Star Wars The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest, Vol. 1

At Luke Skywalker’s request, Talon Karrde mounts an expedition to rescue the young students. Anakin Solo has his own ideas. Impatient, and figuring that forgiveness is easier to come by than permission, he takes off for Yavin 4 in his X-wing.

When it comes to confidence, courage, and raw Force talent, Anakin has few peers. But when his friend Tahiri is separated from the other academy kids and captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, even Anakin may be in over his head. For the aliens have a different future in mind for Tahiri, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their horrific ends . . .

The dazzling Star Wars space adventure continues in The New Jedi Order as Luke Skywalker, Anakin Solo, Mara Jade Skywalker, and others battle their deadliest enemy in a tale of nonstop action, shadowy evil, and spectacular triumph . . .

No longer content with the destruction the Yuuzhan Vong have already sown, Warmaster Tsavong Lah has demanded the heads of all the Jedi. Now the Jedi Knights are in terrible danger–and none more so than the young students at the Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Already the sympathizers known as the Peace Brigade are in the Yavin system–and a Yuuzhan Vong fleet is not far behind.

At Luke Skywalker’s request, Talon Karrde mounts an expedition to rescue the young students. Anakin Solo has his own ideas. Impatient, and figuring that forgiveness is easier to come by than permission, he takes off for Yavin 4 in his X-wing.

When it comes to confidence, courage, and raw Force talent, Anakin has few peers. But when his friend Tahiri is separated from the other academy kids and captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, even Anakin may be in over his head. For the aliens have a different future in mind for Tahiri, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their horrific ends . . .

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This first volume of the Edge of Victory series is set 25 years after the events of the original Star Wars movie. In the New Jedi Order, the Star Wars galaxy is threatened by the Yuuzhan Vong, a humanoid species who have been traveling in organic world ships from another galaxy for countless years and who are on a religious quest to destroy all non-organic machines. They have already conquered half of the galaxy by the time this series begins. The Jedi are the only warriors who have had any success against the Vong and as a result the Vong have cynically let it be known that if the unconquered worlds deliver the Jedi to the Vong then the rest of the galaxy will be spared. When the Vong attack the Yavin Jedi Academy, Anakin Solo must go to save the young Jedi. In the process of infiltrating the Vong stronghold, Anakin learns a great deal about the Vong social order. (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory 1) KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Ballantine, Del Rey, Lucas Books, 291p., $6.99. Ages 16 to adult. Reviewer: Hugh M. Flick,_Jr.; Silliman College, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT , September 2001 (Vol. 35 No. 5)

Under the name J. Gregory Keyes, Greg Keyes is the #1 bestselling author of The Age of Reason series, featuring Newton’s Cannon, A Calculus of Angels, Empire of Unreason, and the upcoming The Shadows of God. He is also the author of The Blackgod and The Waterborn. Keyes is a teacher at the University of Georgia and is pursuing a Ph.D. in the anthropology of belief systems and mythology. He was born in Mississippi and was raised there and on a Navajo reservation in Arizona.