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Christie Golden
170 books1,872 followersAward-winning author Christie Golden has written over thirty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. She has over a million books in print.
2009 will see no fewer than three novels published. First out in late April will be a World of Warcraft novel, Athas: Rise of the Lich King. This is the first Warcraft novel to appear in hardcover. Fans of the young paladin who fell so far from grace will get to read his definitive story.
In June, Golden’s first Star Wars novel, also a hardcover, sees print. Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi—Omen is the second in a nine-book series she is co-authoring with Aaron Allston and Troy Denning. Also in June comes the conclusion of Golden’s StarCraft: The Dark Templar Saga with the release of Twlight, the third book in the series. The first two are Firstborn and Shadow Hunters.
2004 saw the launch of an original fantasy series called The Final Dance, from LUNA Books. The first novel in the series, On Fire's Wings, was published in July of that year. The second, In Stone’s Clasp , came out in September of 2005. With In Stone’s Clasp, Golden won the Colorado Author’s League Top Hand Award for Best Genre Novel for the second time. The third book, Under Sea’s Shadow, is available only as an e-book
Golden is also the author of two original fantasy novels from Ace Books, King's Man and Thief and Instrument of Fate, which made the 1996 Nebula Preliminary Ballot. Under the pen name of Jadrien Bell, she wrote a historical fantasy thriller entitled A.D. 999, which won the Colorado Author's League Top Hand Award for Best Genre Novel of 1999.
Golden launched the TSR Ravenloft line in 1991 with her first novel, the highly successful Vampire of the Mists , which introduced elven vampire Jander Sunstar. Golden followed up Vampire with Dance of the Dead and The Enemy Within . In September of 2006, fifteen years to the month, The Ravenloft Covenant: Vampire of the Mists enabled Jander Sunstar to reach a whole new audience.
Other projects include a slew of Star Trek novels, among them The Murdered Sun , Marooned , and Seven of Nine , and "The Dark Matters Trilogy," Cloak and Dagger , Ghost Dance and Shadow of Heaven .
The Voyager novel relaunch, which includes Homecoming and The Farther Shore , were bestsellers and were the fastest-selling Trek novels of 2003. Golden continued writing VOYAGER novels even though the show went off the air, and enjoyed exploring the creative freedom that gave her in the two-parter called Spirit Walk, which includes Old Wounds and Enemy of my Enemy .
Golden has also written the novelization of Steven Spielberg's Invasion America and an original "prequel," On The Run , both of which received high praise from producer Harve Bennett. On The Run, a combination medical thriller and science fiction adventure, even prompted Bennett to invite Golden to assist in crafting the second season of the show, if it was renewed.
Golden lives in Loveland, Colorado, with her artist husband and their two cats.
2009 will see no fewer than three novels published. First out in late April will be a World of Warcraft novel, Athas: Rise of the Lich King. This is the first Warcraft novel to appear in hardcover. Fans of the young paladin who fell so far from grace will get to read his definitive story.
In June, Golden’s first Star Wars novel, also a hardcover, sees print. Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi—Omen is the second in a nine-book series she is co-authoring with Aaron Allston and Troy Denning. Also in June comes the conclusion of Golden’s StarCraft: The Dark Templar Saga with the release of Twlight, the third book in the series. The first two are Firstborn and Shadow Hunters.
2004 saw the launch of an original fantasy series called The Final Dance, from LUNA Books. The first novel in the series, On Fire's Wings, was published in July of that year. The second, In Stone’s Clasp , came out in September of 2005. With In Stone’s Clasp, Golden won the Colorado Author’s League Top Hand Award for Best Genre Novel for the second time. The third book, Under Sea’s Shadow, is available only as an e-book
Golden is also the author of two original fantasy novels from Ace Books, King's Man and Thief and Instrument of Fate, which made the 1996 Nebula Preliminary Ballot. Under the pen name of Jadrien Bell, she wrote a historical fantasy thriller entitled A.D. 999, which won the Colorado Author's League Top Hand Award for Best Genre Novel of 1999.
Golden launched the TSR Ravenloft line in 1991 with her first novel, the highly successful Vampire of the Mists , which introduced elven vampire Jander Sunstar. Golden followed up Vampire with Dance of the Dead and The Enemy Within . In September of 2006, fifteen years to the month, The Ravenloft Covenant: Vampire of the Mists enabled Jander Sunstar to reach a whole new audience.
Other projects include a slew of Star Trek novels, among them The Murdered Sun , Marooned , and Seven of Nine , and "The Dark Matters Trilogy," Cloak and Dagger , Ghost Dance and Shadow of Heaven .
