In the new Star Wars novel Last Shot, now in stores, author Daniel José Older sets out to unravel their histories with a time-hopping tale of long-ago crimes and misdemeanors from their younger years that return to make trouble for them in middle age.

The Empire has fallen after the events of Return of the Jedi and Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath trilogy. Han is a new father, struggling to connect with his toddler son while Leia gets to work rebuilding the galaxy. Lando is thinking about settling down with a Twi’lek lover named Kaasha Bateen and joining his old buddy in domestic bliss.

But then a fringe figure named Fyzen Gor comes calling, in pursuit of a mechanical device he thinks the captain of the Millennium Falcon took from him decades ago.

Last Shot also explores topics that touch a nerve in our own galaxy — sometimes using humor, sometimes heart, and sometimes just by making it matter-of-fact.

There’s a new Gungan character who objects to the Jar-Jar Binks-style stereotype. An Ewok hacker who defies the notion that the furry little creatures are primitives. Lando’s Twi’lek lover gives him a lesson in respect and consent. And there’s a human pilot whose gender fluidity is accepted without mention, which underplays the significance of such a character in a Star Wars novel.

http://ew.com/books/2018/04/18/star-wars-han-and-lando-novel-last-shot-gets-personal-and-political/

I like how they are destroying stereotypes by not making the Gungan (nigger) the hacker.

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