The Homecoming (Star Wars story)
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Homecoming |
| Author(s): | Fern Marder and Carol Walske |
| Date(s): | 1984 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Wars |
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The Homecoming is a Star Wars story by Fern Marder and Carol Walske.
It was published in Time Warp #6/7 Volume 2.
Reactions and Reviews
"The Homecoming" (one of the longest stories) is a re-telling of ROTJ by Fern Marder and Carol Walske, positing a Dark order of Force users called the Cadar of which Han and his family are ancient members. It is up to Han, the Cadar. and Luke and Leia. the Jedi, to destroy the Emperor together with a little help from the unreformed Vader... Such an interpretation manages to posit a Han as Force wielder while still maintaining his innate independence and individuality, something I missed in ROTJ. But the story ultimately fails to touch the senses or move the reader. There are too many "floods of emotion" ("joy and wonder, shame and and the reader are so overloaded that all those emotions in one sentence (repeatedly) never become more than words on a page. Triteness, and stiff, flowery language also mar the piece. Simple, effective wording is foregone in favor of words like "surcease" and "ululation". I also object to Chewie being referred to as "the beast" in the narration.[1]
References
- ^ from Southern Enclave #10