![]() ![]() ![]() The first book of the Aftermath trilogy, entitled simply “Aftermath”, takes place immediately after the events of Return of the Jedi but before The Force Awakens and is set on a fairly remote planet where a handful of high-ranking imperials are trying to regroup after the Rebel Alliance succeeded in destroying the Death Star and killing Vader and the Emperor. ![]() I read several Star Wars books as a child and have recently started poking around in the EU again, so I decided to find out for myself if Aftermath genuinely deserved the gruesome skewering it got online. Most of the criticism didn’t lead in with homophobia, and some didn’t mention the gay characters at all, but it felt like a very peculiar coincidence that after decades of shrugging off plenty of resoundingly mediocre Star Wars books with a “meh”, the fandom chose this one in particular to shred to pieces for its (allegedly) atrocious writing style, boring characters, and sloppy story. Since I have an ear tilted eternally to both queer news and Star Wars news, I was immediately intrigued, but also completely prepared for the barrage of vitriol the Star Wars fandom started spewing as soon as the book was published. ![]() Back in 2015, the internet got itself into a bit of a tizzy over the news that an important Star Wars novel called Aftermath had been released, and that one of the main characters was gay. ![]()
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