The Dividing Factor
Star Wars Fan Fiction Review
Author's web site:
http://sweb.uky.edu/~eejens2/tdfenter.html
Summary
When the human race is threatened by a possible
genocide, Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara Jade find themselves
tossed into the center of the crisis. Only to realize quickly,
things are not how they seem...
Critic: Alan
Let me start by saying that I read
a lot of fan fiction. From all types of sources but most of them are
scant more than a paragraph or two in a “what if” kind of situation.
This however is not like that. This story is exactly that, a story, a
week out of the Skywalker’s life that was particularly distressing. It
is a quite enjoyable read and the author “Niralle” should write
professionally because there is a storyteller’s talent in that one.
Now on to the story. If you keep up with the Star Wars expanded
universe then we find ourselves well after Return of the Jedi and Luke
is now the Jedi master training his own academy. This story has
imagination, feeling, and characters that you feel emotionally
invested in. The average person that has seen any of the Star Wars
movies gets only a glimpse of what a Jedi should be able to do. Our
imaginations allow us to think of what we would do if we had those
powers. This story shows us that Luke and Mara have a grand
imagination. For a good science fiction read I highly recommend this
story. For a good Episode three I recommend that Lucas contacts this
Niralle for some tips in the “what should a Jedi be able to do”
department.
Critic: Aaron
This is my first experience with
Star Wars: Expanded Universe. I have not read a lot of EU
because I see the movies as "cannon" and the EU as fan fiction that is
is just some story someone wanted to tell. This story is good.
Dang good. I am only 39% through it right now though. But
what I have read so far is good enough to be stretched into a full
blown novel. I also agree with Alan that George Lucas is very
small minded in his story telling. At least when it comes to
what can be done with the Force. In this story we see Luke and
wife Mara use the force in ways that a true Master and Jedi should use
them . When 2 Jedi combine their powers to "force blast" an
entire group of people through walls and out of windows then you are
getting close to what can be accomplished with the Force. This
book is a must read for and Star Wars fan. At 129 pages in
Microsoft Word format I thought about printing it out, making it into
a real book and putting it on the shelf with all the other books I
read. If all EU books are like this than I will start reading
them all...right now! I recommend this book to everyone!! So go
read it! I copied the story into .txt file then
converted it into a DOC file for my palm pilot. I read it
everywhere I go.
http://cgi.theforce.net/theforce/tfn.cgi?storyID=20825
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