenged master! About the Author Aaron AllstonAaron Allston is an award-winning games designer and author. He has written eleven science fiction/fantasy novels including four for the popular X-Wing series, Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command and Starfighters of Adumar. He lives in Roundrock, Texas.

Title: Enemy Lines: Rebel Stand Vol 2 (star Wars: The New Jedi Order): Description:
The second of a mass-market original duology charting the reaction of the New Republic to the conquest of its capital world, Coruscant, at the hands of the alien invaders called the Yuuzhan Vong. With so many worlds fallen to the invaders, and the hunt for the Jedi still on, Luke, Mara, Han and Leia are hanging on in the eye of the storm, trying to hold their galaxy together. This adventure includes major storylines for favourite characters such as Wedge Antilles. From the Publisher The eight mass-market paperback original and #11 overall in our classic Star Wars spin-off series, THE NEW JEDI ORDER. This is the first of a duology of military and political action-adventure. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. About the Author Aaron Allston was an editor of Space Gamer magazine, which won the H. G. Wells Award for Best Role-Playing Magazine in 1982. Allston later became a freelance game designer, working for Hero Games and Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR. He is the author of Web of Danger, game-based fiction supporting the Top Secret/S.I. game line, as well as the original fantasy Galatea in 2-D. He now writes fiction full-time. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Title: Wraith Squadron (star Wars X-wing): Description:
The Wraith Squadron is a bold creation: a unit of X-wing fighters made up of the dregs of other units, giving castoffs and rejects one last chance. But before the pilots can complete their training, the squadron's base is attacked. Wraith Squadron must rise to the challenge, or face instant death. From the Back Cover They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing pilots risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission - as the crew of an Imperial warship. X-WING WRAITH SQUADRON It is Wedge Antilles' boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron's base is attacked by former Imperial Admiral Trigit, and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into action - taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew. The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit's secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral's plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. But the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron's ragtag renegades against the Empire's brilliant master of guile and deception. Are they up to the challenge? If not, the penalty is instant death. About the Author Aaron AllstonAaron Allston is an award-winning games designer and author. He has written eleven science fiction/fantasy novels including four for the popular X-Wing series, Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command and Starfighters of Adumar. He lives in Roundrock, Texas.

Title: Star Wars: X-wing Book 6: The Iron Fist: Description:
This tale of fighter pilots is the sixth in the "Star Wars: X-Wing" series. From the Back Cover They are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force - sleek, swift and deadly. For these X-wing fighters, no job is too dirty or too dangerous. Now they must rise to meet an impossible challenge: stop a powerful warlord by pretending to be his ally. X-WING IRON FIST Against all odds, the controversial Wraith Squadron has survived its first covert mission. But now they are called upon to cheat death twice. This time Wedge Antilles sends them in to stop the warlord Zsinj and his Super Star Destroyer, Iron Fist. If Zsinj joins the Empire, it could turn the tide of war against the Rebels. The Wraith Squadron's mission: infiltrate the warlord's fleet and uncover his carefully guarded plans. To do so, they must pose as ruthless pirates seeking to join Zsinj's forces. And that means first becoming pirates in space lanes teeming with Imperial Navy patrols. If that isn't enough to get them killed, they have to pass one last test - a suicide mission for Zsinj. Can they survive the test and turn the tables on Zsinj? Or is this the end for Wraith Squadron? About the Author Aaron AllstonAaron Allston is an award-winning games designer and author. He has written eleven science fiction/fantasy novels including four for the popular X-Wing series, Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command and Starfighters of Adumar. He lives in Roundrock, Texas.

Title: Starfighters Of Adumar (star Wars X-wing): Description:
The world of Adumar has decided to pick a side in the war to control the galaxy. Delegates from both the New Republic and the Empire have been invited to Adumar to plead their case. But a rogue Republic agent is determined to win Adumar's allegiance, even if it costs the X-wing pilots their lives. From the Back Cover The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more hazardous than all-out combat... X-WING STARFIGHTERS OF ADUMAR The neutral world of Adumar has decided to pick a side in the war to control the galaxy. Delegates from both the New Republic and the Empire have been invited to Adumar, and each camp will be given a chance to plead its government's case. But there is one small catch: since the Adumari prize military skill above all else, they insist that both delegations be composed exclusively of fighter pilots. For pilot Wedge Antilles and his compnay, it's an unfamiliar exercise in diplomacy - and one that's filled with unexpected peril. For once they arrive, the X-wing pilots are challenged by Adumar's fierce warriors and attacked by Imperial assassins bent on eliminating all competition. But these challenges pale in comparison to the threat posed by a rogue Republic agent...one who is determined to win Adumar's allegiance once and for all - even if it costs the X-wing pilots their lives. About the Author Aaron AllstonAaron Allston is an award-winning games designer and author. He has written eleven science fiction/fantasy novels including four for the popular X-Wing series, Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command and Starfighters of Adumar. He lives in Roundrock, Texas.

