# From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars) - Hardcover

by **Seth Dickinson** (Author), **Hank Green** (Author), **R. F. Kuang** (Author)

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Celebrate the legacy of _The Empire Strikes Back_ with this exciting reimagining of the timeless film featuring new perspectives from forty acclaimed authors.**

On May 21, 1980, Star Wars became a true saga with the release of _The Empire Strikes Back_. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from _The Empire Strikes Back_ through the eyes of a supporting character, from heroes and villains, to droids and creatures. _From a Certain Point of View_ features contributions by bestselling authors and trendsetting artists:

\- **_Austin Walker_** explores the unlikely partnership of bounty hunters Dengar and IG-88 as they pursue Han Solo.  
\- **_Hank Green_** chronicles the life of a naturalist caring for tauntauns on the frozen world of Hoth.  
\- **_Tracy Deonn_** delves into the dark heart of the Dagobah cave where Luke confronts a terrifying vision.  
\- **_Martha Wells_** reveals the world of the Ugnaught clans who dwell in the depths of Cloud City.  
\- **_Mark Oshiro_** recounts the wampa's tragic tale of loss and survival.  
\- **_Seth Dickinson_** interrogates the cost of serving a ruthless empire aboard the bridge of a doomed Imperial starship.

**Plus more hilarious, heartbreaking, and astonishing tales from:**  
Tom Angleberger, Sarwat Chadda, S. A. Chakraborty, Mike Chen, Adam Christopher, Katie Cook, Zoraida Córdova, Delilah S. Dawson, Alexander Freed, Jason Fry, Christie Golden, Rob Hart, Lydia Kang, Michael Kogge, R. F. Kuang, C. B. Lee, Mackenzi Lee, John Jackson Miller, Michael Moreci, Daniel José Older, Amy Ratcliffe, Beth Revis, Lilliam Rivera, Cavan Scott, Emily Skrutskie, Karen Strong, Anne Toole, Catherynne M. Valente, Django Wexler, Kiersten White, Gary Whitta, Brittany N. Williams, Charles Yu, Jim Zub

All participating authors have generously forgone any compensation for their stories. Instead, their proceeds will be donated to First Book--a leading nonprofit that provides new books, learning materials, and other essentials to educators and organizations serving children in need. To further celebrate the launch of this book and both companies' longstanding relationships with First Book, Penguin Random House will donate $100,000 to First Book and Disney/Lucasfilm will donate 100,000 children's books--valued at $1,000,000--to support First Book and their mission of providing equal access to quality education.

### Author Biography

**Seth Dickinson** is the author of _The Traitor Baru Cormorant,_ the forthcoming _Exordia,_ and many short stories. Seth has also written lore for _Destiny_ and _Godfall_ and designed the open-source space opera _Blue Planet_. The use of the Force to interfere in the secular universe is inevitably corrupting, so all light-side Force users either become petty police or withdraw into Taoist meditation in search of absolute truth. This leaves the use of the Force as a political power to malevolent dark-side adepts, who can only be resisted by their light-side counterparts. The attempt to find a just yet enlightened resolution to this paradox is the heart of _Star Wars_. Seth dreams of becoming a muscular yet small-brained deepwater fish.

**Hank Green** is the #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of _An Absolutely Remarkable Thing_ and _A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor_. He's also the CEO of Complexly, a production company that creates educational content, including Crash Course and SciShow, prompting _The Washington Post_ to name him "one of America's most popular science teachers." Complexly's videos have been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube. Hank and his brother, John, are also raising money to dramatically and systematically improve maternal health care in Sierra Leone, where, if trends continue, one in seventeen women will die in childbirth.

**R. F. Kuang** is the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy award nominated author of _The Poppy War_ and _The Dragon Republic_ (HarperVoyager). She has an MPhil in Chinese studies from the University of Cambridge and is currently pursuing an MSc in contemporary Chinese studies at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. She also translates Chinese science fiction to English. Her debut _The Poppy War_ was listed by _Time_ and _The Guardian_ as one of the best books of 2018 and has won the Crawford Award and Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel.

**Martha Wells** has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and a _Star Wars_ fan since she saw _A New Hope_ in the theater in 1977. Her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, _The Death of the Necromancer_, the Ile-Rien trilogy, The Murderbot Diaries series, media tie-ins for _Star Wars_ and _Stargate: Atlantis_, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and nonfiction. She was also the lead writer for the story team of Magic: The Gathering's Dominaria expansion in 2018. She has won a Nebula Award, two Hugo Awards, and two Locus Awards, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the _USA Today_ bestseller list, and the _New York Times_ bestseller list.

**Kiersten White** is the _New York Times_ bestselling, Stoker Award-winning author of many books, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, and _The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein_. She owns a perfectly reasonable number of lightsabers, and sometimes even lets her kids play with them.

**Number of Pages:** 576

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 8.3 x 6.3 IN

**Publication Date:** November 10, 2020

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