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Outbound Flight: Star Wars Legends
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Outbound Flight: Star Wars Legends
Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

Outbound Flight: Star Wars Legends

Written by Timothy Zahn

Narrated by Jonathan Davis

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery-only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable-and doomed-Outbound Flight Project.

The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children will embark-aboard a gargantuan vessel, equipped for years of travel-on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. The government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even start-until Master C'baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.

Or so it would seem. For unknown to the famed Jedi Master, the successful launch of the mission is secretly being orchestrated by an unlikely ally: the evil Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, who has his own reasons for wanting Outbound Flight to move forward . . . and, ultimately, to fail.

Yet Darth Sidious is not the mission's most dangerous challenge. Once underway, the starship crosses paths at the edge of Unknown Space with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind best known as "Thrawn." Even Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, aboard Outbound Flight with his young Padawan student, Anakin Skywalker, cannot help avert disaster. Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival against staggering odds-and the most diabolical of adversaries.

Timothy Zahn's unique mix of espionage, political gamesmanship, and deadly interstellar combat breathes electrifying life into a Star Wars legend.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 20, 2007
ISBN9780739357026
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Outbound Flight: Star Wars Legends
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Timothy Zahn

Timothy Zahn is the New York Times–bestselling science fiction author of more than forty novels, as well as many novellas and short stories. Best known for his contributions to the expanded Star Wars universe of books, including the Thrawn trilogy, Zahn also wrote the Cobra series and the young adult Dragonback series—the first novel of which, Dragon and Thief, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Zahn currently resides in Oregon with his family.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A colony led by the Jedi (one of whom is incredibly pompous and controlling) is sabotaged from within as well as without.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A colony led by the Jedi (one of whom is incredibly pompous and controlling) is sabotaged from within as well as without.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Pretty cool tie in to the Thrawn Trilogy. what astounded me was all the music and sound effects added to the audiobook. it's going to be pretty hard to go back to listening to standard audiobooks after this.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book was excellent! Timothy Zahn continues to impress with his excellent writing and ability to surprise you even though, as a Star Wars fan, you know the outcome. The one downside is this is abridged, and for some reason they felt leaving serious detail off of the very end was a good idea. Fair warning the audiobook leaves you without full closure. I would recommend going back and reading the last few chapters from paperback for true closure. Highly recommend this book and anything Timothy Zahn writes
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Fun Star Wars 'splosions but lazy plotting, pacing and characters.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This author never disappoints. The reader did a great job.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a really great listen, a very very different side of the Thrawn we grew to know and love in Thrawn Trilogy. Definitely worth the time if you want to see a young, kinder Thrawn.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A great side story in the Star Wars universe! Essential for Thrawn fans, as it heavily features him as a main role. Zahn’s writing shines here again, as he illustrates intense spare battles and unique new ships, species, and concepts. Thrawn’s tactical brilliance is always fun to read, as well as the enrichment on the background of his family and the Chiss Ascendancy. For fans of the original Thrawn trilogy, it is also fun to read about the original Jorus C’Baoth and his role in Outbound Flight. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    NOTE: Some minor spoilers may follow.

    Timothy Zahn did a truly excellent job with young Commander Thrawn; I enjoyed his interactions with Car'das, but especially his tactics and strategy for dealing with the Vagaari and Outbound Flight.

    Speaking of Outbound Flight, I enjoyed the perspective of the Jedi, but I felt that perhaps Zahn covered too much ground. We went from before Outbound Flight was officially and finally green-lit until its destruction, and I thought more could have been done on the vessel (especially as things deteriorated between C'baoth and the non-Jedi crew). I also thought that, while Obi-wan was well portrayed, Anakin was a bit wooden (I guess maybe it was the Hayden-Christensen-in-"Attack-of-the-Clones" version).

    C'baoth, I had read before reading this book, seemed to be way too much of a jerk to be a genuine Jedi Master. Sure, he apparently had a lot of power and a lot of experience, but he was completely emotional, arrogant, and obsessed, and nobody ever called him on it (to his face, at any rate). It's a fair question to wonder how such a man managed to become a Jedi Master. Still, it does explain his clone's personality, and it seems to have been the only way to compel Thrawn to destroy Outbound Flight in the end.

