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Zahn does it again, Outbound Flight gives great new insights in to Thrawn, February 6, 2006
Star Wars: Outbound Flight
Star Wars Star Wars available on September 22 2016 from Buy for 121.92Back in the early 1990's, Tim Zahn wrote a series that opened up the floodgates for the expanded Star Wars universe. He introduced perhaps the most complex and interesting character ever created for science fiction: Grand Admiral Thrawn. Over the last 15 years, readers have been treated with small glimpses of the destruction of Outbound Flight and the personality of Thrawn but with the exception of a short story, the Grand Admiral has not shown up again. Now he does with a vengeance. The history of Outbound Flight, the totalitarianistic ideals of Jorus C'Boath, the Chiss, Obi-wan and Anakin, Palpatine and most importantly Thrawn all appear in this book set approximately 5 years after Episode I. The characters come to life with startling clarity and at the head is Thrawn himself and his genius for combat. What Zahn does not do is give too much about Thrawn away. Even though the reader learns much about this fantastic character, Zahn still keeps him shrouded in mystery. He never...
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| Author: Malcolm (Los Angeles, US.. | If you, like me, read Zahn's Thrawn trilogy a very, very long time ago, and you've followed the universe even through all of the meandering nonsense of late, this is the book you've been waiting for. Aside from an early diversion with Obi-Wan and Anakin that's completely incidental to the plot (and almost feels like it was forced, as if he was required to add them to his story), this is completely and totally the first chapter of ZAHN'S Star Wars universe. His books hang together remarkably well, and form a very small, rational subset of a universe otherwise churning with inconsistencies of theme, plot, and character.This book introduces us to Thrawn before he was an imperial commander, Jorj Car'das before he was a famed outlaw, and Jorus C'baoth before he was an insane clone. We finally get the whole story of Outbound Flight, and along the way a healthy helping of Palpatine's machinations and Thrawn's motivations (to the point where I'd argue that Thrawn is more Zahn's... | 6 | |
| Author: J. K. Moser "JKM" (Flemi.. | Back in the early 1990's, Tim Zahn wrote a series that opened up the floodgates for the expanded Star Wars universe. He introduced perhaps the most complex and interesting character ever created for science fiction: Grand Admiral Thrawn. Over the last 15 years, readers have been treated with small glimpses of the destruction of Outbound Flight and the personality of Thrawn but with the exception of a short story, the Grand Admiral has not shown up again. Now he does with a vengeance. The history of Outbound Flight, the totalitarianistic ideals of Jorus C'Boath, the Chiss, Obi-wan and Anakin, Palpatine and most importantly Thrawn all appear in this book set approximately 5 years after Episode I. The characters come to life with startling clarity and at the head is Thrawn himself and his genius for combat. What Zahn does not do is give too much about Thrawn away. Even though the reader learns much about this fantastic character, Zahn still keeps him shrouded in mystery. He never... | 6 | |
| Author: L. A. Kane (Seattle, WA .. | Despite the title the book is really much more about Thrawn and first Republic contact with the Chiss than it is about the Outbound Flight Project. Outbound Flight is the central mechanism around which the plot unfolds, of course, but isn't the prime feature of the story. Nevertheless, this is a very good book, well worth reading (as are pretty much all of Mr. Zahn's works). The only thing I didn't like was the superfluous inclusion of Anakin and Obi Wan but they only play minor roles and leave before the ship reaches the Unknown Regions so it's not that big of a deal (though it's somewhat inelegant that Palpatine leaves after the project's launch only to show up at the last stop before the Unknown Regions to personally pull them off the Project too).Now that I've gotten that off my chest, the pacing is great, the plot is complex (especially Thrawn's scheming and masterful military machinations), and the characterizations are first rate (except for Anakin and Obi Wan as... | 7 | |
