Auszüge aus Scoundrels und Scourge

Zur Feier von 30.000 Likes für die offizielle Del-Rey-Facebookseite, gibt es zum Wochenende drei nette Vorschauen für Literaturfreunde:

Nr. 1 ist ein Auszug aus Timothy Zahns Scoundrels:

One shot was all Falsta got. An instant later his blaster was pointed harmlessly at the ceiling, frozen in place by Chewbacca’s iron grip around both the weapon and the hand holding it.

That should have been the end of it. Falsta should have conceded defeat, surrendered his blaster, and walked out of the cantina, a little humiliated but still alive.

But Falsta had never been the type to concede anything. Even as he blinked furiously at the ale still running down into his eyes, his left hand jabbed like a knife inside his jacket and emerged with a small hold-out blaster.

He was in the process of lining up the weapon when Han shot him under the table. Falsta fell forward, his right arm still raised in Chewbacca’s grip, his hold-out blaster clattering across the tabletop before it came to a halt. Chewbacca held that pose another moment, then lowered Falsta’s arm to the table, deftly removing the blaster from the dead man’s hand as he did so.

For a half dozen seconds Han didn’t move, gripping his blaster under the table, his eyes darting around the cantina. The place had gone quiet, with practically every eye now focused on him. As far as he could tell no one had drawn a weapon, but most of the patrons at the nearest tables had their hands on or near their holsters.

Chewbacca rumbled a warning. “You all saw it,” Han called, though he doubted more than a few of them actually had. “He shot first.”

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Vorschau Nr. 2 besteht aus 3 Seiten aus Jeff Grubbs Huttenroman Scourge:

Auch dieser Roman lässt sich bei Interesse selbstredend bereits vorbestellen.

Und Vorschau Nr. 3 sind 4 vorläufige Illustrationen aus dem Essential Reader’s Companion: