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#Giveaway Excerpt THE LEGENDS OF LUKE SKYWALKER by Ken Liu @kyliu99 @DisneyHyperion 11.6

November 1, 2017 By Mary

THE LEGENDS OF LUKE SKYWALKER 

About The Book
Title: THE LEGENDS OF LUKE SKYWALKER
Author: Ken Liu
Pub. Date: October 31, 2017
Publisher: Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 432
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook
Find it: Amazon, Audible, B&N, TBD, Goodreads

 

As a cargo ship rockets across the galaxy to Canto Bight, the deckhands on board trade stories about legendary Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. But are the stories of iconic and mysterious Luke Skywalker true, or merely tall tales passed from one corner of the galaxy to another? Is Skywalker really a famous Jedi hero, an elaborate charlatan,or even part droid? The deckhands will have to decide for themselves when they hear The Legends of Luke Skywalker.

A collection of myths and tall-tales about the legendary Jedi Luke Skywalker, written by Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy award-winning author Ken Liu.

READ AN EXCERPT ON EW.COM

Read an excerpt of Ken Liu’s ‘The Legends of Luke Skywalker’ novel

 

About Ken:

Ken Liu is an author of speculative fiction, as well as a translator, lawyer, and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places.

Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings (2015), is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty. It won the Locus Best First Novel Award and was a Nebula finalist. He subsequently published the second volume in the series, The Wall of Storms (2016) as well as a collection of short stories, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016). He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017).

In addition to his original fiction, Ken also translated numerous literary and genre works from Chinese to English. His translation of The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015, the first translated novel ever to receive that honor. He also translated the third volume in Liu Cixin’s series, Death’s End (2016) and edited the first English-language anthology of contemporary Chinese science fiction, Invisible Planets (2016).

 

He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of THE LEGENDS OF LUKE SKYWALKER, US Only.

 

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Tour Schedule:
Week One:
10/23/2017- Page Turners Blog– Spotlight
10/24/2017- Twinning for Books– Spotlight
10/25/2017- Mama Reads Blog– Spotlight
10/26/2017- Tales of the Ravenous Reader– Interview
10/27/2017- Eli to the nth– Spotlight

Week Two:
10/30/2017- Nerdophiles– Interview
10/31/2017- Fiction Fare– Spotlight
11/1/2017- Mundie Moms– Spotlight
11/2/2017- BookHounds YA– Excerpt 
11/3/2017- Margie’s Must Reads– Guest Post

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Comments

  1. Cecilia Rodriguez says

    November 2, 2017 at 6:36 am

    I hope he manages to provide a unique perspective on such an iconic character

  2. Sandra Watts says

    November 2, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    I am entering for my son. He would love this.

  3. bill norris says

    November 6, 2017 at 2:24 pm

    loving the cover, cant wait to read this.

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