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Children of the Jedi
AuthorBarbara Hambly
LanguageEnglish
SeriesCallista Trilogy
Canon C
SubjectStar Wars
GenreScience Fiction
PublisherBantam Spectra
Publication date
Hardcover:
May 1, 1995
Paperback:
July 1, 1996
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardcover & Paperback
PagesHardcover: 345
Paperback: 409
ISBN0-553-08930-7
Preceded byChampions of the Force 
Followed byDarksaber 

Children of the Jedi is a 1995 bestselling fictional Star Wars novel written by Barbara Hambly. The novel is set several months after the Jedi Academy Trilogy in the Star Wars expanded universe timeline. Moreover, it serves as book one in a three book cycle involving Callista, an ex-Jedi Knight. The next book in the cycle is Darksaber by Kevin J. Anderson. Hambly also wrote the final novel in the cycle, Planet of Twilight.

Plot

Characters

Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Callista

Summary

Han Solo and Princess Leia learn of the now-abandoned Jedi stronghold on the planet of Belsavis from Drub McKumb and travel there, only to discover a chilling conspiracy involving a Force-adept, members of the Ancient Houses and the Emperor's Hand who is able to change the programming of droids and mechanicals. Meanwhile Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, two Jedi students (Nichos and Cray), and a myriad selection of alien life-forms along with a former stormtrooper are abducted aboard the sinister Eye of Palpatine, impossibly reactivated after thirty years. Fighting the effects of massive indoctrination, injury, and the cold manipulation by the ship's artificial intelligence and its horrific security measures, Luke discovers the Eye is bound for the destruction of Belsavis. Racing against time and exhaustion he struggles to rescue his companions; who are being held hostage as the Will has decided they are Rebel Saboteurs, find a way to transport all the ship's prisoners back to their home-worlds, and find a way to destroy the super-weapon. He makes an unexpected ally in the form of Callista, the brave Jedi who sacrificed her life to stop the ship thirty years before, and now exists as a fading spirit in the gunnery computers. Tenderness grows between them, but time is running out, and the destruction of the Eye will mean the final loss of Callista forever.

Beyond all hope, Callista is revived as a human when Cray chooses to die and be reunited with her dead lover Nichos and offers her body to the former Jedi. But everything has to be paid for, Callista loses her Jedi powers. Their love and trials continue in Darksaber and The Planet of Twilight.

Reception

As with all of Bantam Spectra's Star Wars releases from the mid-1990s, Children of the Jedi is a bestseller.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Blindreaders: Star Wars. URL accessed on January 4, 2006.

See also

References

  • Children of the Jedi, 1st edition paperback, 1995. Barbara Hambly. ISBN 0-553-57293-8
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