The Voyager novel relaunch, which includes Homecoming and The Farther Shore , were bestsellers and were the fastest-selling Trek novels of 2003. Golden continued writing VOYAGER novels even though the show went off the air, and enjoyed exploring the creative freedom that gave her in the two-parter called Spirit Walk, which includes Old Wounds and Enemy of my Enemy .
Golden has also written the novelization of Steven Spielberg's Invasion America and an original "prequel," On The Run , both of which received high praise from producer Harve Bennett. On The Run, a combination medical thriller and science fiction adventure, even prompted Bennett to invite Golden to assist in crafting the second season of the show, if it was renewed.
Golden lives in Loveland, Colorado, with her artist husband and their two cats.
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December 17, 2023
For 2023, I decided to reread the post-NJO books set after the Dark Nest trilogy, especially as I abandoned the Legacy of the Force series after Sacrifice all the way back in 2007. This shakes out to the nine books of the Legacy of the Force series, the nine books of the Fate of the Jedi series, three standalone novels, and five short stories.
This week’s focus: a short story about Jagged Fel and Jaina Solo’s honeymoon: “Getaway” by Christie Golden.
Intro:
Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel were married at the end of Apocalypse, the last book in the Fate of the Jedi series, after Jaina was promoted to Jedi Master and Jag stepped down from his position as the Imperial Head of State. This short story depicts their honeymoon, which ends up being far more dangerous than expected. “Getaway” by Christie Golden appeared in Star Wars Insider issue 134 in May of 2012, with artwork by Joe Corroney. It was also reprinted in Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Volume 1.
Summary:
The newly married Jaina Solo and Jag Fel head to the Outer Rim world of Sakuub for their honeymoon, ostensibly to hike to the Sky Temple of Karsol but actually so that Jaina can evaluate if they’re old Jedi ruins. To Jag’s chagrin, the expedition turns into a deadly trap…
The Good:
I was a little disappointed by Jaina and Jag's wedding at the end of Apocalypse, simply because it was really short! Just one brief chapter, and we didn't even hear if any of Jag's family was there. (That does continue the Skywalker/Solo tradition of poorly-executed weddings, though, since Luke nearly missed Han and Leia’s wedding at the end of The Courtship of Princess Leia.) I was very happy to see that “Getaway” spent a little more time with Jaina and Jag and showed how they're settling into married life.
I enjoyed that Jag is not on board with a hiking expedition, and would much rather have spent some time resting and relaxing in the Hapes Cluster. (Hiking for a mission? No problem. Hiking on his honeymoon, and sleeping in a tent? Jag has many unvoiced complaints.) I also enjoyed that “Getaway” is almost solely from Jag's point of view; we see how well he's come to know Jaina, so that without her even saying anything he senses when something's amiss. And in the final fight at the end, Jag doesn’t have Jaina’s Force skills but they’re still able to work together to take down their foes.
The Meh:
“Getaway” is short, around four to five pages. There were even more illustrations than in First Blood or Roll of the Dice, which lent to the feeling that there’s just not a lot of story here. J&J head to Sakuub, meet their guide Pharika, Jaina senses something wrong in the market, a lovey-dovey scene. We skip the bulk of their multi-day hike to their arrival at the Sky Temple of Karsol, where Jaina finds a holocron and they’re attacked by Pharika and her allies. Jag takes down Pharika, but she’s killed by the ship, and then that ship in turn is destroyed by a mystery ship piloted by the Hutt from the market. The Hutt tells Jaina that they’ve paid their debt to her, and now Jaina has to get Jag back down to the city. There’s not much there, and even though Jag was injured I was never truly worried about either Jaina or Jag’s safety here.
Similarly, I felt like Jaina found the holocron way to soon—that’s supposing that the purpose of the story was “Jaina investigating if the Sky Temple is ancient Jedi ruins,” rather than “Jaina and Jag are finagled into a situation where there will be a firefight. She didn’t get to look around at the ruins at all, just instantly spotted the holocron and then immediately had to deflect blaster bolts in a meh action scene.
I also found the conclusion unsatisfying: we never find out who Pharika was or her group’s aims because she’s dead and her buddies’ ship was blown up. Were they pirates hoping to sell the holocron on the black market, or did they have more nefarious aims? We don’t know! I liked the idea of the Hutts feeling that they owe Jaina and Lando a debt from their ruling on the Treaty of Vontor in Fate of the Jedi: Allies, even though the Klatooinians did uprise against the Hutts, but the Hutt intervention here felt like a way to rule out Hutt help from any future installments—like “we owed you a debt but it’s paid now buh-BYE.”
