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Shadows of the Empire

Star Wars Legends

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Shadows of the Empire

By: Steve Perry
Narrated by: Marc Thompson
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Shadows of the Empire illuminates the shadowy outlines of a criminal conspiracy that exists in the background of the events in the movies, ruled by a character new to us. Prince Xizor is a mastermind of evil who dares to oppose one of the best-known fictional villains of all time: Darth Vader. The story involves all the featured Star Wars movie characters, plus Emperor Palpatine and, of course, Lord Vader himself.

©1996 Steve Perry (P)2025 Random House Audio Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera

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Far superior to the old abridged version and it's great to relive that time of being a star wars fan. The only minor disappointment is they didn't use the original soundtrack created for shadows of the empire for this version. Great performance as usual.

The classic EU adventure

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Great story and very well narrated. Nice to relive an old classic. There's plenty of room for the new stories and the old legends stories

classic EU

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Loved every second of revisiting this. Great narration and production.

Shadows of the Empire is as much part of Star Wars to me as the films. I remember discovering this book as a kid, along with the Thrawn trilogy, and it was a real rush to realise there was more Star Wars.

Brilliant

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Yet again another amazing Audio book for Star Wars Legends. The voices are incredible.

Amazing

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.....that the old ones are the best. Classic Star Wars novel. Action, comedy all delivered by a brilliant narrator and fantastic music and special affects. Well worth a credit.

Proof positive.....

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I enjoyed this book a lot when I first read it in my teens, I’m not sure how I feel about all the chewbacca ‘dialogue’ in this audio version though, it’s a bit off putting 😅

Nostalgic fun

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