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Outbound Flight

By Timothy Zahn

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780345456847

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It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery–only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable–and doomed–Outbound Flight Project.Continue

It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery–only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable–and doomed–Outbound Flight Project.

The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children will embark–aboard a gargantuan vessel, equipped for years of travel–on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. The government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even start–until Master C’baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.

Or so it would seem. For unknown to the famed Jedi Master, the successful launch of the mission is secretly being orchestrated by an unlikely ally: the evil Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, who has his own reasons for wanting Outbound Flight to move forward . . . and, ultimately, to fail.

Yet Darth Sidious is not the mission’s most dangerous challenge. Once underway, the starship crosses paths at the edge of Unknown Space with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind best known as “Thrawn.” Even Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, aboard Outbound Flight with his young Padawan student, Anakin Skywalker, cannot help avert disaster. Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival against staggering odds–and the most diabolical of adversaries.

Timothy Zahn’s unique mix of espionage, political gamesmanship, and deadly interstellar combat breathes electrifying life into a Star Wars legend.


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  • Star Wars: Outbound Flight

    Next year marks the 30th Anniversary of the original Star Wars Trilogy. But this year marks the 15th Anniversary of an equally important event, the publication of Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire, the novel that some have credited with restarting th ... (read full critics)

    sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

  • Book Review: Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn Share

    With his Heir to Empire trilogy in the early 1990s, sci-fi author Timothy Zahn set the stage for a remarkable proliferation of books set in George Lucas' Star Wars universe. The quality of many of those subsequent titles is fairly described as uneven ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Thu, 23 Feb 2006

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  • Zahn's book is yet another page turner, quite enjoyable and well blended in the SW universe. Going back to the origins of already-developed characters he draws a credible (even within SF) story. And Anakin... is as unsufferable a prick as in the movies.

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 480 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 034545684X
  • ISBN-13: 9780345456847
  • Publisher: Del Rey
  • Pub date: Jan 30, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and Others
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