Claudia Gray

It's Princess of the Rebellion.

And Claudia Gray, who's one of my favorite Star Wars writers, is writing that one.

This is placed after Episode 4.

I think it's before Episode 4.

Okay, let's get into them.

We have Claudia Gray's new novel and Dave Filoni's new comic series.

Let's start with the novel, Star Wars: Princess of the Rebellion.

Right.

Now, Lucier points out that Claudia Gray has a track record of writing some of the absolute most acclaimed Star Wars novels of the modern era.

Oh, she's top tier for sure.

Which sets the expectation level incredibly high for this one.

Right.

Well, let's, uh, let's start at the beginning, which I am told is a very good place to start.

Star Trek: Deviations Evermore, uh, that came out on September 9th, written by Claudia Gray with art by Andie Price, and here is the publisher's description: "Quoth the Raven, 'Evermore.' This spooky one-shot features Dr. Joseph M'Benga of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as he encounters various crew members turned into characters and creatures from the worlds of Edgar Allan Poe aboard the USS Enterprise.

Dr. M'Benga's daughter, Rukiya, has always loved a good bedtime story, especially if that story contains a raven, a beating heart beneath the floorboards, or a deadly plague.

But now, on what seems like a night like any other, she's whisked away by the very fantasies she once delighted in.

Yeah, absolutely.

So the next one that we are talking about doing is Lost Stars by Claudia Gray.

Yes.

Also, Claudia Gray has come up in our conversations a lot.

She is a really great writer that has made a great mark on Star Wars.

So it's a young adult Star Wars book.

When we talked about it, I thought it was a really interesting next one to do about life in the Empire from a regular citizen's perspective.

Yeah.

So this psychological profile leads us perfectly into the first book on our roadmap.

If you are listening to this and you strongly resonate with that Rebellion mindset, that grinding, unglamorous work of trying to navigate and fix a broken system, then the book custom-built for you is Star Wars, Bloodline by Claudia Gray.

Published in 2016, it is a remarkable piece of political fiction.

It really is.

Okay.

But instead of focusing on young heroes discovering the Force, it centers entirely on Princess Leia Organa in her late 40s.

Terry Fisher's legendary character, and according to Diego Pineda Pacheco's guide, Claudia Gray captures Leia's internal voice and cadence better than virtually any other author in the expanded universe.

It's uncanny how well she does it.