#michael stackpole

[oldschoolfrp]

Flying Buffalo's Sorcerer's Apprentice featured more well-known authors than most gaming magazines. The special double issue #9/10, Winter/Spring 1981, included fiction by Roger Zelazny, non-fiction by C J Cherryh and L Sprague de Camp, a T&T dungeon by Larry DiTillio, and a feature by Michael Stackpole. This issue also would have premiered a new story by Manly Wade Wellman but the editor postponed it when Lee Brown Coye's illustrations were temporarily lost in the mail. (Richard Becker cover art)

[holonetwork]

George Lucas and the Bantam era Part of a series I’ve put together focusing on the history of the EU. Sources: Tom Dupree (1, 2), Drew Struzan (1, 2), Michael A. Stackpole, Kevin J. Anderson, Dave Wolverton (1, 2, 3), Pablo Hidalgo (The Essential Reader's Companion), Michael P. Kube-McDowell (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), A.C. Crispin (1, 2, 3), & Roger MacBride Allen

[tinierpurplefishes]

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, but those who remember it sometimes turn to it for inspiration.

- Victor Steiner-Davion

[balu8]

Star Wars: Mara Jade-By The Emperor's Hand #1

by Timothy Zahn/ Michael A, Stackpole (W);  Carlos Ezquerra (P/I); James Sinclair and Michael Taylor (L)

Dark Horse

[mythosaur00]

"This is the Ministry of Planning and Zoning. Construction Droid Foursixnine, do you have a problem? We are showing a deviation of your course. "

Wedge hit the reply button. " No problem here, we just have new plans. With Coruscant being under new management, we wanted to get things started early to ease the transition."

"What are you talking about? Who is this? "

"Rogue Squadron Contracting. X-wings far faster, but they don't build things as nicely as this does. Antilles out."

- A conversation between someone at the Ministry of Planning and Zoning and Wedge Antilles.

Wedge's Gamble, Book 2 of the X-wing series. Page 306

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

i have never closed a book so fast lmao

[fakewedge]

actually let's loop back around. what did he mean by this <- knows what stackpole likely intended (it was the 90s) <- still. there are other phrases that convey especially close or important friendships that also don't connote all that. many of them, in fact

[the-gershomite]

Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron, The Phantom Affair #4 of 4

-May 1996- Dark Horse Comics

story: Michael A. Stackpole

script: Darko Macan

art: Gary Erskine

colors: Dave Nestlle

letterer: Annie Parkhouse

cover art: Mathieu Lauffray

[oldschoolfrp]

Intrepid hero: "My cat-like senses guide my first step into the impenetrable gloom, across the threshold of the Sewers of Oblivion!"

Goblin: "This joker walked right past me without noticing."

(Liz Danforth cover for Tunnels & Trolls Solo adventure #13 by Michael Stackpole, Flying Buffalo, 1980)

[bornitereads]

Isard's Revenge - Michael A. Stackpole

Star Wars: X-Wing Book 8

Read: Jul 2024

Another entry for the X-Wing novels, Rogue Squadron is back in action. Set in the aftermath of Thrawn's campaign against the New Republic, we find everyone's favourite director of Imperial Intelligence is still alive. And once again the Rogues are caught in her web.

This was a lesser entry in the series for me. I didn't enjoy it as much as the others. I think it was just the plot, because I did enjoy getting back together with some of my favourite characters. There were some presumed character deaths that should have been actual deaths in my opinion. Sometimes Star Wars writers are too afraid to kill off characters, especially if they're "good guys." I especially liked the end with Mirax and Iella though, that was so juicy haha. I think in the end nothing happened, like net zero gain for the timeline, just a small adventure that doesn't matter to the bigger picture.

Info: Bantam Spectra; 1999

[holonetwork]

[checkoutmybookshelf]

You Have My Attention: X-Wing Series First Lines

In the many, many series that comprise the Star Wars EU (the Legends Canon since Disney decanonized it in 2014), the X-Wing series is an interesting case because it is fairly cleanly bifurcated between two X-wing squadrons and two authors, and yet the series as a whole--and the characters who cross over between authors--feel remarkably consistent. That's a feat in and of itself, as anyone who has read over the shift from Robert Jordan to Brandon Sanderson in the Wheel of Time can attest.

My clear preference is for Aaron Allston's writing style and the Wrait Squadron missions, but I know readers who dearly love Stackploe's Rogue Squadron as well. So let's take a look at how these authors grab readers with their first lines!

"You're good, Corran, but you're no Luke Skywalker."

-- Rogue Squadron

"Even before his X-wing's sensors had time to scan and identify the new ship, Corran Horn knew he was in trouble."

-- Wedge's Gamble

"Commander Wedge Antilles would have preferred the ceremony to be private."

-- The Krytos Trap

"Somehow the dead of night amplified the lightsaber's hiss, allowing it to fill the room."

-- The Bacta War

"Twelve X-wing snubfighters roared down into the atmosphere."

-- Wraith Squadron

"He made no pretense at being fully human."

-- Iron Fist

"Naval Lieutenant Jart Eyan looked rested and cheerful."

-- Solo Command

"Sithspawn! When his X-wing reverted to realspace before the countdown timer had reached zero, Corran Horn knew Thrawn had somehow managed to outguess the New Republic yet one more time."

-- Isard's Revenge

"She was beautiful and fragile and he could not count the number of times he had told her he loved her."

-- Starfighters of Adumar

"Imperial Admiral Kosh Teradoc paused, irritated and self-conscious, just outside the entryway into the club."

-- Mercy Kill

[mapas-fantasticos]

Map of the world from the DragonCrown War Cycle by Michael A. Stackpole.

[missmultifandommess]

Oh, hoho yeah!

Oh, ho ho YEAH!

MWAHAHA!

*SCREAMS*

Context

[eyepatchdate]

woke up today to learn one of my favorite authors wrote a batman rpg sourcebook and i didnt know. wtf

[derdave]

So I’ve been re watching the battletech cartoon. Yeah it’s kind of rough but kind of enjoyable. However I decided to give the novels a chance. Download the first vil of the blood of Kerensky (aka the clan invasion story) and wow it’s been really really good so far.