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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace . . . Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic

It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the furthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi. With the Jedi at the height of their power, the free citizens of the galaxy are confident in their ability to weather any storm But the even brightest light can cast a shadow, and some storms defy any preparation.

When a shocking catastrophe in hyperspace tears a ship to pieces, the flurry of shrapnel emerging from the disaster threatens an entire system. No sooner does the call for help go out than the Jedi race to the scene. The scope of the emergence, however, is enough to push even Jedi to their limit. As the sky breaks open and destruction rains down upon the peaceful alliance they helped to build, the Jedi must trust in the Force to see them through a day in which a single mistake could cost billions of lives.

Even as the Jedi battle valiantly against calamity, something truly deadly grows beyond the boundary of the Republic. The hyperspace disaster is far more sinister than the Jedi could ever suspect. A threat hides in the darkness, far from the light of the age, and harbors a secret that could strike fear into even a Jedi’s heart.

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	The heroes of the High Republic era return to face a shattered peace and a fearsome foe, following the dramatic events of Light of the Jedi.	In this gripping sequel to Star Wars: The Rising Storm, the light of the Jedi faces its darkest hour.	Padawan Reath Silas is being sent from the cosmopolitan galactic capital of Coruscant to the undeveloped frontier-and he couldn't be less happy about it. He'd rather stay at the Jedi Temple, studying the archives…	Another exciting adventure set in the time of the High Republic! Featuring Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh, Jedi Padawan Reath Silas, and many more...	The brave and wise Jedi Knights and their Padawans will be put to the ultimate test when they confront the anarchistic marauders known as the Nihil. But all is not as it seems...


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Charles Soule is a Brooklyn, New York-based novelist, comic book writer, musician, and attorney. His novels include The Oracle Year and Anyone: A Novel. While he has worked for DC and other publishers, he is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine, and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics (Darth Vader, Poe Dameron, Lando and more), and his creator-owned series Curse Words (with Ryan Browne) and Letter 44 (with Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque).

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CHAPTER ONE

HYPERSPACE. THE LEGACY RUN.

3 hours to impact.

All is well.

Captain Hedda Casset reviewed the readouts and displays built into her command chair for the second time. She always went over them at least twice. She had more than four decades of flying behind her, and figured the double check was a large part of the reason she’d survived all that time. The second look confirmed everything she’d seen in the first.

“All is well,” she said, out loud this time, announcing it to her bridge crew. “Time for my rounds. Lieutenant Bowman, you have the bridge.”

“Acknowledged, Captain,” her first officer replied, standing from his own seat in preparation to occupy hers until she returned from her evening constitutional.

Not every long-haul freighter captain ran their ship like a military vessel. Hedda had seen starships with stained floors and leaking pipes and cracks in their cockpit viewports, lapses that speared her to her very soul. But Hedda Casset began her career as a fighter pilot with the Malastare–Sullust Joint Task Force, keeping order in their little sector on the border of the Mid Rim. She’d started out flying an Incom Z-24, the single-seat fighter everyone just called a Buzzbug. Mostly security missions, hunting down pirates and the like. Eventually, though, she rose to command a heavy cruiser, one of the largest vessels in the fleet. A good career, doing good work.

She’d left Mallust JTF with distinction and moved on to a job captaining merchant vessels for the Byrne Guild—her version of a relaxed retirement. But thirty-plus years in the military meant order and discipline weren’t just in her blood—they were her blood. So every ship she flew now was run like it was about to fight a decisive battle against a Hutt armada, even if it was just carrying a load of ogrut hides from world A to world B. This ship, the Legacy Run, was no exception.

Hedda stood, accepting and returning Lieutenant Jary Bowman’s snapped salute. She stretched, feeling the bones of her spine crackle and crunch. Too many years on patrol in tiny cockpits, too many high-g maneuvers—sometimes in combat, sometimes just because it made her feel alive.

The real problem, though, she thought, tucking a stray strand of gray hair behind one ear, is too many years.

She left the bridge, departing the precise machine of her command deck and walking along a compact corridor into the larger, more chaotic world of the Legacy Run. The ship was a Kaniff Yards Class A modular freight transport, more than twice as old as Hedda herself. That put the craft a bit past her ideal operational life, but well within safe parameters if she was well maintained and regularly serviced—which she was. Her captain saw to that.

The Run was a mixed-use ship, rated for both cargo and passengers—hence “modular” in its designation. Most of the vessel’s structure was taken up by a single gigantic compartment, shaped like a long, triangular prism, with engineering aft, the bridge fore, and the rest of the space allotted for cargo. Hollow boom arms protruded from the central “spine” at regular intervals, to which additional smaller modules could be attached. The ship could hold up to 144 of these, each customizable, to handle every kind of cargo the galaxy had to offer.

