Tales From Jabba's Palace: Star Wars Legends

In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt might have made a good joke -- if he weren't so dangerous. A cast of soldiers, spies, assassins, scoundrels, bounty hunters, and pleasure seekers have come to his palace, and every visitor to Jabba's grand abode has a story. Some of them may even live to tell it. . . . Featuring original stories by: Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, John Gregory Betancourt, Mark Budz and Marina Fitch, A.C. Crispin, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, George Alec Effinger, Kenneth C. Flint, Esther Friesner, Barbara Hambly, Daryl F. Mallett, J.D. Montgomery, Judy and Gar Reeves-Stevens, Jennifer Roberson, Kathy Tyers, Deborah Wheeler, Dave Wolverton, William F. Wu, Timothy Zahn.В Amazon.com Review One of the more prolific--and proficient-- Star Wars authors, Kevin J. Anderson, edits and contributes to this anthology of ... well, tales from Jabba's palace. Each of the 19 short tales focuses on a different personality, from the rancor keeper to Salacious Crumb, putting faces and facts on the internecine intrigue swirling around everyone's favorite Huttese crime lord. (As it turns out, you can find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley.) Find out how Bib Fortuna hoped to overthrow Jabba, or hear the philosophical ramblings of a not-so-bright teenage skiff guard. Or, perhaps best, learn how Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon. Style, mood, and quality vary by author, but these Tales are mostly funny and mostly well done, including those by Anderson, Star Trek author A.C. Crispin, Nebula-winner George Alec Effinger, and Hugo-winner Timothy Zahn. --Paul Hughes ISBN : 9780553568158 Formats : AZW3, EPUB, MOBI, PDF In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt might have made a good joke -- if he weren't so dangerous. A cast of soldiers, spies, assassins, scoundrels, bounty hunters, and pleasure seekers have come to his palace, and every visitor to Jabba's grand abode has a story. Some of them may even live to tell it. . . .

Featuring original stories by: Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, John Gregory Betancourt, Mark Budz and Marina Fitch, A.C. Crispin, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, George Alec Effinger, Kenneth C. Flint, Esther Friesner, Barbara Hambly, Daryl F. Mallett, J.D. Montgomery, Judy and Gar Reeves-Stevens, Jennifer Roberson, Kathy Tyers, Deborah Wheeler, Dave Wolverton, William F. Wu, Timothy Zahn. 

This anthology of 19 stories concerns one of the denizens of the palace of the bulbous blob, Jabba the Hutt. This collection features stories by a fantastic array of imaginative SF talents, including Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, John Gregory Betancourt, Mark Budz and Marina Fitch, A.C. Crispin, George Alec Effinger, and Kenneth C. Flint. Original.

A boy and his monster : the rancor keeper's tale / Kevin J. Anderson Taster's choice : the tale of Jabba's chef / Barbara Hambly That's entertainment : the tale of Salacious Crumb / Esther M. Friesner A time to mourn, a time to dance : Oola's tale / Kathy Tyers Let us prey : the whiphid's tale / Marina Fitch and Mark Budz Sleight of hand : the tale of Mara Jade / Timothy Zahn And then there were some : the Gamorrean guard's tale / William F. Wu Old friends : Ephant Mon's tale / Kenneth C. Flint Goatgrass : the tale of Ree-Yees / Deborah Wheeler And the band played on : the band's tale / John Gregory Betancourt Of the day's annoyances : Bib Fortuna's tale / M. Shayne Bell The great God Quay : the tale of Barada and the Weequays / George Alec Effinger A bad feeling : the tale of EV-9D9 / Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens A free quarren in the palace : Tessek's tale / Dave Wolverton Tongue-tied : Bubo's tale / Daryl F. Mallett Out of the closet : the assassin's tale / Jennifer Roberson Shaara and the Sarlacc : the Skiff guard's tale / Dan'l Danehy-Oakes A Barve like that : the tale of Boba Fett / J.D. Montgomery Skin Deep : the fat dancer's tale / A. C. Crispin. In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt might have made a good joke -- if he weren't so dangerous. A cast of soldiers, spies, assassins, scoundrels, bounty hunters, and pleasure seekers have come to his palace, and every visitor to Jabba's grand abode has a story. Some of them may even live to tell it....Featuring original stories by: Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, John Gregory Betancourt, Mark Budz and Marina Fitch, A.C. Crispin, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, George Alec Effinger, Kenneth C. Flint, Esther Friesner, Barbara Hambly, Daryl F. Mallett, J.D. Montgomery, Judy and Gar Reeves-Stevens, Jennifer Roberson, Kathy Tyers, Deborah Wheeler, Dave Wolverton, William F. Wu, Timothy Zahn. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years! A collection of short stories takes place in the palace of the infamous Jabba the Hutt and includes the works of such authors as Kevin J. Anderson, A.C. Crispin, Barbara Hambly, Jennifer Roberson, and Timothy Zahn