Uneven, but I counted on this going in. A bunch of stories held no interest for me, which is to be expected when you just say "Star Wars: go!". Still, I did enjoy the idea of generally following along with A New Hope instead of just giving us stories from any time period willy-nilly.

FWIW, here are the stories I remember being worth reading. Bolded ones especially so.

• The Sith of Datawork, by Ken Liu


• The Red One, by Rae Carson


• Master and Apprentice, by Claudia Gray


• