To celebrate the 40th anniversary of ‘Star Wars‘ we’ve just learned that Del Rey is going to be releasing a new anthology titled ‘Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View’ which will be bringing us a unique perspective of ‘Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.’ This collection will feature “40 stories celebrating 40 years of” the franchise by taking background characters from ‘A New Hope’ and seeing the events unfold through their eyes. It will be a hodgepodge collection with a focus ranging on everything “from X-wing pilots who helped Luke destroy the Death Star to the stormtroopers who never quite could find the droids they were looking for.”
In a galaxy far, far away in the Legends books, this was done around the original trilogy in collections such as ‘Tales of the Bounty Hunters’ and ‘Tales from the New Republic.’ While those concepts were fun, since they are no longer canon it was time to get some fresh tales hat fit the same theme!
The announcement was revealed on Twitter today with the #OperationBlueMilk hashtag with a slew of fun tidbits popping up about the book.
Looking for the full lineup? It will contain stories from:
- Ben Acker & Ben Blacker
- Renee Ahdieh
- Tom Angleberger
- Meg Cabot
- Rae Carson
- Adam Christopher
- Zoraida Cordova
- Delilah S. Dawson
- Paul Dini
- Alexander Freed
- Jason Fry
- Christie Golden
- EK Johnston & Ashley Eckstein
- Paul Kemp
- Mur Lafferty
- Ken Liu
- Griffin McElroy
- John Jackson Miller
- Nnedi Okorafor
- Daniel José Older
- Mallory Ortberg
- Madeleine Roux
- Gary D. Schmidt
- Cavan Scott
- Sabaa Tahir
- Glen Weldon
- Chuck Wendig
- Gary Whitta
- And more!
Not only that, but the 40 authors involved have passed on any form of compensation so that their proceeds can be donated to First Book. The company is “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 million dollars.”
Source: Star Wars
Stuart Conover is an author, blogger, and all around geek. When not busy being a father and husband he tries to spend as much time as possible immersed in comic books, science fiction, and horror! Would you like to know more? Follow him on Twitter!
