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Tales of the Bounty Hunters (Star Wars ) (Book 3) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Kevin J. Anderson, Stephen Youll
Publisher: Spectra
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 270873
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0553568167
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0876208
EAN: 9780553568165
ASIN: 0553568167
Publication Date: November 1, 1996
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Product Description
In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters-amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful-and feared-hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life... Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers and Dave Wolverton.
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Best Of The "Tales" Books May 11, 2008
While this is the best of the "Tales" books, it suffers from the same problems that plague other stories in the SW Universe...canon. What stories are "true", recognized tales of these characters and what is out-of-continuity schlock? Take them for what they are (stories) and have fun learning about characters that existed for mere seconds on film. It is a funny note, that for years when Empire was only available for view on TV (HBO etc) and shown in "full screen" mode that IG-88 isn't even in the film. He is cut out since he is standing at the end of the line. It is also amusing that his tale is one of the best.
 Last One Standing November 4, 2007
This is such a good book. Takes me back to my childhood when I first read it. My favorite story is "The Last One Standing". Also, Tales From Jabba's Palace and Tales from Mos Eisley are both equally superb.
Who needs their kind? October 4, 2007
Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Full Screen) In/famous scene on the bridge where Lord Darth Vader is interviewing the bounty hunters. Book is about the bounty hunters Darth Vader enlisted in The Empire Strikes back. There are stories about IG-88, Dengar, Bossk, Zuckuss and 4-LOM (who share a single story), and Boba Fett. Explains why Vader says "and NO disintegrations!"
Bounty Hunter News August 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tales of the Bounty Hunters is a collection of five stories by different authors concerning bounty hunters who captured our attention in Star Wars - IG-88, Dengar, Bossk. Zuckuss and 4-LOM, and, last but certainly not least, Boba Fett. The stories are well written and generally very entertaining. The common ground for the tales is that all of the bounty hunters have been given the opportunity by Lord Vader to find Han Solo and bring him in. Their approaches vary widely. Of course, we know already which of the hunters actually gets Solo and what happens after that, but that advance knowledge does not spoil the stories.
The first story is about IG-88 and his plan to claim the galaxy as his own domain. As a sideline to his more important goals, he also participates in the search for Han Solo under the orders of Darth Vader. I found the story to be completely absorbing. It shows a side to IG-88 that I had never expected. He is designed and built as an assassin droid and appears to be virtually unstoppable, especially when he develops three exact clones of himself. Basically, his plan is to deal no longer with the frailties of biological beings and simply to have droids take over the entire universe. He even snickers to himself at some of the efforts of Emperor Palpatine. (Question to readers: Can droids snicker?) Eventually he runs into serious problems when trying to deal with Boba Fett and even more serious problems when he inserts his intelligence into the second Death Star shortly before the Rebels take care of it. Never underestimate the power of the Rebel Alliance.
The second story stars Dengar and was the weakest tale in the book to me. Dengar is a cybernetically enhanced Imperial assassin who has been surgically stripped of all superfluous emotion. This makes him a highly effective bounty hunter, but also means that he experiences almost none of the normal emotions that humans take for granted. So the main plotline for the story is Dengar's reacquisition of emotions and his surprising realization that he can fall in love. A bounty hunter's love story was just not what I was expecting with these tales.
Bossk is the main character in Tale #3. He is a lizardlike Trandoshan hunter who has been slaughtering Wookies for their pelts. He agrees to a joint venture with two competitors in the search for Solo. His unlikely companions are Chenlambec, a silvertip Wookie, and Tinian L'att, a small human female. The partnership does not go smoothly as double crosses are frequent, plus Chenlambec's sole motive in joining forces was to stop Boskk's career and obtain a measure of revenge for the Wookie slaughtering that had happened in the past. Things do not go well for Bossk.
The fourth tale is that of Zuckuss and 4-LOM, a Gand intuitive and his logic-driven droid partner. Their hopes for being the ones to nab Solo are based primarily on the intuitive powers of Zuckuss who always seems to be able to discern whatever they need to know. 4-LOM is great fun to listen to as he has a quick statistical analysis for any question that arises.
The last tale in the book lets us travel through the years with Boba Fett. As we all know, he is the one who succeeds in grabbing Han Solo, albeit with a major assist from Darth Vader and the Imperial forces. As many of us did not know, he survived his fall into the Great Pit of Carkoon and the digestive system of the Sarlacc. This tale focuses on Fett in his later years as he is hampered by injuries suffered from years of bounty hunting and as he comes to grips with the realization that his best days are behind him. He does manage to collect a huge bounty offered for the capture of the Butcher of Montellian Serat. That is followed by a chance that he never expected to have again, i.e., another shot at killing Han Solo. This chance is primarily the result of Han's boredom at living on Coruscant and not being involved in smuggling and fighting bad guys any more. He takes off in the Millennium Falcon in search of adventure and finds it the form of a face-to-face encounter with Boba Fett at the end of the tale. Good stuff.
 Bad, bad, bad July 18, 2007
I bought this book as a break from continuity books, and that was my first mistake. This book is completely inconsistent with facts from the Star Wars Saga.
I'm not going to go into detail of all the errors in the books, but I will name off a few.
-How can Bespin have mountains when it is a gas giant? Woops
-Boba Fett was retreived by Jawas, not Dengar.
Dengar's story is just bad writing period. IG-88's story about hacking into the Death Star's super computer is completely inconsistent with the Star Wars saga. If I had to choose which was best, I'd choose Dave Wolverton's story about Dengar--Not because it made the most sense, but because it was good writing. I was dissapointed in the lack of writing some authors displayed in this book.
Overal opinion--BAD
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