And that isn’t all. Obi-Wan’s life after death is just one of 40 stories in Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, which features several major characters and events in the Star Wars universe.
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Out October 3, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View features 40 different in-canon short stories to celebrate the franchise’s 40 year anniversary. But we already knew that. We just assumed, though, that it was only going to contain super random niche stories. It won’t.
Many of the book’s authors just revealed the titles and subjects of their stories, and there are some damn good ones. One that stood out, though, is Time of Death by Cavan Scott. Here’s his description.
FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW IS COMING, PEOPLE!! https://t.co/8evvTgrTnJ #FromACertainPOV pic.twitter.com/2GIdMHbSch
— Cavan Scott (@cavanscott) September 14, 2017
We know that Obi-Wan dies at the hands of Darth Vader and becomes a Force Ghost. We also know a bit about how Force Ghosting works thanks to The Clone Wars. But to potentially explore the Jedi’s mind after death, on the journey, is incredibly exciting. What was he thinking of? Did he know or acknowledge what he was doing? Was that always the plan when he left Tatooine? How much actual preparation for death had he been doing in his isolation? So many cool questions could be answered by this story and I can’t wait to read it.
And again, that’s just one of the 40 stories in this book. Here are a few other intriguing-sounding entries revealed this week.
AND SO IT CAN BE REVEALED. For #FromACertainPOV, I’m tackling a certain droid-hating cantina barkeep… pic.twitter.com/vP5TI5V8Ev
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) September 14, 2017
My story in #FromACertainPOV opens the anthology by bridging the gap between ROGUE ONE and A NEW HOPE! Pre-order: https://t.co/RflvIppUzV pic.twitter.com/fwsy5d6KUk
— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) September 14, 2017
This is Boba Fett. @Paul_Dini #FromaCertainPOV pic.twitter.com/b7YDINYkp7
— Star Wars Books (@DelReyStarWars) September 14, 2017
Hey, Twitter! @HerUniverse and I wrote you a thing. #FromACertainPOV https://t.co/F8mhmmhfTz pic.twitter.com/UYw2XLEIkR
— EK Johnston (@ek_johnston) September 14, 2017
My entry into this amazing anthology–the trooper who turned Leia in…#FromACertainPOV pic.twitter.com/FVRvxsbHXh
— Christie Golden (@ChristieGolden) September 14, 2017
Looked up an old friend for my From A Certain Point of View story, celebrating A New Hope’s 40th birthday! Preorder: https://t.co/aQpbP1o5CI pic.twitter.com/Mh6HobGZSg
— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) September 14, 2017
So that’s six more of the 40 stories in the book. You have one about everyone’s favourite bartender Wuher, a bridge between Rogue One and A New Hope, a Boba Fett story, happenings at the New Hope medal ceremony, the story of the Stormtrooper who captured Princess Leia, and a tale of when Lando owned the Millennium Falcon.
That’s just… awesome. So, so awesome. We were already excited for this book, but now, how can you not want to immediately tear into this thing?
Several other authors posted their brief excerpts, too, and /Film did a fine job rounding those up, so check that out at the below link.
And here’s the full author list.
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6 responses to “The New Star Wars Anthology Book Will Cover Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Life After Death”
Yes, because if there’s one story that I’ve been questioning for 40 years is what happened to Obi-Wan after he died…
need a story about Major Bren Derlin https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/JohnRatzenberger08RIIFF.jpg
That sounds nothing like how Obi-wan would think or talk. Even as a Force Ghost.
“Cavan Scott is an author known for writing four of the novels in the Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space young readers series.”
So if you were wondering why, that pretty much explains it.
Huh. Thanks for that. Looks like a pass from me then.
Right? It sounds like it belongs in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, or one of those stereotypical teen movies right after the record scratch and the footage pauses on Kenobi’s ghost face. “Hi, I’m Ben. You’re probably wondering how I got in this situation.” Ugh.