The Bespin Book Club

Author:  Tom Huddleston Time:  18 BBY, a year after the events of  Revenge of the Sith . The Empire is beginning its rule. Place: Agaris, a fungus-filled planet in Wild Space. After months of searching, Lina and Milo Graf have finally  located their parents. They're being held captive on an Imperial mining colony, Agaris. Coincidentally, the Grafs were the first cartographers to map the planet. The kids have taken an Imperial ship and, pursued by TIE fighters, manage to land on Agaris. They are attacked by a "stalk". You see, Agaris is covered in a forest of giant mushrooms, and some of them like to shoot spiked spores at ships. Ships like the Grafs'. Their ship goes down, and their droid CR-8R gets impaled by a spike. To avoid capture by stormtroopers, Lina and Milo leave CR-8R behind. They run into the mushroom forest. The stormtroopers follow and are attacked by an unknown creature in the mist. Meanwhile, Governor Tarkin is here to oversee the mining ope...

    Author:  Tom Huddleston Time:  18 BBY, a year after the events of  Revenge of the Sith . The Empire is beginning its rule. Place: Space, aboard Shalla Mondatha's space food truck  Moveable Feast . Lina and Milo Graf are imprisoned on Shalla Mondatha's transport ship. Shalla--a.k.a. the bounty hunter The Shade--is bringing them to Imperial Captain Visler Korda. He has the Graf's parents captive, and he wants the information in their droid CR-8R's head. Shalla has put a restraining bolt on CR-8R to get him to comply. Before leaving Lothal’s space, she receives a couple more random prisoners from stormtroopers: a Lasat named Davin and a red headed human named Stel. En route to Korda, the kids hear some loud noises and the ship exits hyperspace. Everything in the ship seems to be on the fritz, including CR-8R's restraining bolt. He comes to rescue the Graf children. They leave the other two prisoners in their cells, promising to come back and rescue th...

   Author: Tom Huddleston Time:  18 BBY, a year after the events of  Revenge of the Sith . The Empire is beginning its rule. Place:  Xirl, a (mostly) uninhabited planet in Wild Space. In this next installment of the Adventures in Wild Space  series,  Lina and Milo Graf are still on the hunt for their parents, who were abducted by Captain Visler Korda. They intercepted an anti-Empire transmission at the end of the last book. Their new goal is to find the source of the message. They hope that person may be able to help them. They end up on the planet Xirl. It's basically a big jungle. There is a landing strip but only one building: a hunting lodge. It's filled with taxidermied creatures from all over the galaxy. The children don't spot anyone, so they go exploring. They find the wreckage of a freighter. They don't need the giant claw marks and splattered blood to tell that something's clearly not right here. They meet the owner of the lodge (and the...