Reddit reviews Rogue Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing Series, Book 1)

I liked the thrawn trilogy. Zahn does a good job of putting some of the sci-fi genres people like into star wars. There is a hacker character and militarism and of course you get to see tiny tidbits of the clone wars and everything that people were dying to learn about at the time (the books came out before the prequel movies).

I sort of enjoy star wars that isn't the epic star wars. That is, a lot of the west end games short stories and other stuff that came out that let people explore the universe but without the galaxy ending ramifications most star wars stuff was about. You can find these stories in the Star Wars Journals. I think some of these ended up in the Tales books. Tales of the Bounty is probably the collection everyone likes the best.

Another book I liked was the novelization of the Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight video game. It's a trilogy of books that came out with the game. I wouldn't say they are the best and maybe I only like them because of nolstalgia for the game but who knows, maybe you will like them.

I also really liked the Boba Fett trilogy, The Bounty Hunter Wars. I'm not really a huge Boba Fett fan like some people but these books were fun because they get away from whatever mischief luke and company are up to this week. You get to see parts of the galaxy you don't see elsewhere.

Also, the X-Wing books by Michael A. Stackpole were very good. I never read the books by Aaron Allston, although I met him at a convention once.

I didn't like the New Jedi Order series. It felt too. . .prepared I guess. I don't know how else to describe it. It was fun when I was reading it as a teenager but I sort of lost interest at some point and I think it's because NJO spends so much time giving you everything and not letting you use your imagination. That was always the best part about Star Wars for me. Imagining who I would be or what I would do and all that.

Not really. As a "spaceship", yes, but TIE Defenders aren't very aerodynamic.

In the lore TIEs would be at a massive disadvantage in atmospheric combat. They would rely heavily on their gravity repulsers just to generate lift; if they were lured into a turn fight they would have a terrible turning radius and risk tumbling from the sky, unlike the I-185.

They'd be good boom-and-zoomers, maybe, until they get going fast enough for the panels to be ripped off.

Recommended reading: Star Wars: X-Wing series by Michael A. Stackpole. Seems out of place on the War Thunder sub, but on the other hand this series has a lot of dogfights (albeit mostly in space). Excellent storyline, too.

Highly recommended as an entry into the Star Wars book universe; it's not as stupid or ultra-nerdy as it sounds.

Okay, this is going to be more information than you asked for, but I love these books, so I apologise in advance. Going in chronological order is your best bet because they're all really solid stories.

• X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
  
  
• X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble
  
  
• X-Wing: The Krytos Trap
  
  
• X-Wing: The Bacta War
  
  These are written by Michael Stackpole and follow Rogue Squadron in the aftermath of Return of The Jedi. They're all part of a single interconnected story, but also work well as stand alone books.
  
  After that there's the Wraith Squadron books, written by Aaron Allston. These follow a whole other set of characters. I think it's universally agreed these are the funniest books in all of the Expanded Universe. That's not say they're comedies, they just have some really amusing characters.
  
  
• X-Wing: Wraith Squadron
  
  
• X-Wing: Iron Fist
  
  
• X-Wing: Solo Command
  
  
  There are a couple more X-Wing books after this, but if you're really into it, I'd advise checking out Heir To The Empire and the rest of the Thrawn trilogy first, if only from a chronological standpoint.
  
  Also, if you're an ebook fan, it looks like all of the X-Wing books have been collected here.
  

Reading this from my inbox I thought you wanted to get into Europe. Awkward.

In chronological order (and I'd very much recommend reading them in this order, it can be rather confusing trying to understand events and relationships you've never heard of). Please note these are all Post Endor; there are also many good books prior to the events covered in these, and there are certainly excellent books that have slipped my notice. I'd suggest going to your local library and searching there if you want even more.

• Anyway, I'd highly recommend Heir to the Empire to start off, since it very much popularized the EU. There's three others to the series, all of which I'd recommend.
  
  
• My other favorite is The X-Wing series, beginning at "Rogue Squadron" The series is great, but its pretty long at around 9 books. I think the most interesting aspect is how multiple authors contribute to the series, so there is a variety of style.
  
  
• And I'd say the longest, largest, most comprehensive, and best series is the Yuuzhan Vong Series (actual name is New Jedi Order I think). Starting at Vector Prime (written by R.A. Salvatore, whose other works I'd also recommend), it details a galaxy-wide war against a strange extra-galactic race intent on total domination.
  
  
• If all of that still wasn't enough for you, "The Legacy of the Force" series, beginning at "Betrayal" carries the story on. Personally I'd recommend against reading these. I found them kinda depressing in how the story progresses. That and I don't particularly like the authors' writing style. Still, if you must have more, then this is next in chronological order.
  
  I apologize if that was too comprehensive.

What I enjoyed as a teenager, and among the easier reads are Ender's Game, Animal Farm, and Ringworld. Less 'literature' are Rogue Warrior, X-Wing: Rogue Squadron, and Ice Station. Actually, I've never read a book by Matt Reilly (Ice Station) that I didn't finish in one day - they're hard to put down.

New Star Wars on Friday! Rapscallions, rebels, and rogues! The Rebel Alliance (or Resistance, I guess? Force Awakens is weird) has some murky goals… Andrew helps Greg understand Star Wars backstory through real world history, and Greg wonders why nobody in the Galaxy knows how to read.

Recommendations:

X-Wing Series by Michael Stackpole

Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn

Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie


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The X-wing series are good too!

http://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Squadron-Star-Wars-X-Wing/dp/0553568019

http://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Squadron-Star-Wars-X-Wing/dp/0553568019/ref=pd_sim_b_3

They still have cheap ones on Amazon. New ones too.

jesus dude, it took fewer than three seconds to open a tab, type x-wing stackpole in the omni bar, hit enter, and click on the link that leads here.