    Ultimately, I enjoyed the book immensely, but it wasn't Zahn's best work.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Abridged. it doesn't tell you in Scribd that it is, but if you look at Audible, it's the same length, but also says abridged. I'm told the story is great, but the narration is subpar. voice acting was good, but it's so choppy it often doesn't make sense. you can tell they recorded dialogue, and then went back and added the non-dialogue parts; the phrasing is often awkward and often sentences feel detached from the sentence prior.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    If only it was not an abridged version...
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The premise: ganked from BN.com: It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery -- only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable–and doomed–Outbound Flight Project.The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children will embark -- aboard a gargantuan vessel, equipped for years of travel -- on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. The government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even start -- until Master C’baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.Or so it would seem. For unknown to the famed Jedi Master, the successful launch of the mission is secretly being orchestrated by an unlikely ally: the evil Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, who has his own reasons for wanting Outbound Flight to move forward . . . and, ultimately, to fail.Yet Darth Sidious is not the mission’s most dangerous challenge. Once underway, the starship crosses paths at the edge of Unknown Space with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind best known as “Thrawn.” Even Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, aboard Outbound Flight with his young Padawan student, Anakin Skywalker, cannot help avert disaster. Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival against staggering odds -- and the most diabolical of adversaries.Timothy Zahn’s unique mix of espionage, political gamesmanship, and deadly interstellar combat breathes electrifying life into a Star Wars legend.My Rating: 7 - Good ReadThe hiccups I had with this book were very, very minor. I enjoyed the hell out of reading this. For the most part, it was smooth reading, and Zahn has a wonderful way of tying events in this book to events that happen prior to and long after the events of this book, and that made everything utterly delightful for me. Reading this makes me want to re-read Zahn's Thrawn trilogy (starting with Heir to the Empire, which is a GREAT gateway book to the Expanded Universe), which I may do some day when I feel I have the time available. Zahn tells a great yarn without overly relying on familiar characters from the films (though Anakin and Obi-Wan do play a solid role in the book) while making care for characters you've not met before. I was utterly thrilled with this novel, and now I'm really, really looking forward to all of the Zahn-penned Star Wars books I haven't gotten around to yet. In terms of readability, readers who've read everything up until this point will do very well with this. Newer readers may have issues, but I'd like to think the book's strong enough to stand on its own two feet, so long as you enjoy reading SF in general. It's got a good arc, and you really feel for the characters (and really hate the ones you're supposed to hate). This has been the best Star Wars Expanded Universe novel I've read since I started back up in December. I hope future books are just as good.Spoilers, yay or nay?: Yay. And I also want to point out: there will be spoilers, at any given moment, for the entire run of Star Wars books up until the date the current book was published. So if the Star Wars are something you want to get into, stop now and read THIS instead. I don't recommend anyone reading the full review unless they've read the book I'm reviewing now, due to aforementioned spoilers, so stop now or -- if you have read the book -- carry on! You can find the full review at my blog, which is linked below, and as always, comments and discussion are most welcome.REVIEW: Timothy Zahn's STAR WARS: OUTBOUND FLIGHTHappy Reading!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Zahn's book is yet another page turner, quite enjoyable and well blended in the SW universe. Going back to the origins of already-developed characters he draws a credible (even within SF) story. And Anakin... is as unsufferable a prick as in the movies.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    In Star Wars: Outbound Flight, the oftentimes cranky and ornery Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth is undertaking a far ranging mission of expansion to uncharted galaxies. Initially opposed by Emperor Palpatine, he sees it as a way to dispose of the jedi master as well as the other jedi that are taking part in the mission, including Obi Wan Kenobi, who is sent by Mace Windu to look over the project. Outbound Flight is ambushed by an advanced alien race as Sith lord Darth Sidious aims to take out the flight.The plot was solid and the writing was competent enough, as Timothy Zahn has displayed in previous works, but there was nothing about the book that really stood out. This strikes me as a novel that I will likely forget about in a year. There was no new ground either in the portrayal of the characters or the story line. The best part of the book was the excellent job of the narrator in the audio format that I listened to. Although not a bad read, this isn't something I would go out of my way to pick up.Carl Alves - author of Blood Street
