We return to Kevin J. Anderson, the Expanded Universe's evil puppet master, for his 1995 piece of shit Darksaber. This book is bad in all the ways you'd expect a KJA book to be, but also in plenty of new ways! It also foreshadows the ways that Star Wars will be bad thirty years after this because KJA and Dave Filoni have way more in common than is comfortable. Topics include Han Solo being a "where's my hug?" guy, Kevin J. Anderson's constant racism/misogyny/fatphobia, if Kevin J. Anderson killed his transcriptionist, and Callista's insistence on not giving Luke disgusting half-breed children.

Content warnings include misogyny, racism, fatphobia, and eugenics.

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We finish up Roger MacBride Allen's Corellian trilogy with 1995's Showdown at Centerpoint. Does Roger stick the landing? Did the ending of this book get rushed due to page count limits from the publisher? Does the New Republic handle its crisis of legitimacy in a way that allows for future sedition in the exact same way? Listen to find out! Topics include the dropped ball of Gaeriel Captison's daughter, the evolutionary origin of humans in Star Wars, Han Solo's cultural chauvinism, and Lando marrying a woman he's spent a total of four hours with.

Content warnings include racism, xenophobia, colonialism, and mentions of suicide.

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We get something a little different with 1995 short story collection Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina. Some of the stories are genuinely very good! Some of them are very bad! And all of them make up a book that's one of the prime suspects in the franchisization of Star Wars. Topics include if it's necessary for every weirdo in the cantina scene in Star Wars to be doing something of galactic importance, the Force being more mystical and unexplainable in some of these stories, and the exciting and deserved fate of the disgusting misogynist pickup artist with the big cones on his head.

Content warnings include sexual assault, misogyny, racism, references to ethnic cleansing, and general physical violence.

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