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Free Excerpt: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - Behind the Scenes
- Narrated by: Timothy Zahn, Betsy Mitchell
- Length: 21 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire: Behind the Scenes is a special recording that features new commentary by author Timothy Zahn and editor Betsy Mitchell, written for the 20th anniversary edition of Heir to the Empire, read by Zahn and Mitchell. Included here is audio from the that new unabridged recording to enhance their comments.
The biggest event in the history of Star Wars books, Heir to the Empire follows the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia after they led the Rebel Alliance to victory in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-14-12
When a Sample Works
I found Timothy Zahn's Behind-the-Scenes section to be interesting. The voice acting of the audiobook excerpt sounded good as well, but the constant interruptions by the otherwise interesting annotations made me grateful for this excerpt - because it's not a book I would want to purchase in audio. The print version is going in to my Wishlist. The audio is not.
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- Greg
- 04-02-12
Fantastic but too short
What about Timothy Zahn and Betsy Mitchell ’s performance did you like?
It's great to hear the forward and the behind the scenes notes by Tim Zahn himself!
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- Jeremy
- 04-10-12
Very interesting, but far too short!
Would you consider the audio edition of Free Excerpt: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - Behind the Scenes to be better than the print version?
There is no print version (that I know of). I found it fascinating and could have easily listened to it for hours more. It's only 20 minutes long, at least an hour of content would have been great.
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- Ed
- 09-27-18
A great excerpt. For a free book, this is a nice l
A great excerpt. For a free book, this is a nice listen. Worth listening to.
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- Q
- 11-15-20
I wish I could remove it from my library!
I wish I could remove it from my library! This book was not all it's cracked up to be!
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- frank r richter
- 09-23-20
Interesting and very cool
It was very interesting I learned a lot from this. And it is very well done and cool. And I loved it very much 😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
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- Mike
- 09-01-20
not what I thought it would be.
really wasn't good. hard to follow along. didn't have any real storyline to it at all.
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- FairyQueenDani / DaniMom22
- 05-07-20
Very interesting
I enjoyed this very much. The narrator has a very good voice and the storyline is very good.
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- George Meyers
- 04-29-20
Informative audiobook
I find this book very informative, helpful, and exciting for all the people. It's good for me really
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- J. Horn
- 04-13-20
Very Interesting
Interesting look into book creation Nice narrator I thought he did a good job