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Outbound Flight is a mission to explore the galaxies beyond the one Star wars is set in. It's the first book in the Star Wars chronology to include Thrawn - one of the most famous characters in the Extended Universe, and it's for this reason that I chose to read it. And it was a good decision.The characters were generally done well. I liked Jorus C'Baoth's Apprentice, Lorana, and Thrawn's guest Car'das quite a lot. Then there was the Chancellor. Palpatine is an incredibly complex character, and a very important one. And I've never seen him portrayed better. But there was also the two main players in the book. Thrawn and C'Baoth. I wasn't amazed by C'Baoth, but I think that's more because I didn't like him as a person, than didn't like how he was written. But Thrawn I did like. I haven't actually read the trilogy he was first written about in, but after reading this book I will be. He's a fascinating character, and I found myself looking forwards to those chapters about his storyline. The only thing he didn't have was any flaws. He was a little too perfect. But that didn't mean I didn't enjoy reading about him. He was extremely well written.I felt that the inclusion of Anakin and Obi-Wan was rather unneccesary. I felt like it was done just because they were famous characters, rather than because they would add anything to the story. They weren't major characters, didn't do an awful lot, but hung around where all the important stuff things happened, disagreeing and agreeing with C'Baoth respectively. I didn't really understand what they were there for.But it was an excellent story otherwise, two main storylines that merge towards the end of the book, but full of moments that make you think "that was clever". The two masterminds of the book are facinating to read about, and some of the tactics and technology of the various groups was extremely interesting. Especially the methods of the Vagaari, which were brutal, but again were a clever idea. And it manages to link into much of the other stories in the star wars universe. It has ties to the previous books, "The Phantom Menace" and "Rogue Planet". It also links into the Thrawn books, by the same author, by introducing their eponymous character. and then it hints at the events in the New Jedi Order, which is set over fifty years later.There was one thing that I felt the story could have done with, was a small bit of back story about Vergere, a missing Jedi. It wasn't an important plot point, just mentioned a couple of times as an indirect mission of Outbound flight. It could be picked up by the end of the book that she had gone missing, and where, but it would have been handy if there had been a brief paragraph about what she was doing when she went missing, or perhaps a bigger mention of Obi-Wan's search for her (This is the subject of the book set before outbound flight, "Rogue Planet").From a technical point of view, I couldn't see anything wrong with the writing at all. No typos, no weird formatting. Not even any badly worded sentences. Zahn is a brilliant writer, and this work reflects that. Although reading Rogue Planet before hand might be useful for that one thing, this is a really good entry to the Star Wars saga and a highly interesting read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A mixed lot. The opening is surpassingly slow and rivals the worst wooden scenes between Obi Wan and Anakin in the movies; Zahn catches the awkward tone of the script perfectly. Feel free to skim anything featuring these two. The real joy, of course, is seeing more of Zahn's greatest character, Thrawn. Zahn writes him like the alien love child of Sherlock Holmes and Napoleon, and it's great fun watching Thrawn outwit the galaxy again. The young smuggler whose point of view we follow in the Thrawn storyline isn't very annoying at all. Then, we have a pleasant surprise in the form of Jedi Lorana Jinzler; Lorana's storyline is readable, and I became fond of the character.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was not what I was expecting it to be but it surprised me and I found it to be a greatly enjoyable book. This has less to do with Jedi and lightsabers than most Star Wars books out there and while those things are present they are not near the top of the list. The story fallows the progress of a mission called Outbound Flight (which you can surmise from the books title) and it's eventual disaster, it's a very technical read and for some may be a bit to heavy on details but for any Star Wars fan I think this would be an enjoyable read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What incident tipped the balance toward the future Empire? What collision set off explosions all the way down the galactic timeline? Three Republic smugglers are lost in the outer regions, armed only with their language skills and their wits. One group of colonists sets out on a mission that will waken something deadlier than the galaxy is yet prepared to face, while their leader is driven to push the barriers of both the galaxy and the Jedi code. And a singular alien mind stands poised, destined either to rise to historic greatness among his own people, a champion of the oppressed, or to lose everything he holds dear, rising again as the greatest tactician in the Empire, his real motives an eternal question. Here, at last, the fateful day. Who wants to yell "Stop!"? Cue music
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A colony led by the Jedi (one of whom is incredibly pompous and controlling) is sabotaged from within as well as without.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Timothy Zahn's books are definitely the cream of the crop as far as Star Wars novels are concerned, and this book takes it to another level. He ties this story into his original Thrawn trilogy, Survivor's Quest, and the New Jedi Order incredibly well. He even provides a glimpse of Anakin Skywalker getting his first role model of Jedi as fascist powermonger. It's a great read, especially for anyone who has enjoyed his previous novels. I just hope this isn't his last Star Wars (and Thrawn) project.Another thing I really admire about this book, aside from how everything ties together, is that everything is in shades of gray and not necessarily the way you would expect. One of the major characters is a Jedi who is unsure of herself and her master, and this character really comes into her own as situations demand. The book also gives a good feel for how normal people could come to fear and mistrust the Jedi. On the flip side, it also implies that Palpatine's reasons for taking over the galaxy were not wholly evil, even if his actions generally were. I really dig the character complexity, which is something you don't always get, especially to this degree, from Star Wars.