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From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

By: Renée Ahdieh, Meg Cabot, Pierce Brown, Nnedi Okorafor, Sabaa Tahir
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, Marc Thompson
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 Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view.

On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, more than forty contributors lend their vision to this retelling of Star Wars. Each of the forty short stories reimagines a moment from the original film, but through the eyes of a supporting character. From a Certain Point of View features contributions by bestselling authors, trendsetting artists, and treasured voices from the literary history of Star Wars:

• Gary Whitta bridges the gap from Rogue One to A New Hope through the eyes of Captain Antilles.
• Aunt Beru finds her voice in an intimate character study by Meg Cabot.
• Nnedi Okorofor brings dignity and depth to a most unlikely character: the monster in the trash compactor.
• Pablo Hidalgo provides a chilling glimpse inside the mind of Grand Moff Tarkin.
• Pierce Brown chronicles Biggs Darklighter’s final flight during the Rebellion’s harrowing attack on the Death Star.
• Wil Wheaton spins a poignant tale of the rebels left behind on Yavin.

Plus thirty-four more hilarious, heartbreaking, and astonishing tales from:
Ben Acker • Renée Ahdieh • Tom Angleberger • Ben Blacker • Jeffrey Brown • Rae Carson • Adam Christopher • Zoraida Córdova • Delilah S. Dawson • Kelly Sue DeConnick • Paul Dini • Ian Doescher • Ashley Eckstein • Matt Fraction • Alexander Freed • Jason Fry • Kieron Gillen • Christie Golden • Claudia Gray • E. K. Johnston • Paul S. Kemp • Mur Lafferty • Ken Liu • Griffin McElroy • John Jackson Miller • Daniel José Older • Mallory Ortberg • Beth Revis • Madeleine Roux • Greg Rucka • Gary D. Schmidt • Cavan Scott • Charles Soule • Sabaa Tahir • Elizabeth Wein • Glen Weldon • Chuck Wendig

Narrated by a full cast, including:
Jonathan Davis
Ashley Eckstein
Janina Gavankar
Jon Hamm
Neil Patrick Harris
January LaVoy
Saskia Maarleveld
Carol Monda
Daniel José Older
Marc Thompson

All participating authors have generously forgone any compensation for their stories. Instead, their proceeds will be donated to First Book—a leading nonprofit that provides new books, learning materials, and other essentials to educators and organizations serving children in need. To further celebrate the launch of this book and both companies’ longstanding relationships with First Book, Penguin Random House has donated $100,000 to First Book, and Disney/Lucasfilm has donated 100,000 children’s books—valued at $1,000,000—to support First Book and their mission of providing equal access to quality education. Over the past sixteen years, Disney and Penguin Random House combined have donated more than eighty-eight million books to First Book. Adventure Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Star Wars Interstellar Funny Witty Bounty Hunter

Critic Reviews

“The Mashup You’ve Been Looking For.”—Tordotcom

“The biggest joy of this collection is turning the page to a new story and realizing which character they'll be jumping to next.”—New York Daily News

“An entertaining, multi-faceted way to revisit that galaxy far, far away.”—Financial Times

“The stories are humorous, heartbreaking, and downright wacky. If you have a favorite Star Wars character, forget them. You’re going to have forty new favorite characters after reading this.”—Comicsverse

“An impressive, and highly entertaining, short story compilation.”—Cinelinx
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I think, although varying in quality, overall this is a fundamental anthology series, it tells the story of a new hope in such a diverse and interesting way that I can't help but want to watch it again, picking out every character I now understand more deeply, and the performances of the cast are nothing short of fantastic, Marc Thompson obviously stealing the limelite with his sheer range and dedication to character acting, but the more famous cast absolutely nail their roles, the timing, inflection and just roleplay here are absolutely worth it. 5 stars on all fronts, even if absolutely every single story didn't thrill me, I enjoyed every minute and am extremely excited about the next two in the series.

the stories and performances.

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An interesting take on the New Hope's story line from all the bit-part characters you recognise from the movie, even if some of them are on screen for only a minute or 2. I was surprised that Hammerhead didn't get his own story, he did get a figurine in the 70's, after all. An entertaining read for any Star Wars fan.

May the Force be with you!

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loved it. great to get the stories perspective from mostly peripheral characters. highly recommend

A REALLY ENTERTAINING LISTEN

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For fans, really great insight of different Star Wars character perspectives from A New Hope

Interesting and Intriguing

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This is a really clever idea, and for the most part it's fun, but far out, do we need the same part of the move from four different perspectives? I was waiting for Cantina scene to be send from the perspective of a fly buzzing around by the end. Anyway, that's just a small gripe. Some of these are good, some of these are okay, some of these are just boring. The performances are just okay, with the odd one being good. Fun if you want a bit of Star Wars, but honestly I won't continue with the rest in the series.

Great premise, quality sporadic

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