From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

De: Renée Ahdieh, Meg Cabot, Pierce Brown, Nnedi Okorafor, Sabaa Tahir

Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, Marc Thompson

Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view.

On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the 40th anniversary, more than 40 contributors lend their vision to this retelling of Star Wars. Each of the 40 short stories reimagines a moment from the original film, but through the eyes of a supporting character. From a Certain Point of View features contributions by best-selling authors, trendsetting artists, and treasured voices from the literary history of Star Wars:

• Gary Whitta bridges the gap from Rogue One to A New Hope through the eyes of Captain Antilles.
• Aunt Beru finds her voice in an intimate character study by Meg Cabot.
• Nnedi Okorofor brings dignity and depth to a most unlikely character: the monster in the trash compactor.
• Pablo Hidalgo provides a chilling glimpse inside the mind of Grand Moff Tarkin.
• Pierce Brown chronicles Biggs Darklighter's final flight during the Rebellion's harrowing attack on the Death Star.
• Wil Wheaton spins a poignant tale of the rebels left behind on Yavin.

Plus 34 more hilarious, heartbreaking, and astonishing tales from Ben Acker, Renée Ahdieh, Tom Angleberger, Ben Blacker, Jeffrey Brown, Rae Carson, Adam Christopher, Zoraida Córdova, Delilah S. Dawson, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Paul Dini, Ian Doescher, Ashley Eckstein, Matt Fraction, Alexander Freed, Jason Fry, Kieron Gillen, Christie Golden, Claudia Gray, E. K. Johnston, Paul S. Kemp, Mur Lafferty, Ken Liu, Griffin McElroy, John Jackson Miller, Daniel José Older, Mallory Ortberg, Beth Revis, Madeleine Roux, Greg Rucka, Gary D. Schmidt, Cavan Scott, Charles Soule, Sabaa Tahir, Elizabeth Wein, Glen Weldon, Chuck Wendig

Narrated by a full cast, including:

• Jonathan Davis
• Ashley Eckstein
• Janina Gavankar
• Jon Hamm
• Neil Patrick Harris
• January LaVoy
• Saskia Maarleveld
• Carol Monda
• Daniel José Older
• Marc Thompson

All participating authors have generously forgone any compensation for their stories. Instead, their proceeds will be donated to First Book - a leading nonprofit that provides new books, learning materials, and other essentials to educators and organizations serving children in need. To further celebrate the launch of this book and both companies' longstanding relationships with First Book, Penguin Random House has donated $100,000 to First Book, and Disney/Lucasfilm has donated 100,000 children's books - valued at $1 million - to support First Book and their mission of providing equal access to quality education. Over the past 16 years, Disney and Penguin Random House combined have donated more than 88 million books to First Book.

©2017 Renée Ahdieh (P)2017 Random House Audio

A New View of A New Hope

What a fantastic collection of stories. Take a bunch of side characters who were bit parts in the original Star Wars movie and give them a story to tell. You remember those guys in the band playing the Cantina? Yeah, let's tell their story. Remember that little M1C6 droid who Chewbacca scared on the Death Star? Yeah, he has a story. How about the stormtrooper who Obi Wan used his Jedi mind powers to fool into believing that C3PO and R2D2 weren't the droids they were looking for? Fantastic continuation!
There are stories in here from a ton of angles, including Lando, Yoda, Obi Wan, and Mon Mothra, as well as that red R5 unit who blew up at Uncle Owen's farm and the monster in the trash room. These stories fill out a universe so well fleshed out already. Even things like the stormtrooper bopping his head on the door make sense now.
And the voices. Oh, the voices are so great. This book is just about the perfect book. What a great anthology of the Star Wars Universe's lesser known characters. I not only highly recommend this one but I, myself, will be listening to it several more times in the future.I have a new hope that they will do a project like this for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in short order.

True must for fans!

