At the Guardian, he tagged his top ten sci-fi sagas for teens, including:Splinter of the Mind’s Eye by Alan Dean FosterRead about another entry on the list.
Disney is kicking the Star Wars franchise back into life this year with a new series of sequel movies and tie-in novels and comics which expand the canonical universe that’s still so far, far away. But here was the very first sequel, a tense and exciting drama on a deadly swamp world that pitched Luke and Leia and the droids against Vader and his troopers. I was eight in 1978 when this came out and I was agog. Reading this was like being let into secrets about what happened after that first, brilliant movie.
--Marshal Zeringue
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