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Ambush at Corellia (Star Wars: The Corellian Trilogy, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Roger Macbride Allen
Publisher: Spectra
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Pages: 308
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0553298038
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780553298031
ASIN: 0553298038
Publication Date: February 2, 1995
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Returning to his home planet for a trade summit, Han Solo finds the five worlds of the sector on the brink of civil war as the agents of the New Republic Intelligence plot a mysterious and deceptive plan.
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 Should have been 1 book not 3 November 15, 2008
The whole trilogy could have been easily fit into one book. Imagine taking any one of the other fairly good stand alone books in the Star Wars series and stretching it into 3 books by putting in all sorts of useless information, and completely irrelevant scenarios and you basically have this series. Examples: it takes Han 50 pages to land a disabled ship in book 2 that added nothing to the story, it takes Luke 50 pages to get out of an elevator in book 3. You get to get to read page after page of very uninteresting alien social habits. I'm also annoyed when the author apparently didn't bother to read any of the previous books in the series. Luke seems like a frightened apprentice in this series rather than a Jedi Master, and Leia is an indecisive cry baby.
Very fun series May 15, 2008
I read this book after I read the word "Corellian" in the title, out of years and years of curiosity about Han's home planet, but not expecting much out of the series. With regards to Corellia, what I got was what I expected, a sort of run-down city that had long lost its charm, replaced by a certain eerie loneliness. Fortunately, I was entertained enough to read the next book, which set up perfectly for a very climactic 3rd book. As another reviewer wrote, Anakin Solo was poorly written: pretty much a curious baby who could walk and talk (barely). This gave me almost no insight into his character, which I was also very curious to read about. I would tell more, but it's been about 4 years since I read the series and I don't remember many the details or the storyline. All I remember is that it's a good, fast-paced read, and that you should definitely stick around for books 2 and 3. You won't regret it
 not bad May 22, 2007
The Corellian Trilogy was OK for post-Return of the Jedi books - a good amount better than the Jedi Academy Trilogy, but not as good as The Thrawn Trilogy.
But instead of those series, I highly recommend the following 5-star novels that are extremely relevant to the film series:
Cloak of Deception (Star Wars)
Shadow Hunter (Star Wars: Darth Maul)
Labyrinth of Evil (Star Wars, Episode III Prequel Novel)
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Shadows of the Empire (Star Wars)
a very solid opening July 11, 2006
Ambush at Corellia is the first volume of the Corellian Trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen. Han Solo is headed back to his home planet of Corellia for the first time in decades to attend a trade summit with his wife, the Chief of State of the New Republic, Leia Organa-Solo. It will be something of a rare family vacation as they are taking their children, Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin. Corellia is nominally part of the New Republic, but it is a planet (and system) at risk of falling apart and falling away. Years of forced rule have made many there fairly insular. Before they leave for Corellia, Han is warned by a member of New Republic Intelligence (NRI) that Corellia is not safe and that there is a mission in place. Han could support the mission by acting in such a way to make people suspicious of him. This is Han's normal behavior, so there isn't much of a stretch. The agent who warned Han is nearly killed upon arrival in the Corellian spacelanes. The Millenium Falcon is ambushed by a staged attack perhaps meant to frighten Leia.
Once they set foot on Corellia Han and Leia see that the situation is much worse than they had anticipated. The entire star system is on the verge of imploding (meant as a societal term, not a a physical stellar term). The risk to the New Republic is great because there are not strong ties keeping the fledgling government together. It has only been 14 years since Return of the Jedi. As the novel progresses we see just how big the threat is to the New Republic and to the Corellian system.
Happily, the nature of this threat is quite a bit different from other Star Wars novels. We are not faced with the "superweapon", not exactly, and it is more of a political threat than a galactic threat. There is still action and there is still intrigue, but Ambush at Corellia has a different feel to it than many other Star Wars novels. It doesn't "feel" like the same old same old, and I've read at least sixty of them by now. Roger MacBride Allen has done a good job setting up the trilogy. The scope of the story is enlarged and we get a glimpse of what is to come, but we don't know exactly how this is going to play out. Sure, our heroes are very likely to live, but we don't know what is going to happen to them or what is going to happen to Corellia. I had one of those "bad feelings" that this was going to be a crappy trilogy like the Black Fleet Crisis, but I'm very happy to be wrong. This was a solid opening novel. I hope the following two novels expand on the story and improve on a solid beginning.
-Joe Sherry
 Star Wars - Ambush at Corellia November 16, 2005
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is another one of my favorites. When books come in a 3 set, it makes the reading funner. This book started off slow but it started to get more and more exciting. This book isn't very emotional when I read it, though some parts made me laugh. Happily no one died. The plot is pretty confusing but near the end you understand it all. It did end up hanging because there is another book. 5 out of 5.
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