Like A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back’s 40th anniversaries before it, Return of the Jedi is celebrating its landmark year in style with its own From a Certain Point of View collection—and the authors include some familiar Star Wars faces, some new ones, and perhaps of most interest to us, a co-founder of io9!
StarWars.com has lifted the lid on the cover and author details for Return of the Jedi: From a Certain Point of View. Like the A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back editions, the anthology will feature 40 tales in chronological order taking place in and around the events of Return of the Jedi, filling in fun asides, backstory to major moments, or the lives of blink-and-you’ll-miss-them characters… and some not so missable ones either.
The author list includes notable Star Wars writers like behind-the-scenes archival books author Phil Szostak, Star Wars Ronin’s Emma Mieko Candon, Brotherhood’s Mike Chen, Dr. Aphra’s Alyssa Wong, and more, alongside writers entirely new to the galaxy far, far away. And yes, as we mentioned, io9’s very own Charlie Jane Anders—the scribe behind the new New Mutants: Lethal Legion series at Marvel Comics, and her YA Unstoppable trilogy—will be writing a story focusing on “the life and times of the Sarlacc.” Hell yes.
Check out the full list of authors below!
Saladin Ahmed
Charlie Jane Anders
Tom Angleberger
Kristin Baver
Olivie Blake
Akemi Dawn Bowman
Emma Mieko Candon
Olivia Chadha
Gloria Chao
Mike Chen
Adam Christopher
Paul Crilley
Amal El-Mohtar
M. K. England
Jason Fry
Adam Lance Garcia
Lamar Giles
Max Gladstone
Thea Guanzon
Ali Hazelwood
Patricia A. Jackson
Alex Jennings
Mary Kenney
Jarrett Krosoczka
Sarah Kuhn
Danny Lore
Sarah Glenn Marsh
Kwame Mbalia
Marieke Nijkamp
Danielle Paige
Laura Pohl
K. Arsenault Rivera
Dana Schwartz
Tara Sim
Phil Szostak
Suzanne Walker
Hannah Whitten
Fran Wilde
Sean Williams
Alyssa Wong
Return of the Jedi: From a Certain Point of View will release September 5.
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