Last week, Disney and Lucasfilm announced "Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens," a collection of novels and comics that would bridge the gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The first major piece of that puzzle will be Star Wars: Aftermath, a novel written by acclaimed author and all-around penmonkey Chuck Wendig.
The greater implication of this, of course, is that the Internet is just a magical tube of paste that you can just squeeze really hard to make wishes come true.
Dear Internet: I wanna write a licensed STAR WARS novel. Please make this happen.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) September 4, 2014
*squeezes Internet hard enough to make wishes fall out*
Word of this novel was making the rounds on social media earlier this week when a listing for the novel popped up on the Random House website, but the announcement today on StarWars.com gives us more meaningful details. For example, Aftermath is the first book in a trilogy that will take place after the Battle of Endor (you know. Where the Ewoks were).
"My earliest - and still one of my best - movie-going experiences as a kid was being a four-year-old watching The Empire Strikes Back at a drive-in theater with my sister," Wendig says in the announcement. "My jaw dropped and I don't think I've found it, yet. Those movies opened up a world for me, and my love of storytelling comes from them and from the galaxy of smaller, connected stories, too - from the toys to the games to the books. In fact, one of the first novels I ever read was the novelization of A New Hope. I have a son who will in a few short months be my age when I saw Empire, so to be involved with the Star Wars universe just as the new film is coming out - it feels like not only something akin to kismet, but a great and powerful privilege."
The book will be released on September 4.
