Following in a grand tradition for Star Wars books, Del Rey, Lucasfilm, and Disney have announced a new 40-story anthology which will explore the stories of background characters from A New Hope.
Back in the old Expanded Universe books, this kind of ground was covered a lot by the “Tales From” series. Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales From Jabba’s Palace, and all the rest all did a similar thing, within a certain theme.
The new anthology is called Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, and it will feature 40 different authors and stories. Not everyone involved had been named yet, but here’s who is named in the announcement:
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
Sale of the anthology will also benefit First Book, a charity that provides materials to teachers serving communities in need. The book will be out in October, but in the meantime, we can re-watch A New Hope and make guesses about what character/location/situation each author is going to tackle.