In Short:
“Getaway” is a short little story that shows Jaina and Jag's rapport while they’re off on their honeymoon. But there’s not a lot to the story, and the questions raised during their adventure remain mostly unsolved by the end. It’s cute, but it doesn’t fill the gap that the cancellation of the Sword of the Jedi trilogy left in a lot of fans (like me!).
Next up: the last chronological novel in the Expanded Universe, Crucible by Troy Denning.
My YouTube review: https://youtu.be/YLw7-a76UP0
“Getaway” by Christie Golden: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17maf...
This week’s focus: a short story about Jagged Fel and Jaina Solo’s honeymoon: “Getaway” by Christie Golden.
Intro:
Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel were married at the end of Apocalypse, the last book in the Fate of the Jedi series, after Jaina was promoted to Jedi Master and Jag stepped down from his position as the Imperial Head of State. This short story depicts their honeymoon, which ends up being far more dangerous than expected. “Getaway” by Christie Golden appeared in Star Wars Insider issue 134 in May of 2012, with artwork by Joe Corroney. It was also reprinted in Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Volume 1.
Summary:
The newly married Jaina Solo and Jag Fel head to the Outer Rim world of Sakuub for their honeymoon, ostensibly to hike to the Sky Temple of Karsol but actually so that Jaina can evaluate if they’re old Jedi ruins. To Jag’s chagrin, the expedition turns into a deadly trap…
The Good:
I was a little disappointed by Jaina and Jag's wedding at the end of Apocalypse, simply because it was really short! Just one brief chapter, and we didn't even hear if any of Jag's family was there. (That does continue the Skywalker/Solo tradition of poorly-executed weddings, though, since Luke nearly missed Han and Leia’s wedding at the end of The Courtship of Princess Leia.) I was very happy to see that “Getaway” spent a little more time with Jaina and Jag and showed how they're settling into married life.
I enjoyed that Jag is not on board with a hiking expedition, and would much rather have spent some time resting and relaxing in the Hapes Cluster. (Hiking for a mission? No problem. Hiking on his honeymoon, and sleeping in a tent? Jag has many unvoiced complaints.) I also enjoyed that “Getaway” is almost solely from Jag's point of view; we see how well he's come to know Jaina, so that without her even saying anything he senses when something's amiss. And in the final fight at the end, Jag doesn’t have Jaina’s Force skills but they’re still able to work together to take down their foes.
The Meh:
“Getaway” is short, around four to five pages. There were even more illustrations than in First Blood or Roll of the Dice, which lent to the feeling that there’s just not a lot of story here. J&J head to Sakuub, meet their guide Pharika, Jaina senses something wrong in the market, a lovey-dovey scene. We skip the bulk of their multi-day hike to their arrival at the Sky Temple of Karsol, where Jaina finds a holocron and they’re attacked by Pharika and her allies. Jag takes down Pharika, but she’s killed by the ship, and then that ship in turn is destroyed by a mystery ship piloted by the Hutt from the market. The Hutt tells Jaina that they’ve paid their debt to her, and now Jaina has to get Jag back down to the city. There’s not much there, and even though Jag was injured I was never truly worried about either Jaina or Jag’s safety here.
Similarly, I felt like Jaina found the holocron way to soon—that’s supposing that the purpose of the story was “Jaina investigating if the Sky Temple is ancient Jedi ruins,” rather than “Jaina and Jag are finagled into a situation where there will be a firefight. She didn’t get to look around at the ruins at all, just instantly spotted the holocron and then immediately had to deflect blaster bolts in a meh action scene.
I also found the conclusion unsatisfying: we never find out who Pharika was or her group’s aims because she’s dead and her buddies’ ship was blown up. Were they pirates hoping to sell the holocron on the black market, or did they have more nefarious aims? We don’t know! I liked the idea of the Hutts feeling that they owe Jaina and Lando a debt from their ruling on the Treaty of Vontor in Fate of the Jedi: Allies, even though the Klatooinians did uprise against the Hutts, but the Hutt intervention here felt like a way to rule out Hutt help from any future installments—like “we owed you a debt but it’s paid now buh-BYE.”
In Short:
“Getaway” is a short little story that shows Jaina and Jag's rapport while they’re off on their honeymoon. But there’s not a lot to the story, and the questions raised during their adventure remain mostly unsolved by the end. It’s cute, but it doesn’t fill the gap that the cancellation of the Sword of the Jedi trilogy left in a lot of fans (like me!).
Next up: the last chronological novel in the Expanded Universe, Crucible by Troy Denning.
My YouTube review: https://youtu.be/YLw7-a76UP0
“Getaway” by Christie Golden: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17maf...
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