From the Desk of John Jackson Miller
Dear Readers,
Every story has a beginning. When the story is
Star Wars, readers know there have been quite a few beginnings, indeed!
The first film in 1977 was the beginning, of course — but then when it was rereleased, it was suddenly subtitled
Episode IV, indicating something had come before. In 1999, we finally got
Episode I, another beginning. But by then, far earlier tales had been told, filling in the generations during which, as Obi-Wan Kenobi told us, "the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic." We got the origins of the Galaxy Far, Far Away — and the origins of the origins.
Most of my early work for
Star Wars was in that ancient pre-
Episode I period, writing comics and prose for
Knights of the Old Republic,
Knight Errant, and
Lost Tribe of the Sith. When I finally wrote my
Star Wars: Kenobi novel last year, it was, in a timeline sense, the closest I had ever gotten to the films I had grown up with. But even it was a beginning, telling of Obi-Wan's first days of exile on desert Tatooine. I've never written anything set after
Return of the Jedi; preludes and precursors seem to be my stock in trade.
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