Whats the Black Fleet Crisis about?
It’s about 300,000 words… Sorry, old writer’s joke. But there’s a germ of truth in it–my outline for the trilogy was 20 manuscript pages, and I wasn’t happy with how well that captured the “what’s it about” for these books. I almost always hate any one-or two-paragraph summary of my novels, whether written by me, a publisher, or a reviewer. Those capsules so rarely capture what the book feels like to me–because a novel is so much more than a summary of its plot. Most all of the interesting dimensions are necessarily left out. With those caveats… THE BLACK FLEET CRISIS begins sixteen years after SW, in a time of peace for the New Republic–and with peace comes the first real chance for the weary warriors of the Rebellion, now in mid-life, to turn their attention to personal concerns which have taken a back seat to the duties and obligations of leadership. Han is placed on detached duty as he commits himself to parenting and protecting the children. Chewbacca goes home to Kashyyyk
