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i had no expectations whatsoever for "bug" and it was gripping and thrilling and might actually be my favorite of this collection? good fucking job, e. anne convery and good fucking job, catherine taber

highlights: "bug," obviously, as well as "kenobi's shadow," "dark vengeance," "dooku captured," "pursuit of peace" (which has pacing problems but makes up for it with padmé characterization)

"the lost nightsister" and "almost a jedi" are good but not as exceptional as i found the above. yoda's vision at the end of "sharing the same face" was very compelling and left me shaken, but the rest of the story was only serviceable -- it tries hard but is not super interesting or insightful in its portrayal of yoda, the clones, or the force. "bane's story" is well-done, i guess, but i don't like the hardeen arc (it feels... juvenile and contrived, as i think i've complained before) and i'm not interested in bane's pov thereof, plus the processing on bane's voice is too much for 40 entire minutes and i think bane also wasn't quite well-established enough character-wise for both angleberger and burton to convincingly maintain his "voice" for that long.

lowlights: "the shadow of umbara" and "hostage crisis," which don't really bring anything new to the table, they're just a pretty direct retelling of the events. now, i don't give a shit about the episode "hostage crisis," either, beyond how annoyed it makes me about the anakin/padmé relationship, but this is especially disappointing for the umbara arc, which is easily one of the best stories tcw told and which rips my heart out of my chest and stomps on it just to think about it -- and i didn't get any of that here. it's rushed, for sure, forced to condense four emotionally intense episodes into one short story, but rex's pov of umbara (or anyone's pov of umbara tbh; fives or dogma would be equally interesting to read) should be devastating and it just... doesn't get there.

overall this collection was a fun listen and one that was well worth joining an additional library for (i mean, beyond all the inherent benefits of library membership). i don't completely agree with all the characterizations presented, but that's also true of fanfiction and hasn't stopped me reading yet. i wonder if the jarringly-specific namedropping of vehicles and weapons were some kind of requirement for merchandising? it threw me out of the stories every single time it happened, although i think it enhanced the dooku story in the end, if not any of the others. would i listen to it again? maybe one or two of the better stories but certainly not most of them. maybe "dark vengeance" again before i return it there's just Something about witwer's maul voice

#thinky thoughts #sigma reads #sigma watches tcw #stories of light and dark #may the force be with you

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rebelsofshield · 4 years

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark- Review

One incredible story is not enough to make this mostly uninspired Clone Wars themed anthology worth picking up.

(Review contains minor spoilers)

It’s been a big year for The Clone Wars. Twelve years after the cult favorite animated series started, it finally came to a conclusion earlier this spring on Disney+. Lucasfilm Publishing smartly capitalized off the hype for this long awaited finale with an anthology comic series released through IDW Publishing and a young reader collection of short fiction, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Stories of Light and Dark.

On paper, the idea of a collection of short stories centered on the heroes and villains of The Clone Wars sounds incredible. I personally love short stories and From A Certain Point of View was maybe the most creative Star Wars book of the last decade. (I can’t wait for its sequel this November.) The talent assembled for this project is similarly impressive. You have veteran Star Wars writers like Jason Fry, Zoraida Cordova, and Rebecca Roanhorse alongside standout science fiction and fantasy writers such as Yoon Ha Lee and young adult stars like Sarah Beth Durst and Preeti Chhibber .

It’s disappointing then that Star Wars: The Clone Wars Stories of Light and Dark feels like a mostly phoned in endeavor. The editorial decision to make each story a retelling of an existing episode of the television series does a lot to hamper creativity to begin with. Rather than finding new tales to tell with these iconic and beloved characters, the writing talent assembled is forced to recant existing narratives and hopefully inject some life into them in the process.

The level of creativity in tackling this limiting editorial decision varies from writer to writer. Lou Anders, Tom Angleberger, and Rebecca Roanhorse opt to tell their stories in the voice of their characters through smart uses of first person point of view. Anders manages to inject his take on “Dooku Captured” and “The Gungan General” with the indignant haughtiness that made the series’ take on the Count Dooku so fun. Angleberger and Roanhorse have their characters (Bane and Maul respectively) recount their stories to another character and it’s fun just seeing the inner monologues of these different villains.

