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RAZOR’S EDGE: STAR WARS (EMPIRE AND REBELLION)

Martha Wells

Del Rey/LucasBooks

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Tentative On-Sale Date: September 24, 2013

Tentative Publication Month: October 2013

Tentative Print Price: $27. 00

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By Martha Wells

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Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion: Razor’s Edge is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. , New York.

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This book contains an excerpt from TK by TK. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.

ISBN 978-0-345-54524-4

eBook ISBN 978-0-345-54568-8

Book design by Christopher M. Zucker

To all the friends I met through Star Wars fandom all those years ago. Especially Z. P. Florian—wish you were here.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’d like to thank Jennifer Jackson, Shelly Shapiro, and Jennifer Heddle for giving me the opportunity to do this book.

When Star Wars came out in 1977, I was thirteen years old. I had always had a lot of trouble trying to convince my parents to take me to movies, so I read the novelization first. I ended up being able to see the movie nine times while it was still in the theater. That doesn’t sound like a lot compared with the numbers that some people managed, but for where I was in my life at that time, it was an achievement.

So Star Wars was a huge revelation. I wasn’t alone, I wasn’t a freak, there were tons of people who liked SF/F and this movie, and here was the proof. I bought as many of the toys and books as I could. I found Starlog magazine, and I discovered fanzines and fanfiction, which led me to finding other fans and SF conventions, and made me a lifelong fan. Over the years, other movies and TV shows took Star Wars’ place to a certain extent, but you never forget your first fandom love.