Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View -

Renée Ahdieh, Tom Angleberger, Christie Golden, Nnedi Okorafor, Madeleine Roux, Sabaa Tahir, Chuck Wendig, Gary Whitta, Meg Cabot, Rae Carson, Claudia Gray, Christopher Golden, Zoraida Córdova, Daniel José Older, Delilah S. Dawson, E.K. Johnston, Mur Lafferty

Del Rey

2017

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-10: 0345511476

Forty years. Forty stories.

In honor of the fortieth anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope, this collection features Star Wars stories by bestselling authors, trendsetting artists, and treasured voices from Star Wars literary history. More than forty authors have lent their unique vision to forty “scenes,” each retelling a different moment from the original Star Wars film, but with a twist: Every scene is told from the point of view of a background character. Whether it’s the X-wing pilots who helped Luke destroy the Death Star or the stormtroopers who never quite could find the droids they were looking for, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View places the classic movie in a whole new perspective, and celebrates the influence and legacy of the unparalleled cultural phenomenon, Star Wars.

Resenhas (5)

5 (Perfeito)

"He reached the rocks, and then he stopped.
He felt it again.
It wasn’t a droid. Nor was it one of the Empire’s ships.
He reached out again.
It wasn’t even for him.
And then it shifted, and it was for him. [...]
It was Obi-Wan.
Yoda leaned against the stones and smiled. Their exile had been too long and too lonely. But had the two ofthem remained together,the Empire would surely have found them. And there was the other Skywalker to watch over—impetuous, headstrong, unruly, inattentive. He needed Obi-Wan’s eye on him. Unlike the other, whose strength and will and clarity showed all the markings of a great Jedi."

Isso significa que Yoda queria treinar Leia? Eu ouvi essa teoria no fandom.
Esse foi o ebook de 400 páginas que eu li mais rápido na minha vida. Como eu não suporto e-books de mais de 100 páginas, prefiro mil vezes o livro físico, isso não é pouca coisa. Esse é o poder de Star Wars.
De todas as histórias, as minhas favoritas são sobre a captura da princesa Leia, sobre a destruição de Alderaan do ponto de vista de Bail e Breha e sobre Yoda sentindo o resultado do encontro entre Vader e Kenobi.

"And then, another vibration came—and this one, too, was familiar. This one was hard and strong, and it pulsed fiercely. In its rhythm it carried… arrogance. In its rhythm, it carried darkness.
And in its rhythm, it carried—this was the first that Yoda had ever noticed it—a terrible, angry, despairing loneliness.
Loneliness!
It was Anakin…or what had become of him. And he was in pain. And the remedy he used to soothe himself was pain—the pain of both others and himself. Yoda brought his hand to the center of his chest.
Then the two vibrations met, and their pulses fought across the back of the Force."

O conto sobre Alderaan no momento da destruição é simplesmente devastador, não nego que chorei ao imaginar. E o sobre Yoda sentindo a solidão de Anakin…. Eu acho incrível que todos os autores souberam captar o tom de cada acontecimento, mesmo quando tal acontecimento nós vimos pouco ou nada nos filmes (ex. a destruição do planeta do ponto de vista dos habitantes). Eu não imaginava que ia gostar tanto assim, mas adorei. Um ebook completamente indicado.