Others opt for more direct rewriting of their assigned episodes. These by and large make up the more boring or frustrating reads. While Jason Fry manages to turn “Ambush” into a discussion of Yoda’s relationship to the Force in wartime and Greg van Eekhout peppers in new bits of dialogue into the already jampacked “The Lawless,” most of these revisitings are unimpressive. The most frustrating proves to be Yoon Ha Lee’s take on season four’s incredible Umbara arc. Lee is a talented writer of military focused science fiction so his taking on this story makes perfect sense, but “The Shadow of Umbara” can’t help but feel phoned in. It feels less like an adaptation but instead a heavily truncated transcription of four episodes of content. The complex character dynamics are stripped down. The emotions are lost. The horrors of war are nonpresent. It’s beyond disappointing.

The most inspired take of the collection comes from Sarah Beth Durst who reorients the point of view of season five’s “Young Jedi” arc to Katooni. Katooni was already a standout character in this story and getting to step into this fledgling Jedi’s thoughts and really get to understand her fears, hopes, and insecurities adds a nice flair to the narrative. There’s also just a certain joy in seeing the next generation of Jedi in awe of Ahsoka. Very relatable.

It’s a bizarre product and it leaves you wondering who exactly this collection was targeted to. The stories feels so disparate and also dependent on the continuity of the series to make sense for a new reader and fans of the show are unlikely to get much out of this book due to the familiarity of the source material.

And then there is “Bug.” The final story in this collection is somehow a must read despite it all. E. Anne Convery spins an original Star Wars fairy tale out of the traumatic aftermath of “Massacre.” Centered on a nameless young girl forced to work for her abusive innkeep parents on a backwater planet, “Bug” feels instantly compelling in its deft weaving of familiar fantasy tropes with Star Wars back droppings. When a strange old woman arrives fleeing the war, our protagonist’s world begins to expand and strange magic seems to spill from every corner. Convery writers her Dathomiran visitor with the right amount of wonder and fear and she feels right at home alongside any number of fairy tale witches and sorceresses. “Bug” proves to be an incredibly enjoyable genre play but also a blast of a story in its own right. It feels like the kind of bedtime tale you could read to an adventurous child at night and it hints to a larger world just outside its doorstep.

It’s a shame then that I have trouble recommending paying for a $17.99 book just for one stellar short story. If the entire collection had showcased the same level of freedom and creativity as its final piece this may have been something really special. But unfortunately, what we are left with is a mostly forgettable collection with one diamond in the rough. I guess I have to wait until FACPOV in November after all.

Score: C

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zeeheart · 5 years

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as much as i would love to smush anne and gilberts faces together i need them to first develop brain cells to process their feelings before anything else

#like gilbert can proces his feelings but cant convery them and anne is in denial so like children lets start thinking about developing a #healthy emotional understanding skills!! yay #anne with an e #shirbert #awae