Remember some of the fringe characters you saw in Episode IV? This audio & book brings them to life! You find about so many from just before the movie started up to after the movie ended with so many fill ins for a lot of characters. If you are a fan, you'll love this!

Superb Narration of Wonderful Stories

This book is a collection of 40 stories from various authors who tell the story of Episode 4 A New Hope through the eyes of peripheral characters. The author list includes veteran favorites like John Jackson Miller, Paul S Kemp, Christie Golden, Claudia Gray, Wil Wheaton and more. The stories themselves range from heartbreaking to hilarious. All proceeds from this book are being donated to charity. While the stories are wonderful, the true magic of this book comes from the incredible narration the voice talent provided. Every story truly came alive, crafted with loving care in their narrative. If you are thinking of reading this book, the audio book is a must for this selection. It really makes this book come alive. Narrators include the magnificent Jonathan Davis and Marc Thompson, January LaVoy, Ashley Eckstein, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris and more. If you have to choose one medium, the audio book triumphs. A great collection of wonderful stories and even better narration.

Every Star Wars fan MUST purchase this audiobook!

If you could sum up From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) in three words, what would they be?

Fantastic, exciting, AWESOME!!!

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I sat with my mouth open throughout this audiobook. I was too mesmerized to do anything else! The creative back stories of the selected Star Wars supportive characters added a 'flavor' that is true to the original Episode IV. Each of the stories had to have been written by an authentic Star Wars fan as all are truly mind-blowing! And then there is the fact that each story was narrated by a different reader and each seem to be a 'balls-to-bones' Star Wars fans given how well they told their 'assigned' story, how could Audible possibly get any better?

Any additional comments?

This is an audiobook joy and thrill for any Star Wars fan. I'm sure to earn the 'Repeat Listener' badge for this one.

Great Book, audio quality, and story

I really enjoyed this book, the audio quality and the readers voice.
Thank you for this app

40 years point of view

I did not love this book. There were stories that were to long that just got boring. Others were good but not great. I don't think this book needed 40 stories to tell the in between the lines of what happened from Episode IV. As usually the voice acting was good but couldn't they have used more than one actor in each story.

Really entertaining.

I'm a Star Wars fan since I saw episode IV in 1977. A lot of back stories, I loved most of them, but a few I struggled to get through. Worth a point that's for sure.

Something for everyone.

I have mixed feelings about this book. Overall it was pretty good. It had some of my favorite narrators narrating the different stories, which was refreshing. I enjoyed about a third of the book, the rest was hard to get through. I actually stopped listening to it, about half way through the book, for a couple of weeks because it was really getting hard to listen to. The stories didn’t interest me, or were too repetitive in a certain time period. I eventually came back to it and as I continued it got better. I like the idea of the book and get what they were doing, and I respect that. There is something for everyone in it and I appreciate that as well.

Absolutely fabulous addition to the Star Wars universe!

This is one of the best Star Wars books I have had the pleasure of listening to in a long time. There are so many good laugh out loud moments in a lot of the stories and I think the best ones are the ones from tattooine. Can’t recommend this book enough! A must read/listen!

Some good, some bad.

What made the experience of listening to From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) the most enjoyable?

Seeing the many and varied side stories that might have happened in the cracks of A New Hope was a blast. Stories in the Sand, Master and Apprentice, and An Incident Report are fantastic. Time of Death should win an award.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I would have made the Boba Fett story longer, and I might have omitted some of the stories. Some were ambling and petered out rather than ended. Others were just completely meaningless. There was one story that I simply could not listen to because the narrator did the entire story in a very strange character's voice.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

They picked three very good narrators. Thompson, a regular Star Wars audio performer, particularly shines. He's very expressive, and gets engaged in the story like a good reader should. Though he gets few opportunities to showcase his talent in this book, his imitations of the classic Star Wars cast are second to none.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

This, like a lot of short story collections, is better to listen to one at a time.

Any additional comments?

I would recommend this to Star Wars fans who enjoy quirky and dubiously canon side-stories.