#its a rare phenotype in our world because star wars took em all apparently

[spockandawe]

Wow, the first Callista book was agonizing and the second one is off to a fabulous start as well!!! Also, Jedi Academy by kevin j anderson has been my least favorite trilogy so far annnnnd guess who wrote this one. When I mentioned him to my dad, I hadn't even started ranting about how bad those books were yet, but his immediate reaction was 'isn't he known for writing really mediocre sci fi?'

Yes. Yes he is.

Anyways, it would be REALLY RAD if this franchise could stop being weird and gross about tuskens for like two fucking seconds. 1976? Okay. I hate it, but I GET it. But the nineties books won't lay off either, this is 1995 and I haaaaaate how tahiri has been presented (even though the character herself is very.... whatever, divorced from her origin story), but then Darksaber shows up and decides to set the tone with relentless wow, check out these exotic Barbaric Tribal Customs, and this book is so long and I'm only half a chapter in but I'm already so Done.

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#kevin..... new enemy just dropped #mark of duneinfo dot com #I'm forgetting at least one other star wars enemy #every time an author introduces an additional sexy redhead all of them lose approval points #its a rare phenotype in our world because star wars took em all apparently #oh #alan dean foster has big enemy points just on the merits of splinter of the mind's eye #i felt as slimy as leia probably did after her sexy mud fight #spock reads star wars #racism/ #time to go reread ast to bury myself in respectful takes on tusken culture