Hedda liked that the ship could haul just about anything. It meant you never knew what you were going to get, what weird challenges you might face from one job to the next. She had flown the ship once when half the cargo space in the primary compartment was reconfigured into a huge water tank, to carry a gigantic saberfish from the storm seas on Tibrin to the private aquarium of a countess on Abregado-rae. Hedda and her crew had gotten the beast there safely—not an easy gig. Even harder, though, was getting the creature back to Tibrin three cycles later, when the blasted thing got sick because the countess’s people had no idea how to take care of it. She gave the woman credit, though—she paid full freight to send the saberfish home. A lot of people, nobles especially, would have just let it die.

This particular trip, in comparison, was as simple as they came. The Legacy Run’s cargo sections were about 80 percent filled with settlers heading to the Outer Rim from overpopulated Core and Colony worlds, seeking new lives, new opportunities, new skies. She could relate to that. Hedda Casset had been restless all her life. She had a feeling she’d die that way, too, looking out a viewport, hoping her eyes would land on something she’d never seen before.

Because this was a transport run, most of the ship’s modules were basic passenger configurations, with open seating that converted into beds that were, in theory, comfortable enough to sleep in. Sanitary facilities, storage, a few holoscreens, small galleys, and that was it. For settlers willing to pay for the increased comfort and convenience, some had droid-operated auto-canteens and private sleeping compartments, but not many. These people were frugal. If they’d had credits to begin with, they probably wouldn’t be heading to the Outer Rim to scrape out a future. The dark edge of the galaxy was a place of challenges both exciting and deadly. More deadly than exciting, in truth.

Even the road to get out here is tricky, Hedda thought, her gaze drawn by the swirl of hyperspace outside the large porthole she happened to be passing. She snapped her eyes away, knowing she could end up standing there for twenty minutes if she let herself get sucked in. You couldn’t trust hyperspace. It was useful, sure, it got you from here to there, it was the key to the expansion of the Republic out from the Core, but no one really understood it. If your Navidroid miscalculated the coordinates, even a little, you could end up off the marked route, the main road through whatever hyperspace actually was, and then you’d be on a dark path leading to who knew where. It happened even in the well-traveled hyperlanes near the galactic center, and out here, where the prospectors had barely mapped out any routes . . . well, you had to watch yourself.

She put her concerns out of her mind and continued on her way. The truth was, the Legacy Run was currently speeding along the best-traveled, best-known route to the Outer Rim worlds. Ships moved through this hyperlane constantly, in both directions. Nothing to worry about.

But then, more than nine thousand souls aboard this ship were depending on Captain Hedda Casset to get them safely to their destination. She worried. It was her job.

Hedda exited the corridor and entered the central hull, emerging in a large, circular space, an open spot necessitated by the ship’s structure that had been repurposed as a sort of unofficial common area. A group of children kicked a ball around as adults stood and chatted nearby; all just enjoying a little break from the cramped confines of the modules where they spent most of their time. The space wasn’t fancy, just a bare junction spot where several short corridors met—but it was clean. The ship employed—at its captain’s insistence—an automated maintenance crew that kept its interiors neat and sanitary. One of the custodial droids was spidering its way along a wall at that very moment, performing one of the endless tasks required on a ship the size of the Run.

She took a moment to take stock of this group—twenty people or so, all ages, from a number of worlds. Humans, of course, but also a few four-armed, fur-covered Ardennians, a family of Givin with their distinctive triangular eyes, and even a Lannik with its pinched face, topknot and huge, pointed ears protruding from the side of its head—you didn’t see many of those around. But no matter their planet of origin, they were all just ordinary beings, biding time until their new lives could begin.

One of the kids looked up.

“Captain Casset!” the boy said, a human, olive-skinned with red hair. She knew him.

“Hello, Serj,” Hedda said. “What’s the good word? Everything all right here?”

The other children stopped their game and clustered around her.

“Could use some new holos,” Serj said. “We’ve watched everything in the system.”

“All we got is all we got,” Hedda replied. “And stop trying to slice into the archive to see the age-restricted titles. You think I don’t know? This is my ship. I know everything that happens on the Legacy Run.”

She leaned forward.

“Everything.”

Serj blushed and looked toward his friends, who had also, suddenly, found very interesting things to look at on the absolutely uninteresting floor, ceiling, and walls of the chamber.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Worlds (January 5, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593157710
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593157718
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.57 inches

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Based in Brooklyn, New York, New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule is a writer of novels (graphic and otherwise), comics, screenplays and stories of all types. He plays the guitar fairly well and speaks at least one language.

Born in the Midwest, he spent his early years in Michigan before moving to Asia, where he spent time living in Hong Kong, Manila and Singapore. Stints on the East Coast followed, before settling in New York (apparently) for the long haul.

