In terms of plot, they’re on this cave-laden planet to find out what the Hand of Thrawn is, but what makes the story memorable is the Luke-Mara romance. Whereas previous Zahn novels found our heroes quickly bouncing from planet to planet, sometimes stopping so briefly that you barely had time to register the name of the planet, Luke and Mara spend this entire book on Nirauan in the Unknown Regions. It’s also meaty in terms of the page-count spent on each thread. (In fact, in Germany it was split into two books.) Yet, perhaps most dangerous of all, are those who lurk in the shadows, orchestrating a dark plan that will turn the New Republic and the Empire into their playthings.Timothy Zahn wraps up his “Hand of Thrawn” duology with the meaty “Vision of the Future”(1998), which - at 520 pages for the hardcover and 694 pages for the paperback - is the longest Bantam “Star Wars” novel. Meanwhile, Luke teams up with Mara Jade, using the Force to track down a mysterious pirate ship with a crew of clones. Facing incredible odds, Han and Leia begin a desperate race against time to prevent the New Republic from unraveling in the face of two inexplicable threats-one from within and one from without. Then comes the shocking news that Grand Admiral Thrawn-the most cunning and ruthless warlord in history-has apparently returned from the dead to lead the Empire to a long-prophesied victory. First a plot is hatched that could destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of genocide and civil war. But they have saved their most heinous plan for last. The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet-a dead Imperial warlord.
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