Title: Star Wars : Rebel Dream: Description:
Scattering after the Yuuzhan Vong's invasion of Coruscant, the panic-stricken members of the New Republic Advisory Council pause just long enough to set up a mock defense on nearby Borleias - an attempt to buy time that fools no one, least of all the Jedi. Leia and Han Solo travel from world to world to foment rebellion against the New Republic's disastrous appeasement policies. But Luke Skywalker has chosen the most dangerous assignment of all: the sneak into the Yuuzhan Vong's stronghold on Coruscant. His outrageous scheme to gain entry is either brilliant or suicidal, depending on the outcome. Bearing down swiftly on Borleias is a Yuuzhan Vong invasion fleet, determined to destroy the galaxy's remaining defenders... From the Publisher The eight mass-market paperback original and #11 overall in our classic Star Wars spin-off series, THE NEW JEDI ORDER. This is the first of a duology of military and political action-adventure. About the Author Aaron Allston is the popular author of earlier Star Wars novels in the X-wing series.

Title: Exile (star Wars: Legacy Of The Force): Description:
This fourth volume in the Legacy of the Force series brings us now to near mid-point in the planned nine-volume series and leaves us in much the same spot as we were at the end volume three, with all the major heroes and villains having had another go at one another without serious injury, death, or development of plot. Now on the run from both The Galactic Alliance and Corellia, the exiled Han and Leia Solo seek the aid and assistance of Lando Calrissian, who joins his old friends in disguise as owners of a gambling and pleasure ship. Together they arrange GA license to operate in Corellian space, where they sit, watch, and wait for the disfigured and deranged Twilek, Alema Rar. Back from his own exile is Chis pilot Jagged Fel, whose personal mission dovetails nicely with Han and Leia's and who under Luke's orders is assigned to work with Jaina and Zekk to capture or destroy the former Dark Nester and agent of the series' arch villain, Lumiya. Jacen, meanwhile, sends Ben on a mission to test his cousin's suitability as a Sith apprentice, a mission that ends with Ben stranded on the ancient Sith home world of Ziost fighting for physical survival. While Ben struggles to balance the imperative of his mission with the Jedi imperative to protect life, other worlds join Corellia in seceding from the GA, widening the potential conflict and setting up Exile's final scene, in which Jacen infiltrates a meeting to elect a military commander for the newly christened Corellian Confederation That particular mission turns rather predictably to failure, an end clumsily telegraphed to any reader passingly familiar with action/adventure/fantasy fiction, in which the details of military plans are glossed to preserve suspense for the actual battle scenes. Here, though, author Aaron Allston lays out the entire scheme, a clear sign that the plan is not what it seems - or will very quickly be made moot once the action starts. Authorial ruse was evident as well in Jacen's insistence that he himself act as the spy at the election meeting when under circumstances not dictated by the need to maneuver the characters Jacen would have sent a less noticeable agent. Allston also treats us to some spiffy new technology, including a device that delivers an electric shock to transfer short-term memories to long-term memory, effectively short-circuiting Alema Rar's ability to erase her presence from the minds of those who have seen her. As electric shock has in the real world been found to cause memory loss, we're left to wonder is this idea is based on anything but imagination. Still now we don't know exactly what caused the rift between the GA and its member worlds, except for some vague pronouncements, provided in Exile from Leia, that the conflict between the GA and Corellia was the "inevitable conclusion of their respective political directions." Read into that whatever you will. The authors are not likely to provide anything more. About the only things noteworthy in Exile, besides a few good one-liners, are Allston's revival of the "Sword of the Jedi" prophecy, foreshadowing Jaina's return to center stage (and her possible role as Jacen's foil), as well as his Solo-Skywalker thesis, that the universe has been kept whole only because these families have worked in concert. The corollary, of course, is that the universe is now going to pot because this alliance has been fractured and its members now set against each other. If the Legacy series continues as it has thus far developed, the Solo-Skywalker thesis will probably not be explored in future volumes, although the title for the upcoming fifth volume, Sacrifice, and the announcement of Jacen's Sith name, suggest author Karen Traviss may be giving us something more than another predictable battle-royale.

Title: Betrayal (star Wars: Legacy Of The Force): Description:
“[Betrayal] blasts off a new string of adventures starring beloved Star Wars familiars . . . this new installment should please Star Wars fans.”–Publishers WeeklyHonor and duty collide with friendship and blood ties as the Skywalker and Solo clans find themselves on opposing sides of an explosive conflict.When a mission to uncover an illegal missile factory on the planet Adumar ends in a violent ambush–from which Jedi Knight Jacen Solo and his protégé and cousin, Ben Skywalker, narrowly escape with their lives–it’s the most alarming evidence yet that political unrest is threatening to ignite into total rebellion. The specter of full-scale war looms between a growing cadre of defiant planets and the Galactic Alliance that some fear is becoming a new Empire. Determined to root out those behind the mayhem, Jacen follows a trail of cryptic clues to a rendezvous with the most shocking of revelations. Meanwhile Luke grapples with something even more troubling: dream visions of a shadowy figure whose Force power and ruthlessness remind him of Darth Vader. If Luke’s visions come to pass, they will bring untold pain to the Jedi Master . . . and to the galaxy.