: I think that rebooting the EU is merely the sane reaction to twenty years of
: meandering, directionless storytelling, and not the only way to tell a
: good story.

: The Star Wars Expanded Universe is a mess, having been written by a hundred
: authors with a hundred and fifty visions for the Star Wars universe. There
: are two decade's worth of multi-author story arcs that meandered on long
: after they'd run out of energy. And could you imagine trying to create
: movies that play well with the current fiction? Lucas had it easy with the
: prequels, because he only had vague hints to deal with.

: And even through this lets Disney start out with a clean slate to tell
: excellent stories, they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater. This
: means that the Heir to the Empire trilogy and the Hand of Thrawn Duology
: are no longer canon, and won't be reprinted anymore. Words cannot express
: how awesome those books were. Timothy Zahn was God's gift to the Star Wars
: EU.

: But maybe that's just my insomnia talking.

I used to have every Star Wars book published up until about five years ago. I donated all of them to the local Goodwill last year, most of them were the Hardcover versions. I kept all the Zahn and Kevin J. Anderson books. And yes, Zahn was God's gift to the Star Wars EU.