From a Certain Point of View

From a Certain Point of View is an anthology of 40 short stories that was released on October 3, 2017, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Wars. The first book in the From a Certain Point of View series, each short story is told from the perspective of background characters in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The title's audiobook version was performed by a variety of narrators.
==Publisher's summary==
Forty years. Forty stories.
In honor of the fortieth anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope, this collection features Star Wars stories by bestselling authors, trendsetting artists, and treasured voices from Star Wars literary history. More than forty authors have lent their unique vision to forty "scenes," each retelling a different moment from the original Star Wars film, but with a twist: Every scene is told from the point of view of a background character. Whether it's the X-wing pilots who helped Luke destroy the Death Star or the stormtroopers who never quite could find the droids they were looking for, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View places the classic movie in a whole new perspective, and celebrates the influence and legacy of the unparalleled cultural phenomenon, Star Wars.
==Development==
From a Certain Point of View was first teased on social media on April 6, 2017, using the hashtag #OperationBlueMilk. The anthology was officially announced on April 7 with the news that it was a collection of 40 short stories, written by 40 authors, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which was released in 1977. The book was released in October 2017. It is now also available as an e-book.
The book is told from the perspective of background characters in A New Hope. Characters include X-wing pilots who fought in the Battle of Yavin alongside Luke Skywalker, as well as stormtroopers who searched for R2-D2 and C-3PO on Tatooine. The characters who populated the background of A New Hope helped create the world that fans fell in love with, so this book helps flesh those characters out in the official Star Wars canon.
==Stories==
From a Certain Point of View is a collection of 40 stories written by 43 authors. The stories, their authors, and their main characters are as follows:
Title 	Author(s) 	Character(s)
"Raymus" 	Gary Whitta 	Raymus Antilles
"The Bucket" 	Christie Golden 	Tarvyn Lareka
"The Sith of Datawork" 	Ken Liu 	Arvira
"Stories in the Sand" 	Griffin McElroy 	Jot
"Reirin" 	Sabaa Tahir 	Reirin
"The Red One" 	Rae Carson 	R5-D4
"Rites" 	John Jackson Miller 	A'Koba
"Master and Apprentice" 	Claudia Gray 	Qui-Gon Jinn
"Beru Whitesun Lars" 	Meg Cabot 	Beru Whitesun Lars
"The Luckless Rodian" 	Renée Ahdieh 	Greedo
"Not for Nothing" 	Mur Lafferty 	Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes
"We Don't Serve Their Kind Here"	Chuck Wendig 	Wuher
"The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper" 	Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction	Kabe, Muftak, Myo and Djas Puhr
"Added Muscle" 	Paul Dini 	Boba Fett
"You Owe Me a Ride" 	Zoraida Córdova 	Brea Tonnika and Senni Tonnika
"The Secrets of Long Snoot" 	Delilah S. Dawson 	Garindan ezz Zavor
"Born in the Storm" 	Daniel José Older 	Sardis Ramsin
"Laina" 	Wil Wheaton 	Ryland
"Fully Operational" 	Beth Revis 	Cassio Tagge
"An Incident Report" 	Daniel M. Lavery 	Conan Antonio Motti
"Change of Heart" 	Elizabeth Wein 	Unidentified Imperial Navy Trooper
"Eclipse" 	Madeleine Roux 	Breha Organa
"Verge of Greatness" 	Pablo Hidalgo 	Wilhuff Tarkin
"Far Too Remote" 	Jeffrey Brown 	Cassio Tagge
"The Trigger" 	Kieron Gillen 	Chelli Lona Aphra
"Of MSE-6 and Men" 	Glen Weldon 	MSE-6-G735Y
"Bump" 	Ben Acker and Ben Blacker 	TD-110
"End of Watch" 	Adam Christopher 	Pamel Poul
"The Baptist" 	Nnedi Okorafor 	Omi
"Time of Death" 	Cavan Scott 	Obi-Wan Kenobi
"There is Another" 	Gary D. Schmidt 	Yoda
"Palpatine" 	Ian Doescher 	Darth Sidious
"Sparks" 	Paul S. Kemp 	Dex Tiree
"Duty Roster" 	Jason Fry 	Col Takbright
"Desert Son" 	Pierce Brown 	Biggs Darklighter
"Grounded" 	Greg Rucka 	Nera Kase
"Contingency Plan" 	Alexander Freed 	Mon Mothma
"The Angle" 	Charles Soule 	Lando Calrissian
"By Whatever Sun" 	E. K. Johnston and Ashley Eckstein 	Miara Larte
"Whills" 	Tom Angleberger 	Unidentified Whill and another Whill
Additional authors were announced prior to the book's publication. All of the authors have forgone being compensated for their writing. The book's proceeds are being donated to First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides books and other educational material to teachers and children's organizations. Penguin Random House has also donated $100,000 to First Book, and Lucasfilm donated 100,000 children's books, valued at $1 million, as well.
In Star Wars Insider 174, Adam Savage was announced as an author for the book, but his work did not appear in the final product.Star Wars Insider 174
The audiobook features multiple narrators, including Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, and Marc Thompson.
==Continuity==
Although From a Certain Point of View forms part of the Star Wars canon, it presents several contradictions. As such, Lucasfilm Story Group's Matt Martin confirmed that the contradictions present in the stories were intentional, as that was part of the project's nature.
==Media==
===Editions===
====American====
*; October 3, 2017; Del Rey; US hardcover
*; October 3, 2017; Del Rey; US eBook
*; October 5, 2017; Del Rey; US hardcover, New York Comic Con 2017 Limited Convention EditionFrom a Certain Point of View, New York Comic Con 2017 Limited Convention Edition
*; November 10, 2020; Del Rey; US paperback
====International====
*; May 3, 2018; Arrow Books Ltd.; UK paperback
===Cover gallery===
File:Star_Wars_From_A_Certain_Point_of_View_cover.png|Solicitation cover
File:Star_Wars_From_a_Certain_Point_of_View_cover.png|Hardcover
File:From_a_Certain_Point_of_View_NYCC.jpg|New York Comic Con 2017 Limited Convention Edition
File:FACPOV-Paperback.png|Paperback
File:FACPOV_Arrow_UK_paperback_cover.jpg|Arrow Books Ltd. UK paperback
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