Via Blastr.com:
It’s taken a few decades, but a long-lost Star Wars novel has finally found the light of day — and it aims to tell one interpretation of what happened after the original trilogy.

Way back in the early 1990’s, author Kenneth C. Flint was tasked to write a novel that would have been set in the wake of Return of the Jedi. He finished the manuscript, did some editing, and sent it in to Bantam Spectra, the publisher who commissioned the piece. Then: nothing. The novel, dubbed Star Wars: The Heart of the Jedi, disappeared into editorial purgatory and was never heard of again.

As for what actually happened to Heart of the Jedi, it sounds like quite a sordid tale. Long story short, at least according to Flint, is that his editor apparently promised that 1993 publishing slot to a friend. So Flint’s novel languished until that other piece was finished … and Flint’s book stayed on the shelf forever. With little recourse, Flint just wrote the project off and moved on.

Now it’s finally escaped. The folks at Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline plan to publish the novel in multi-chapter chunks, and the first installment is officially online. As for what the book is actually about? Here’s what the author had to say about his efforts:

“I was given pretty much free rein on developing my plot, other than that it should take place immediately after the second Death Star is destroyed. I up front figured it would be most logical to deal with a defeated but not destroyed Empire, its military desperately trying to regroup and retaliate against the Alliance, while other elements sought to make peace. Along with this was my assumption that I had to deal with what Luke Skywalker had become, and where he was going as a Jedi.”

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