We conclude Big Tim's iconic trilogy with 1993's The Last Command. Topics include how you could escape an asteroid blockade of your planet, what exactly Mara Jade's duties were as the Emperor's Hand, and what Leia and Han's other picks for baby names were.

Content warnings include racism, colonialism, and general physical violence.

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The regret continues as we conclude Paul and Hollace Davids' horrible 1993 children's series. Somehow these books are even more insane than the first three. Topics include whether archaeologists can get ghosts from licking bones, the environmental tradeoffs often made by developing nations/planets while building their economies, and how much J.J. Abrams stole the plot of the sequel trilogy from these books.

Content warnings include racism, misogyny, anti-semitism, and ableism.

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(There are some issues with specifically Ethan's audio in this one. We regret the error.)

Regrettably, we cover a trilogy of children's Star Wars books published in 1992 by married writing team Paul & Hollace Davids. These were not fun to read, but we had fun roasting them! Topics include the incredible racism of the 1980s Transformers cartoon, whether children deserve good books to read, the unfortunate stereotypes the Prophets of the Dark Side may be treading on, and droid misogyny.

Content warnings include misogyny, racism, and anti-semitism.

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We continue Big Tim's iconic trilogy with 1992's Dark Force Rising! Topics include US/Imperial debt trap neocolonialism, the white Saw Gerrera, and C'baoth wanting to preserve the purity of the Jedi race.

Content warnings include misogyny, racism, white nationalism, colonialism, imperialism, and general physical violence.

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https://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html

We finally make it to (pretty) Good Star Wars with Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire (1991). This is the one that started it all! Topics include Grand Admiral Thrawn as an example of the "Clean Wehrmacht," why the New Republic here is definitely not a People's one, and how Chewbacca must feel about his boyfriend's racist wife.

Content warnings include racism, colonialism, misogyny, and general physical violence.

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DarthAngelus' adaptation of Heir To The Empire

We finally finish L. Neil Smith's interminable trilogy with Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka (1983). Topics include libertarianism's reliance on junk science, the inability to create new stories as a result of tendency of the rate of profit to fall, and hotboxing your starfighter.

Content warnings include racism, white supremacy, misogyny, colonialism, genocide, and general physical violence.

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We continue L. Neil Smith's trilogy with Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon (1983). Neil isn't playing around and includes every one of his political beliefs in this one. Topics include how many times Lando tells Vuffi Raa not to call him master, Neil's stance on drugs, and whether or not sabacc would actually be fun to play.

Content warnings include fatphobia (it's bad in this one), drug use, misogyny, and violence.

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The Internet Archive's page where you can play Sabacc for Windows (1995)

We eventually talk about 1983's Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu by L. Neil Smith (after talking about Smith's batshit libertarian politics and other writings for 45 minutes). Topics include hard science fiction and its relationship with Star Wars, the secrets revealed by Smith about Brian Daley, how much of this Smith had written before he got the contract to write a Star Wars novel, and Donald Glover.

Content warnings include racism, misogyny, discussions of spousal abuse/intimate partner violence, and general physical violence.

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We wrap up Brian Daley's 1980 conclusion to the Han Solo Adventures with what might have been the best of the trilogy, then finish up with a long discussion about Hutts and the books in the near future. Topics include libertarian monetary policy, whether or not Brian Daley is just George Lucas writing under a pen name, and a lengthy digression about Gareth Edwards, the ostensible director of Rogue One.

Content warnings include racism, misogyny, colonialism, and general physical violence.

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We continue with Han Solo's adventures in Han Solo's Revenge (1979) by Brian Daley. Was Daley able to keep up the momentum? Topics include Star Wars' obsession with slavery, changing the Corporate Sector Authority from the inside, and locating the seeds of bad Star Wars within old Star Wars.

Content warnings include racism, slavery, misogyny, fatphobia, general physical violence.

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