Turnabout (Star Wars zine)

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Zine
Title:	Turnabout
Publisher:	Alvyren Press
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Author(s):	Mary Jean Holmes
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Date(s):	1986
Medium:	print
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Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Wars
Language:	English
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Turnabout was a two-volume gen Star Wars novel by Mary Jean Holmes. The first volume has 180 pages. The second volume has 164 pages. The art is by Wanda Lybarger, Martynn, Mary Wood, and Mary Jean Holmes. The zine was bound in two parts "to keep binding costs to a minimum."

The author thanks several people for their help, including "George Lucas, for creating the world I have so come to love, and for tacitly allowing me to play in it."

The Solo Family

This story includes Han and Leia and their three children: 13-year old daughter named Alyaan and 8-year old son Ben and 8-year old daughter Anya (the last two are twins).

About

From Star Wars Zine Bibliography:

[Takes place] sixteen years after ROTJ and is about Han, Leia and their three children. The killers (Wyn and Kiri) are after them, and are altered to take their places. The children go to Kashyyyk with Lando and Chewie. The youngest is lost. Han and Leia are captured by a turned Jedi. Han finds out his Force talent is Dark Side.

Volume 1

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  cover by Mary Jean Holmes: "All Dressed Up and No Place to Go"

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  Wanda Lybarger

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  Wanda Lybarger

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  Wanda Lybarger

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  Marytnn

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  Mary Jean Holmes

Volume 2

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  cover by Mary Jean Holmes: "It's Not What You Think"

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  Mary Jean Holmes

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  Mary Jean Holmes

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  Mary Jean Holmes

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  Mary Wood

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  Mary Jean Holmes

Reactions and Reviews

My two favorite stories so far this year are the novels, REVENGE OF THE SITH by Ellen Randolph and TURNABOUT by Mary Jean Holmes.... TURNABOUT has lots of action and lots of villains, and all of the major characters, including Chewie, Lando and even Wedge, play important roles. I think Mary Jean Holmes does very good characterizations of Han and Leia.

Mary Jean Holmes outdid herself with this two-volume Star Wars novel. The plot has mistaken identities, assassinations, twenty-year-old bounties, kidnappings, exotic creatures, birthdays, unexpected inheritances, etc. "Dynasty" should be so blessed!

Set twenty years after the events of "A NEW HOPE," Han is celebrating his fiftieth birthday with Leia, his children and his brother-in-law. What starts out to be a pleasant day tinkering with the Falcon quickly deteriorates when Leia has three near-accidents in one day. When they discover that Leia will inherit all of Bail Organa's off-world income in two months, and that her political enemies will benefit if she fails to show up to claim the estate, Han decides to take action. With Luke's help, he concocts a plot to throw the assassins off the real Leia's trail, while their replacements lead the enemies on a merry chase. But as usual, Han's plotting runs into real problems from slavers, kidnappers, ambitious Forcerors and bounty hunters, and everyone's lives are endangered.

What can I say? Out of all the zines that case in the mail at that time, Turnabout is the only one that I have read from cover to cover. It definitely held my interest.

Thank you for bringing back Wyn and Kiri Silverthorn along with other characters from past stories. Through your SW mythos, I have become very attached to Wedge. His sense of humor and intuitiveness toward the other characters has made him an endearing part of your universe. He adds balance to the others while still regaining an individual with his own dimensions.

I thoroughly enjoyed the way you depict the Wookiees' society on Kashyyyk. I was enthralled to see that even their species are not perfect, and are fraught with the same "human-like" (excuse the expression) frailties as the rest of us. Their feeling of community and family is one I'm sure we all wish we could be a part of.

Perhaps my favorite parts of the story occurred at the end. The scene where Han gives back his Jedi pin to Luke was dealt with honestly. Though I believe Han is a strong Force-sensitive and has cone to terns with its existence, I still can't see him as a full fledged Jedi Knight. As someone once said, "He has to follow his own path." I'm very glad to see that he follows that path with his heart.

Finally to the ending: how typically Han and Leia! A true "turnabout.” I loved it. I know what you've said before, but being insatiably curious, I hope there's more to come.

I enjoyed it thoroughly. This had everything you could ever want: action, adventure, excitement, a family reunion, and a revelation to knock your socks off! It's also about learning. Leia learned how the actions of the government affect the people, and Han learned that his father wasn't the monster he'd pictured. Of great significance was the fact Luke learned that the Dark could be used as a compliment to the Light without causing disaster. I was hoping that Del and Han would meet. Even if their meeting wasn't quite what Del had hoped, at least they've come to terms with one another, and that's a start.

Loved Han as a Shadowsider. Although Uncle George never said so, I always thought there had to be a place where the two sides of the Force met and mingled. You also had some great villains, nasty people that I wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley, even if I had my faithful Wookiee companion with me. This can't be the end of your saga. There must be some more floating around somewhere.

Besides, I'd like to know how you had Han's friends rescue his from Jabba.

[ED: Exactly the same way Uncle George did. I've made a policy to sort of write in the crack and though I don't like everything that was done in RotJ... I accept it and work around it and with it. And no, sigh, this isn't the end. I have no less than 22 story ideas sitting around waiting to be written. And the list gets bigger all the time....]

Honestly, Turnabout is terrific, and I read it three times in the first week I had it!