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Compiled from the popular Star Wars Adventure Journal, this short‑story anthology includes tales by veteran writers such as Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, and Kathy Tyers, as well as emerging voices like Erin Endom, Laurie Burns, and Patricia A. Jackson. The stories showcase daring missions: a civilian mail courier evading an Imperial blockade, a commando raid on an impregnable prison, and a Corellian smuggler hired by an actor‑turned‑Jedi‑turned‑Imperial assassin.
The collection’s centerpiece is the novella "Side Trip," the first collaboration between Zahn and Stackpole. It follows a freighter smuggling arms for the Rebels that is seized by an Imperial Star Destroyer commanded by a mysterious figure claiming to be bounty hunter Jodo Kast, as part of a scheme involving Hal and Corran Horn, undercover agents targeting the Corellian warlord Zekka Thyne.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Peter Schweighofer
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