Following in a grand tradition for Star Wars books, Del Rey, Lucasfilm and Disney have announced a new 40-story anthology which will explore the stories of background characters from A New Hope.
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Back in the old Expanded Universe books, this kind of ground was covered a lot by the “Tales From” series. Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales From Jabba’s Palace, and all the rest all did a similar thing, within a certain theme.
The new anthology is called Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, and it will feature 40 different authors and stories. Not everyone involved had been named yet, but here’s who is named in the announcement:
- Ben Acker & Ben Blacker
- Renee Ahdieh
- Tom Angleberger
- Meg Cabot
- Rae Carson
- Adam Christopher
- Zoraida Cordova
- Delilah S. Dawson
- Paul Dini
- Alexander Freed
- Jason Fry
- Christie Golden
- EK Johnston & Ashley Eckstein
- Paul Kemp
- Mur Lafferty
- Ken Liu
- Griffin McElroy
- John Jackson Miller
- Nnedi Okorafor
- Daniel José Older
- Mallory Ortberg
- Madeleine Roux
- Gary D. Schmidt
- Cavan Scott
- Sabaa Tahir
- Glen Weldon
- Chuck Wendig
- Gary Whitta
Sale of the anthology will also benefit First Book, a charity that provides materials to teachers serving communities in need. The book will be out in October, but in the meantime, we can re-watch A New Hope and make guesses about what character/location/situation each author is going to tackle.