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  Tales of the Bounty Hunters Looks like the banner for a trading card set. IG-88: Therefore I Am by Keven J. Anderson: 4/5 Strong start. One of the best of Anderson's Star Wars  contributions. IG-88 is a droid that uploads its programming into 4 identical droids. They become fairly successful bounty hunters, take over Mechis III (the same planet the Thul family is in charge of in YJKs), and eventually uploads itself into the second Death Star. They all get blown up between that, Boba Fett, and Dash Rendar. Dengar: Payback by Dave Wolverton: 2/5 This is a good story, but not a good Star Wars story. Too much that doesn't really line up with the rest of the universe, like Dengar's bounty hunting customs (giving his target a blaster). The romantic subplot could probably work with a bit more development. Dengar's a cyborg who had most of his emotions surgically removed, but he brain links with a tech-telepath dancer. Bossk: The Prize Pelt by Kathy Tyers: 3/5 Tyers is a cons...

Crystal Star 2   The New Rebellion This was fucking stupid. This is the book everyone thinks Crystal Star is. Some Darth Vader cosplaying loser (he was a student at Luke's academy. No, he's never shown up before.) is turning droids into bombs. Every time he kills someone he gets more powerful, soon he will be more powerful than Luke! (Somehow, this didn't work for the Emperor/Vader.) Brakiss is back, because... dunno? She needed an extra dark Jedi to dump exposition and pad the book another hundred pages. Speaking of padding, there's an entire Han Solo/Lando plot that makes no sense and I couldn't even tell you what happens in it. I think they fight hippo dragons? Yeah, there's a lot of random aliens in this book that aren't very well described. Most of them never show up again. It's 1996, there are enough aliens you can get by without making up shitty ones, but whatever. Wedge shows up! He's an idiot. Leia is useless. (Rusch claims that the male aut...