Of course, with Thrawn in possession of the type of cognitive faculties that would make Sherlock Holmes appear dim-witted, he was more than capable of piecing two and two together and deducing Vader’s true identity in short order. In Thrawn: Alliances, readers were treated to an intriguing contrast, as the tale swapped between a past encounter Thrawn had with the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and an unlikely team-up with the freshly minted Sith Lord, Darth Vader. In the first two books in Zahn’s trilogy, we saw him begin to weave the threads of the animated Star Wars: Rebels series (which was Thrawn’s first official appearance both on-screen and in the new continuity) together with the threads of both the original and prequel trilogies. With the book’s timeline set midway through the events of Star Wars: Rebels season four, and prior to the events of Rogue One and A New Hope, Zahn continues to stitch together the various eras and characters of the Star Wars universe with the practiced hand of a true master.

More recently, however, following Disney’s massive reworking of the Star Wars canon which saw the demotion of over 380 Star Wars titles to non-canonical Legends status, he was also the first to resurrect one of the most important and universally beloved EU villains, Grand Admiral Thrawn, in a new trilogy of books that now sits as official Star Wars canon in the new continuity.Īt the end of July, Zahn released the third and final instalment in his Thrawn trilogy, Thrawn: Treason, which follows on from the events of 2017’s Thrawn and 2018’s Thrawn: Alliances. No one writes Star Wars quite like 2018 Supa-Star author Timothy Zahn after all, he was the man originally responsible for picking up the threads of the Star Wars universe and writing the first-ever, and many would say still the best, trilogy of books post- Return of the Jedi in the original Star Wars expanded universe.

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