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  • Star Wars: Outbound Flight

  • By: Timothy Zahn
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
  • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (243 ratings)
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By: Timothy Zahn
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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Summary

It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery - only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend...and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable - and doomed - Outbound Flight Project. 

The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, 12 Jedi Knights, and 50,000 men, women, and children, will embark - aboard a gargantuan vessel, equipped for years of travel - on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. The government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even start - until Master C’baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.

Or so it would seem. For unknown to the famed Jedi Master, successful launch of the mission is secretly being orchestrated by an unlikely ally: the evil Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who has his own reasons for wanting Outbound Flight to move forward...and, ultimately, to fail.

Yet Darth Sidious is not the mission's most dangerous challenge. Once underway, the starship crosses paths at the edge of Unknown Space with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind best known as “Thrawn”. Even Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, aboard Outbound Flight with his young Padawan student, Anakin Skywalker, cannot help avert disaster. Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival against staggering odds and the most diabolical of adversaries.

Timothy Zahn's unique mix of espionage, political gamesmanship, and deadly interstellar combat breathes electrifying life into a Star Wars legend.

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Critic reviews

"An enthralling page-turner." (Publishers Weekly)

"Davis' range is astounding. He captures numerous well-known voices...with perfection." (AudioFile)

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Hard to get into with curent canon

First of all, I love Zahn. But this is a hard book to get into if you got used to current canon, cause it has many contradictions.

Also, even bigger problem for me is that I got used to Marc Thompson's Thrawn impression which is copying Lars Mikkelsen's Thrawn from Star Wars Rebels. Marc is brilliant while Jonathan is just decent. Not bad, but not nearly as good as Marc who can do so many voices that he practically turns each book into one-man radio drama.

If you love new Thrawn books and are used to new canon, skip this one for now.

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Good but disappointing audio book

Having read the book several times I found parts of this book far more dramatic as an audio book. I did find large parts from the book and story line missing which is why I only gave two stars. If you’ve not read the book then it will be a great introduction to Thrawn.

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i miss something, but its not all the book!!!

i love it, good to listen when i driving, but i noticed for a few missing part. and when i finished the book just take off the shelf my book form, and i know well, a few (approx 1/20 of the book) is missing. so im so disappointed....

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Good but stops very abruptly.

Good listen and I enjoyed it alot but the ending is very truncated. It just stops without the proper wrap ip of the book. The book loses some impact without those final scenes.

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Ending missing

The ending is missing from the audio version versus the book. Disappointing for an avid Thrawn and Zahn fan.

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love this story

provides so much insight into Thrawns early years and leaves so much room for speculation and possible ideas for new cannon stories

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Enjoyable overall story

This was a good story, again detailing the brilliance that is Thrawn. Ties in nicely with mainstream stories but is enough distanced to be a standalone story

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Feels heavily (and badly) abridged

I made an error with this book straight off the bat by not realising it was now a Legends story. In my eagerness to find more Thrawn I assumed it was Canon. This caused issues with my experience as a lot of it was therefore contradictory - however once I’d gotten past my mistake it still didn’t feel like a complete story. Characters disappearing or behaving erratically, story threads making zero sense then abruptly stopping… it was then I noted it was an “abridged” version, which in this case appears to be akin to plastic surgery using a blunt wood saw. It may be that the novel is much better but this version is pretty butchered and felt really bad…. Shame.

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quality twists and turns

brilliant story telling of a well rounded and exciting story. Highly reccomended for any star wars fan

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Good listen but incomplete story

Great book but missing the end and leaving the story incomplete leaving plot gaps

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