Tatooine Ghost: Star Wars Legends
Random House Inc (Verlag)
978-0-345-45669-4 (ISBN)
SPECIAL BONUS INSIDE-the exclusive story "A Forest Apart," previously available in e-book format only!Han and Leia struggle to keep the Empire at bay as stunning revelations from the past threaten to eclipse the future of the New Republic. . . .The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine by no means spelled the end of the Empire. In the aftermath, the New Republic has faced a constant struggle to survive. Now a new threat looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian art-lost after the planet's destruction-has resurfaced on the black market. It conceals a vital secret-the code used to communicate with New Republic agents undercover within the Empire. Discovery by Imperial forces would spell disaster. The only option is recovery-and Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate the auction.When a dispute at the auction erupts into violence, the painting vanishes in the chaos. Han and Leia are thrust into a desperate race to reclaim it. As they battle against marauding TIE fighters, encroaching stormtroopers, and Tatooine's savage Tusken Raiders, Leia's emotional struggle over the specter of her infamous father culminates in the discovery of an extraordinary link to the past. And as long-buried secrets at last emerge, she faces a moment of reckoning that will forever alter her destiny . . . and that of the New Republic.
Troy Denning wurde 1958 geboren und hat sich auch als Spiele-Entwickler und -Designer einen Namen gemacht, ehe er zu schreiben begann, wobei der größte Teil seiner Romane in den "Forgotten Realms" angesiedelt ist. Mittlerweile hat er jedoch auch bereits ein knappes halbes Dutzend Star-Wars-Romane verfasst. Er lebt in Wisconsin, und wenn er nicht an neuen Abenteuern von Luke Skywalker und seinen Freunden schreibt, bewegt er sich gerne in der freien Natur oder praktiziert verschiedene Kampfsportarten.
Tatooine GhostChapter 1Instead of bed, where she usually awoke from her dreams, Leia found herself slumped forward in her crash webbing, ears hissing with static and eyes aching from the glare of two G-class suns. Han and Chewbacca were still busy at their stations, Han plotting approach vectors and Chewbacca setting sensor filters. The planet Tatooine was just drifting into view, its yellow sodium-rich sands glowing so brightly it resembled a small sibling star in orbit around the big twins.A metallic hand tapped Leia's shoulder. She turned to see C-3PO's photoreceptors shining at her from the adjacent passen- ger seat."Pardon me for asking, Princess Leia, but are you well?""Don't I look well?""Oh dear," C-3PO replied, a diplomatic subroutine activating in response to her tone of voice. "Why yes, you do look as splendid as ever, but it seemed for a moment as though you might have overloaded your primary circuits.""My circuits are fine.""I'll need to confirm that later." Han twisted around and glanced over his seat with the same crooked smile that had alternately charmed and worried Leia since their first meeting on the Death Star. "Princess.""Oh, really?" Leia straightened herself in her chair without fully realizing she was doing it. With his tough-guy good looks and eyes sparkling with trouble, Han still made her sit up and take notice. "And you think you can read my schematics?""Sweetheart, I know your schematics by heart." Han's smile faded, and his expression grew concerned. "Threepio's right. You look like you've seen a ghost.""Something like that. A bad dream."Han looked doubtful. "I've sat in that chair. That chair isn't comfortable enough for dreams-good or bad.""It's been a long trip," Leia said, perhaps a little too quickly. "I must have nodded off."Han regarded her a moment longer, then shrugged. "Well, see if you can stay awake." He looked forward again, to where the twin suns were slowly being eclipsed by Tatooine's steadily swelling disk. "Until the sensors come up, we need to keep an eye out for other traffic."Leia gazed out the canopy and began to search for the rapidly swelling silhouette of blocked starlight that would mean an approaching vessel. Her thoughts remained focused on the strange dream. It had a similar feel to the Force-vision she had experienced nearly five years earlier at Bakura, when her father had sent an apparition begging for the forgiveness she would never-could never-grant. But that had been his doing, not hers.Han's hand rose into view between the pilot and copilot's seats, pointing toward a blocky silhouette floating some distance to one side of Tatooine's yellow disk. The twin suns were now completely hidden behind the planet, and Leia could see that the tiny silhouette was growing larger as they approached. It seemed to be staying in the same place relative to Tatooine, deliberately hanging in the shadow of the planet."That's too square to be a moon," Han said."And it's no asteroid, not hanging in one place like that," Leia added. "But at least it doesn't seem to be coming our way.""Yet," Han replied. "How about those filters, Chewie?"An impatient rumble suggested that the Wookiee was still struggling with the filters. Anyone else might have been frightened, but Leia found the groan reassuring, a touch of the familiar in a time of shifting alliances and random annihilation. When she had married Han six months ago, she had known Chewbacca would be an honorary member of their family, and that was fine with her. Over the years she had come to think of the Wookiee as something of a furry big brother, always loyal to Han and protective of her, and now she could not hear him growl without feeling that she lived in a safer place, that with Chewbacca and Luke and Han-when he was in the mood-and millions of others like them, the New R
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.12.2003 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Lucas Books, A Del Rey Book |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 105 x 169 mm |
| Gewicht | 255 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch | |
| Schlagworte | Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen • Englisch; Science Fiction/Fantasy |
| ISBN-10 | 0-345-45669-6 / 0345456696 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-345-45669-4 / 9780345456694 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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