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gffa · 4 years

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Stories of Light and Dark, coming August 25, promises to be a beautiful tribute to the just-completed animated series. The anthology will collect 11 stories by 11 authors — Lou Anders, Preeti Chhibber, Zoraida Córdova, Jason Fry, Rebecca Roanhorse, Greg Van Eekhout, Tom Angleberger, E. Anne Convery, Sarah Beth Durst, Yoon Ha Lee, and Anne Ursu — including 10 retellings of memorable episodes and arcs and one original Nightsisters-based story. So if you loved the tales of Ahsoka, Maul, and clanker-busting clones, Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Stories of Light and Dark will give you the chance to experience them again in a whole new way. Like Captain Rex on a recon mission, StarWars.com reached out to each author to learn why they love The Clone Wars, and which stories they’re telling. Lou Anders (“Dooku Captured” and “The Gungan General,” based on the episodes of the same name): I love The Clone Wars for expanding the story of Anakin’s fall from grace. Skywalker really shines in the series, and we see what he truly was, and what he could have been, and by giving him so many opportunities to excel in the early season, his ultimate fate is that much more tragic. I also love the series for gifting us my all-time favorite Star Wars character, and one of my favorite characters from any universe — Hondo Ohnaka! My chapter is a retelling of the first season story arc that plays out across the episodes “Dooku Captured” and “The Gungan General.” I wanted to explore this storyline because I find Count Dooku a fascinating character. Sometimes pure, mustache-twirling, mwa-ha-ha evil can actually be boring to write, but a villain who feels they are justified, either because of perceived slights or intellectual superiority or the failure of their rivals or birthright are much more interesting, and Dooku is a bit of all of this. For research, I obviously watched tons of Clone Wars. But I also read up on everything about Dooku I could find, and I listened to Christopher Lee and Corey Burton’s interpretation of the character over and over, trying to internalize their speech patterns. Dooku is so gorgeously supercilious. It was just a blast to get in his head and see the world from his perspective. (And the fact that the storyline gave me another chance to write for my beloved Hondo Ohnaka was an added bonus!) Tom Angleberger (“Bane’s Story,” based on the episodes “Deception,” “Friends and Enemies,” “The Box,” and “Crisis on Naboo”): There’s a lot to love in The Clone Wars, but I think it’s Ahsoka’s arc that really stands out the most. Ventress’s arc does, too, and the way that these arcs cross at the just the right moment is really great Star Wars! My chapter is based on the “Crisis on Naboo” story arc. It’s basically a Space Western. The baddest bounty hunter of them all, Cad Bane, is hired to kidnap the Chancellor. What he doesn’t know is that almost everyone is lying to him, especially a fellow bounty hunter who is really Obi-Wan in disguise. In the TV version, we see it all from Obi-Wan’s point of view, so we know that Bane is getting played. In this retelling, we see it all from Bane’s point of view and, boy, is he going to be mad! To prepare I watched both The Clone Wars AND old spaghetti Westerns starring Bane’s inspiration: Lee Van Cleef. Preeti Chhibber (“Hostage Crisis,” based on the episode of the same name): I love the story that the prequels tell, but because of the nature of what they were trying to do — tell a decade and a half worth of story in three films — we’re missing major moments in what the war really means to the galaxy at large, and in the Skywalker saga itself. The Clone Wars tells us that part of the narrative, it gives us the shape of what entire populations of people had to go through because of this war manufactured by the ultimate evil. And within that scope gives us the hope and love and beautiful tragedy we associate with Star Wars on a larger scale. (Also, Ahsoka Tano — The Clone Wars gave us Ahsoka Tano and for that I will be ever grateful.) I’m writing Anakin’s story during “Hostage Crisis” — an episode in the first season of The Clone Wars. I decided to write the story entirely from Anakin’s perspective, which meant being inside his head before the fall, but where we are starting to see more of the warning signs. And then there’s also the romance of this episode! Anakin’s love for Padmé is real and all-consuming and, as we eventually find out, unhealthy. So, this is a romantic episode, but one that shows us Anakin is ruled by his heart. And that that’s a dangerous thing for a Jedi. In order to best wrap my own head around what was going on, I watched the episode itself several times, and read the script, and then I watched the chronological episodes of Anakin’s run-ins with Cad Bane, so I could get a real feel for where he was with his understanding of Bane’s character. E. Anne Convery (“Bug,” based on the episode “Massacre”): I love it because I think it’s a story that manages, while still being a satisfying adventure, to not glorify war. It does this mainly by following through on the arcs of wonderful, terrifying, funny, fallible, and diverse characters. From the personal to the political, The Clone Warsredefines the ways, big and small, that we can be heroes. My chapter is the “original” tale, though it still touches on The Clone Wars Season Four episode “Massacre,” with brief appearances by Mother Talzin and Old Daka. If I had to boil it down, I’d say that it’s a story about mothers and daughters. Honestly, it felt a little like cheating, because writing new characters meant I got to be creative in the Star Wars universe somewhat unencumbered by what’s come before. I did, however, have several long text chats with Sam Witwer because I was interested in Talzin’s motivations. We talked about stuff like her capacity (or lack thereof) for love. I think I came away thinking she was more a creature driven by issues of power, control, and the desire for revenge, whereas Sam was a little kinder to her. I mean, he is her “son,” so you can’t really blame him for wanting to think better of her! I always love a story within a story, and I was interested in the space where the high mythology of Star Wars and the home-spun mythology of fairy tales could intersect. I drew on my own background in mythology, psychology, and