Heir to the Empire: The 20th Anniversary Edition

Heir to the Empire: The 20th Anniversary Edition is a reissue of the 1991 Star Wars Legends novel Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn. This special twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new introduction by Zahn, a new foreword by Lucasfilm's Howard Roffman, annotations by Zahn and editor Betsy Mitchell, and an all-new novella by Zahn, Crisis of Faith, featuring Grand Admiral Thrawn. It was published by Del Rey on September 6, 2011.
==Publisher's summary==
Five years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins, and Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights.
But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor’s warlords—the brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to create.
The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scale—in short, a story worthy of the name Star Wars.
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==Development==
Heir to the Empire: The 20th Anniversary Edition was originally scheduled for a June 21, 2011 release.
==Media==
===Editions===
*; September 6, 2011; Del Rey; US hardcover
*; September 6, 2011; Del Rey; US eBook
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*Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition
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Category:Legends novels