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From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

By: Renée Ahdieh, Meg Cabot, Pierce Brown, Nnedi Okorafor, Sabaa Tahir
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, Marc Thompson
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About this listen

 Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view.

On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, more than forty contributors lend their vision to this retelling of Star Wars. Each of the forty short stories reimagines a moment from the original film, but through the eyes of a supporting character. From a Certain Point of View features contributions by bestselling authors, trendsetting artists, and treasured voices from the literary history of Star Wars:

• Gary Whitta bridges the gap from Rogue One to A New Hope through the eyes of Captain Antilles.
• Aunt Beru finds her voice in an intimate character study by Meg Cabot.
• Nnedi Okorofor brings dignity and depth to a most unlikely character: the monster in the trash compactor.
• Pablo Hidalgo provides a chilling glimpse inside the mind of Grand Moff Tarkin.
• Pierce Brown chronicles Biggs Darklighter’s final flight during the Rebellion’s harrowing attack on the Death Star.
• Wil Wheaton spins a poignant tale of the rebels left behind on Yavin.

Plus thirty-four more hilarious, heartbreaking, and astonishing tales from:
Ben Acker • Renée Ahdieh • Tom Angleberger • Ben Blacker • Jeffrey Brown • Rae Carson • Adam Christopher • Zoraida Córdova • Delilah S. Dawson • Kelly Sue DeConnick • Paul Dini • Ian Doescher • Ashley Eckstein • Matt Fraction • Alexander Freed • Jason Fry • Kieron Gillen • Christie Golden • Claudia Gray • E. K. Johnston • Paul S. Kemp • Mur Lafferty • Ken Liu • Griffin McElroy • John Jackson Miller • Daniel José Older • Mallory Ortberg • Beth Revis • Madeleine Roux • Greg Rucka • Gary D. Schmidt • Cavan Scott • Charles Soule • Sabaa Tahir • Elizabeth Wein • Glen Weldon • Chuck Wendig

Narrated by a full cast, including:
Jonathan Davis
Ashley Eckstein
Janina Gavankar
Jon Hamm
Neil Patrick Harris
January LaVoy
Saskia Maarleveld
Carol Monda
Daniel José Older
Marc Thompson

All participating authors have generously forgone any compensation for their stories. Instead, their proceeds will be donated to First Book—a leading nonprofit that provides new books, learning materials, and other essentials to educators and organizations serving children in need. To further celebrate the launch of this book and both companies’ longstanding relationships with First Book, Penguin Random House has donated $100,000 to First Book, and Disney/Lucasfilm has donated 100,000 children’s books—valued at $1,000,000—to support First Book and their mission of providing equal access to quality education. Over the past sixteen years, Disney and Penguin Random House combined have donated more than eighty-eight million books to First Book. Adventure Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Star Wars Interstellar Funny Witty Thought-Provoking Bounty Hunter

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Critic reviews

“The Mashup You’ve Been Looking For.”—Tordotcom

“The biggest joy of this collection is turning the page to a new story and realizing which character they'll be jumping to next.”—New York Daily News

“An entertaining, multi-faceted way to revisit that galaxy far, far away.”—Financial Times

“The stories are humorous, heartbreaking, and downright wacky. If you have a favorite Star Wars character, forget them. You’re going to have forty new favorite characters after reading this.”—Comicsverse

“An impressive, and highly entertaining, short story compilation.”—Cinelinx
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This a book of hilarious and tragic backstories to A New Hope. I was blown away by some of the angles of personal stories. The tiniest details in the main film were thoroughly explored. It flashed out the Star Wars Universe and that is always a good thing. Why are you even reading this? Buy the book already!

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some great stories here with unique perspectives on the events of A New Hope. a couple were overly long and didn't pull me in but most of them were really well done and many brought a smile to my face while reading then

well worth a read

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Really enjoyed the majority of the stories. Some great insight into some of the background characters - but one or two are just painful to listen to.

The noise droid one is pointless, and whilst I understand that they are trying to humanise storm troopers in some - they end up making most to be characters from a slap stick comedy.

But if you can overlook those few and are a true Star Wars fan this is a great book. On to FACPOV Empire now.

Interesting

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It encapsulates everything you love, from a new hope and brings more loveable, hopeful, dangerous, interesting, cold, intelligent, evil characters and tells, the first star wars movie from their different, perspectives

Encapsulating

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Brilliant write of short stories in and around Episode 4. I really enjoyed listening to the stories and interpretation of events from the background characters.

insightful

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