the language of fairy tales, plus I did my Star Wars research. Re-watching the Nightsisters episodes was just plain fun. Zoraida Córdova (“The Lost Nightsister,” based on the episode “Bounty”): The Clone Wars deepens the characters we already love. It gives us the opportunity to explore the galaxy over a longer period of time and see the fight between the light and the dark side. Star Wars is about family, love, and hope. It’s also incredibly funny and that’s something that The Clone Wars does spectacularly. We also get to spend more time with characters we only see for a little bit in the movies like Boba Fett, Bossk, Darth Maul! My chapter follows Ventress after she’s experienced a brutal defeat. Spoiler alert: she’s witnessed the death of her sisters. Now she’s on Tatooine and in a rut. She gets mixed up with a bounty hunter crew led by Boba Fett. Ventress’s story is about how she goes from being lost to remembering how badass she is. I watched several episodes with her in it, but I watched “Bounty” about 50 times. Sarah Beth Durst (“Almost a Jedi,” based on the episode “A Necessary Bond”): I spent a large chunk of my childhood pretending I was training to become a Jedi Knight, even though I’d never seen a girl with a lightsaber before. And then The Clone Wars came along and gave me Ahsoka with not one but TWO lightsabers, as well as a role in the story that broadened and deepened the tale of Anakin’s fall and the fall of the Jedi. So I jumped at the chance to write about her for this anthology. In my story, I wrote about Ahsoka Tano from the point of view of Katooni, one of the Jedi younglings who Ahsoka escorts on a quest to assemble their first lightsabers, and it was one of the most fun writing experiences I’ve ever had! I watched the episode, “A Necessary Bond,” over and over, frame by frame, studying the characters and trying to imagine the world, the events, and Ahsoka herself through Katooni’s eyes. The episode shows you the story; I wanted to show you what it feels like to be inside the story. Greg van Eekhout (“Kenobi’s Shadow,” based on the episode “The Lawless”): What I most love about Clone Wars is how we really get to know the characters deeply and see them grow and change. I enjoyed writing a couple of short scenes between Obi-Wan and Anakin that weren’t in the episode. I wanted to highlight their closeness as friends and show that Anakin’s not the only Jedi who struggles with the dark side. There’s a crucial moment in my story when Obi-Wan is close to giving into his anger and has to make a choice: Strike out in violence or rise above it. It’s always fun to push characters to extremes and see how they react. Jason Fry (“Sharing the Same Face,” based on the episode “Ambush”): I love The Clone Wars because it made already beloved characters even richer and deepened the fascinating lore around the Jedi and the Force. I chose Yoda and the clones because the moment where Yoda rejects the idea that they’re all identical was one of the first moments in the show where I sat upright and said to myself, “Something amazing is happening here.” You get the entire tragedy of the Clone Wars right in that one quick exchange — the unwise bargain the Jedi have struck, Yoda’s compassion for the soldiers and insistence that they have worth, the clones’ gratitude for that, and how that gratitude is undercut by their powerlessness to avoid the fate that’s been literally hard-wired into them. Plus, though I’ve written a lot of Star Wars tales, I’d never had the chance to get inside Yoda’s head. That had been on my bucket list! Yoon Ha Lee (“The Shadow of Umbara,” based on the episodes “Darkness on Umbara,” “The General,” “Plan of Dissent,” and “Carnage of Krell”): I remember the first time I watched the “Umbara arc” — I was shocked that a war story this emotionally devastating was aired on a kids’ show. But then, kids deserve heartfelt, emotionally devastating stories, too. It was a pleasure to revisit the episodes and figure out how to retell them from Rex’s viewpoint in a compact way. I have so much respect for the original episodes’ writer, Matt Michnovetz — I felt like a butcher myself taking apart the work like this! Rebecca Roanhorse (“Dark Vengeance,” based on the episode “Brothers”): I always love a backstory and Clone Wars was the backstory that then became a rich and exciting story all its own. The writing and character development is outstanding and really sucks you into the world. I chose to write the two chapters that reintroduce Darth Maul to the world. We find him broken and mentally unstable, not knowing his own name but obsessed with revenge against Obi-Wan and we get to see him rebuild himself into a cruel, calculating, and brilliant villain. It was so much fun to write and I hope readers enjoy it. Anne Ursu (“Pursuit of Peace,” based on the episode “Heroes on Both Sides”): The Clone Wars creates a space for terrific character development. The attention paid to the relationships between Anakin and Obi-Wan, and Anakin and Ahsoka make for really wonderful and resonant stories, and give so much depth to the whole universe. I was at first a little scared to write Padmé, as her character felt pretty two dimensional to me. But the more I watched her episodes in Clone Wars, the more dimension she took on. She’s such an interesting character — she’s both idealistic and realistic, so when corruption runs rampant in the Senate she doesn’t get disillusioned, she just fights harder. She has an ability to deal with nuance in a way that is rare in the Republic — and it means she’s not afraid to bend a few laws to make things right. In this chapter, the Senate is about to deregulate the banks in order to fund more troops, and Padmé decides to take matters into her own hand and sneak into Separatist territory in order to start peace negotiations. Of course, neither Dooku nor the corrupt clans of the Republic are going to allow for this to happen, so the threats to the peace process, the Republic, and Padmé’s life only grow. This arc is the perfect distillation of Padmé’s character, and it made getting into her head for it fairly simple. But I did watch all the Padmé Clone Wars episodes and read E.K. Johnston’s book about her, as well as Thrawn: Alliances, in which she has a major storyline. I really loved writing her. Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Stories of Light and Dark arrives August 25 and is available for pre-order now.