He is the author of the novels ANYONE and THE ORACLE YEAR, published by HarperCollins' Harper Perennial imprint, as well as LIGHT OF THE JEDI, launch title for STAR WARS:THE HIGH REPUBLIC. In addition to novels, he is a prolific writer of comics, including many titles for Marvel, DC, Image and other comics publishers, such as Undiscovered Country, Death of Wolverine, She-Hulk, Darth Vader, Lando, Curse Words, Letter 44 and long runs on Daredevil, Swamp Thing and Inhuman. Learn more at www.charlessoule.com.

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Customers say the storyline is fresh and set up a great tale for the beginning of the High Republic era. They also appreciate the interesting world building and visual quality. However, some find the plot not super interesting and the side characters dull and too ambitious. Opinions are mixed on the writing style, with some finding it well-written and others finding it bogged down by too much exposition, inconsistency, and wooden. Readers also have mixed feelings about the characterization, with others finding them super-interesting and fleshed out, while others say they're too many characters thrown out there.

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Customers find the storyline great, with a good allegory and interesting start to understanding the Star Wars universe. They also say the book has lots of action, new villains, and a sense of intensity in the confrontations. Readers also mention that it's a perfect read for Star Wars fans and breaks the mold of the series.

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"...There's a nice sense of closure but also a solid story direction for the sequel. All in all, an excellent start to a new series." Read more

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82 customers mention "World building"71 positive11 negative

Customers find the world building interesting, incredible, and awe-inspiring. They also say the book is a very welcome addition to the Star Wars EU, featuring multiple works of brilliance and Force lore.

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"...Multiple works of brilliance are described throughout the novel's pages, innovations that seek to further the warmth of the Core Worlds to the Outer..." Read more

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Customers find the visual quality of the book vividly beautiful, cinematic, and exciting. They also mention the Jedi fighters seem cool.

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"...It’s so freaking cool. He’s knon as the “Blade of Bardotta” and is bloody awesome.And we get more uses of the Force in Part 2...." Read more

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JB

Very imaginative

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Starts a little slow laying the foundation, but soon gets into the action. Author is very descriptive and tells a great story. I recommend the book.
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Light of the Jedi is my new favorite Star Wars book

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Star Wars is my jam. Since Lucasfilm rebooted the canon post-Disney purchase, I’ve been reading all of the adult, young adult, and junior novels (and comics) released. Whenever a new Star Wars book is announced, I always go ahead and preorder it for my Kindle. Then, I wait for the book to be released with some anticipation depending on the topic of any particular book.

HOWEVER, when Star Wars announced the new publishing initiative set during The High Republic Era, I was super pumped. A well-thought out series of books and comics set 200 years prior to The Phantom Menace when the Jedi were at their peak? Yes, please! I was bummed when everything got pushed back to the beginning of 2021 due to COVID, but it’s a small price to pay considering *waves hands in the air* the year that was 2020.

The first adult novel released in The High Republic Era is Charles Soule’s Light of the Jedi. It’s Soule’s first foray into Star Wars novels following his terrific work on the comic side of things. I’ve never read any of Soule’s books prior to this, but it’s likely that I’ll do it at some point now. Why?

Light of the Jedi is the best Star Wars book that I’ve ever read. Some spoilers ahead…

Soule has the responsibility of introducing the entire era to Star Wars fans. The first third of the book kicks off with “The Great Disaster” of the Legacy Run being destroyed in hyperspace. The fragments of the ship then began appearing randomly throughout the galaxy along the Outer Rim causing chaos and destruction.

Enter: the Republic and the Jedi.

Soule manages to introduce dozens of new heroes while, at the same time, giving extensive build to our major characters and not short-changing the minor ones. Avar Kriss. Loden Greatstorm. Jora Malli. Sskeer. Porter Engle. Burryaga. Elzar Mann. Bell Zettifar. And, that’s just some of the Jedi.

The first third of the book gave me such anxiety as the Republic and the Jedi worked to prevent the destruction of the entire Hetzal system. Millions of innocent people are dead before we are even formally introduced to our villains. Before the book is complete, the death count is in the billions.

Enter: the Nihil.

Leading up to The High Republic, the various writers involved in this project talked about how the Nihil were a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen before in Star Wars. Our first real introduction to them is when they brutally decimate some ships evacuating from a planet that suffered destruction due to the “Emergences” from the Legacy Run disaster.

Marchion Ro is the “super villain” of this era, and his character is an incredibly interesting one. As “The Eye” of the Nihil, Ro is responsible for delivering the “Paths” that the Nihil use to get through hyperspace on lanes that the average person doesn’t know exist. What is Ro’s endgame? He clearly wants something and plans on using the Nihil to reach it.