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thedroidsyouarelookingfor · 3 years

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Star Wars Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark

★★★☆☆

This was my last book of 2020, and I actually did want to make a little post about it. Despite the so-so rating, I do recommend this if you haven’t read it!

Before starting this I actually was unaware that these stories were almost all just stories from the actual television series. Frankly, that was a bit of a disappointment. Most of these stories you’d be better off just watching in the actual tv show; however, there are a few that offer some really interesting internal monologue that you don’t get in the animation.

I particularly liked the Yoda, Dooku, and Maul stories. I listening to the audiobook, and these performances in particular really made the stories great, even though I knew them already.

My absolute favorite short in this collection, however, is entirely new! It’s written by E. Anne Convery, who just so happens to be the wife of Dave Filoni. The narrator really helped to sell this story and it easily makes this book a worthy addition to any Star Wars library.

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E. Anne Convery on The Clone Wars, Myth, & Fairy Tales

New episode! E. Anne Convery, author of the new Nightsisters story "Bug" in The Clone Wars anthology book, joins us to discuss her mythology, fairy tales, storytelling, her namesake convors (Morai!), and so much more.

E. Anne Convery, the author of the Nightsisters story “Bug” in “The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark” joins Caitlin and Charlotte to discuss her background in fairy tales and mythology, Star Wars, her favorite things about Celebration, writing “Bug”, the collective unconscious, The Clone Wars finale, her namesake convors (Morai!), and so much more. Light spoilers for her new story, “Bug.”

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Tarkin's Top Shelf welcomes E. Anne Convery, The Clone Wars Anthology Author of the short-story "Bug," to the show! Your hosts' had the honor to sit-down with the delightful and talented author of the only original short-story from Star Wars: The Clone Wars - stories of the light and dark, E. Ann

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sarahbethdurst · 4 years

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THE CLONE WARS: STORIES OF LIGHT AND DARK is out today!

Today is the book birthday for THE CLONE WARS: STORIES OF LIGHT AND DARK, and I'm extremely excited to be part of this anthology and a part of Star Wars! I fell in love with Star Wars a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away), and it's been a major influence on all of my books.

Very thrilled to be in this anthology with Lou Anders, Tom Angleberger, Preeti Chhibber, E. Anne Convery, Zoraida Cordova, Jason Fry, Yoon Ha Lee, Rebecca Roanhorse, Anne Ursu, and Greg Van Eekhout, edited by Jen Heddle!

Each story is a retelling of a Clone Wars episode from a different character's point-of-view.

My story ("Almost a Jedi") centers on Ahsoka Tano, as seen through the eyes of Jedi youngling Katooni. I loved seeing the Star Wars universe through the eyes of a girl who desperately wants her first lightsaber -- because I was once a little girl who wanted a real lightsaber.

I was too young to see the first Star Wars movie in a movie theater, but my parents taped it off TV. Our warped recording alternated between black-and-white and color every few scenes, but I didn't care. I watched that VHS tape over and over until it failed.

Years later, I remember going to the movies with my husband purely to see the trailer to the long-awaited Episode I. Pretty sure I cried from over-excitement when the Lucasfilm logo appeared. I know I cried during Episode VII when that lightsaber landed in Rey's hand.

Star Wars shaped my sense of what Story is -- Story-with-a-capital-S. You can see its influence in all of my books. I'm always trying to capture that same sense of adventure, humor, and hope in my own writing.

So I am enormously thrilled to have had the chance to retell an episode of the very awesome Clone Wars series. Thank you to Jen Heddle, Disney Lucasfilm, and Star Wars for the extraordinarily fun writing experience!

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Star Wars Geek Girl 168: Stories of Light and Dark with E. Anne Convery!

On Episode 168…

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Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark Review

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars is having a Renaissance at the moment. The powerful, status quo-shattering season seven was just one of the ways this fan-favorite animated series was able to live on past its original 2014 series finale. And after the success of the seventh season, which saw the show revisit some of the darkest moments in Revenge of the Sith, it isn’t much of a surprise that Lucasfilm is anxious to bring more The Clone Wars stories to life.