Soule does a terrific job of delivering a great standalone novel, while setting up an entire era of storytelling in the Star Wars universe. The book is going to receive a lot of praise, and it’s deserving of it all.

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Greg Castro

Slightly slow in the middle but gripping in the first and third acts

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I didn't mind the myriad characters in this book as much as some other reviewers. You learn to kind of just go with the flow if you read enough Star Wars novels. You can't always be Googling every name or species that comes up. And it's hard for the writer to organically remind you in every chapter.

But beyond that, I think Charles Soule did an amazing job setting up this new era of Star Wars novels. He does a perfect, perfect job of portraying an age where the Jedi are a source of hope for everyone in the galaxy. Chapter after chapter features goose bump-inducing acts of heroism where the Jedi lay down their lives or draw upon themselves and the Force in a way you haven't read before. The Republic is also awe-inspiring, with their charismatic Chancellor (for once not an evil old man), and their new Starlight Beacon space station. The Nihil, the High Republic's villains, are a good counterpoint, a sort of cynical, selfish mirror to the Republic's call to responsibility and selflessness.

The first hundred pages or so deal with the Great Hyperspace Disaster, which is a suitably apocalyptic event resulting from pieces of a freighter emerging out of hyperspace at random intervals and locations to kill billions across the galaxy. It leads to some really dark scenarios that make the Jedi that much more heroic when they rise to the occasion. The investigation to get to the bottom of this disaster sags a little in the middle, as we get a lot of scenes of the villains twirling their mustaches and the Jedi having solemn conversations with various galactic officials.

But by story's end, it all culminates in some powerful battles where we come to love the heroes and hate the villains even more. There's a nice sense of closure but also a solid story direction for the sequel. All in all, an excellent start to a new series.

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Damian

Awesome 👌

Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2024

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I love this book 📖 every Star Wars fan should read 📚 this! It's that good 👍 I can't wait for book two.

Victor

Inicio prometedor

Reviewed in Spain on May 13, 2023

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El libro es evidentemente una introducción a lo que es The High Republic. Pero no por ello pierde el hilo de la historia, que en cierto modo se cierra, lo que da sensación de conclusión a algunas de las tramas presentadas. Los personajes son interesantes, el trasfondo está muy cuidado y la historia se mueve a ritmo trepidante. Me ha enganchado mucho más de lo que esperaba.

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Luis Ángel Enríquez Dotor

High Republic, una historia épica y sublime.

Reviewed in Mexico on March 2, 2021

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Llegó en excelentes condiciones. Lo que más me emociona es que es primera edición con idioma original (inglés) valió la pena la espera de esta magnífica historia. Si eres muy fan de Star Wars y eres de mente abierta para explorar lo nuevo de esta galaxia muy muy lejana de Disney, disfrutarás el libro al máximo. Sin duda High Republic comparte lo épico con el universo expandido de Old Republic. Como consejo no le hagan prejuicios a esta nueva historia, léanla y de verdad que les va a gustar.

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Luciano Nader de Araujo

O começo de uma nova era!

Reviewed in Brazil on February 8, 2021

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Este livro marca o início de uma nova era para fãs de Star Wars. Novos personagens, novos inimigos, e todo um novo momento na galáxia tão distante. O autor traz um ritmo de leitura muito agradável, com algumas histórias entrelaçadas e paralelas, fazendo o leitor se envolver com os personagens. Um dos melhores livros de Star Wars que já li.

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TJ

Tolle Geschichte aber auch Bildhafte Gewalt.

Reviewed in Germany on March 23, 2022

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Ich habe mir das buch gekauft, da ich einfach gerne jedes kleinste canon detail aufschnappen wollte.
Die Story hat mich keineswegs enttäuscht und die Fülle an Charaktären die in diesem buch jedoch vorkommen überfordert mich hin und wieder. Sie werden zwar sehr detailreich angesprochen kommen aber jedoch zu ungleichmäsig vor um sich wirklich ein duchgängiges bild dieser charaktäre machen zu können.

Ich habe auch einige Rezensionen von besorgten Eltern gelesen, die sich nicht sehr über die Gewalt in diesem Buch freuen. Meiner Meinung nach haben die Bücher keine schlimmeren Szenen als die die man aus den Serien und den Filmen kennt. Man sollte sich jedoch auch vor Augen führen, dass es immer schlimmer klingt wenn ein Schuss zwischen die Augen deteilreich beschrieben wird! Ob ich das nun lese oder im Film sehe macht für mich kein unterschied und liegt eigentlich auch noch im Ramen.

Im gesamten finde ich das Buch sehr gelungen und wird vermutlich keinen StarWars Fan enttäuschen.

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