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Unfortunately, The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark short story anthology doesn’t really show us new parts of the well-trodden conflict. The impressive table of contents is more diverse than the stories themselves would suggest: most of the stories are competent but unexciting, told in a standard, unadorned voice. Since they are retellings of episodes (with one pleasant exception), there isn’t much new to discover here. Whether you enjoy it might depend on whether you’re already a fan of the animated series, or on the strength of a few stand-out stories with a strong dose of Star Wars heart.

Each story retells an episode from the animated series. While the subtitle suggests the stories might be organized according to the light side and the dark side, a la the “heroes on both sides” line The Clone Wars promised to explore, they aren’t that clearly delineated. Stories from the first through fifth seasons are presented in chronological order. There are some particularly good episodes included, like the Umbara arc, as well as some important story beats crucial when it comes to the overarching saga of The Clone Wars, such as Maul’s takeover of Mandalore. But fans who haven’t watched the show in a while, or don’t remember the episodes all that well, might end up confused. While I can’t fault the concept of letting a myriad of authors novelize a wide variety of episodes, it does make the collection feel disjointed.

I’d be remiss to focus entirely on the stories without mentioning the art from prominent fan artist Ksenia Zelentsova. Her watercolor paintings adorn the covers and interior. Her painting style gives a unique hand-made look to the characters that blends The Clone Wars‘ angular faces with some more flowing lines and natural-looking costumes.

Along with the illustrations, the other brand-new material in the book is a short story by E. Anne Convery, wife of the show’s producer Dave Filoni and a compelling Disney-style storyteller in her own right. Her story, “Bug,” bleeds a little bit of horror into a twist on the fundamental Star Wars fantasy of a child on a backwater planet yearning for adventure. It nicely establishes the Nightsisters as a spooky, dangerous faction with ambitions equal to the Sith. This might inevitably have been one of the most memorable stories in the collection by virtue of being new, but the compelling, charming plot also helps it stand out.

Jason Fry’s and Rebecca Roanhorse’s stories work particularly well at getting inside the heads of the characters. Fry’s adaptation of one of Yoda’s first missions with clone troopers offers deep characterization and fun new insights. (Yoda is surprised the clone army would be made up of humans, since they are, as a species, “raucous and impatient.”) Roanhorse chose the second person to cast Maul’s voice as a whisper in the ear of a child, his rebirth re-written as an ominous fairy tale. The result is a character voice that is strong and eerie. Between the two of them, these stories present the light and dark as told in the title: Yoda learns more about the humanity of the people around him, and Maul sinks deeper into his self-obsessed thirst for revenge, slaughtering innocents along the way to draw the attention of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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While they don’t all resonate, many of the stories have some interesting qualities. Tom Angleberger creates a fun, funny voice for bounty hunter Cad Bane, although his choice of episode is one of the cases where it is most obvious the story is part of an arc and could do with more context for readers who don’t remember the episode well. Zoraida Córdova’s Asajj Ventress story makes her episode’s arc more obvious and captures Ventress’ joy at using the Force without restriction.

Some stories serve mostly to remind fans how good some of the episodes were. “The Pursuit of Peace” adaptation by Anne Ursu highlights Padmé Amidala’s role in galactic politics, and the story of war profiteering and financial manipulation on both sides hits close to home. Yoon Ha Lee’s take on “Shadow of Umbara” doesn’t show off the author’s penchant for flashy, weird military science fiction but is a loyal recreation of a hard-hitting episode.

At worst, some of the stories use flat, boring prose to simply retell a decent episode. Both fight scenes and dialogue tend to be devoid of any additional commentary from the characters when they could be the best places to show characterization. The physical comedy on the show just doesn’t work as well on the page, especially if it wasn’t brilliant in the show in the first place.

The anthology novelization format means there just isn’t enough new material here. If you’re willing to pay the price for just a particular favorite character or episode, you’ll get pretty much what you’d expect from a glossy, gift-able collection: lovely illustrations and inoffensive retellings of stories you already know. As a kid-friendly way to carry favorite stories around in a new way, it works. But even as the staunchest supporter of experiencing Star Wars stories in whatever bizarre order you want, the lack of context for some of the stories seems more confusing than intriguing.

Stories of Light and Dark is thoroughly fine. The novelty anthology shows off capable authors, some of whom I’d love to see tackle longer, original Star Wars stories in the future.

The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark is out now.

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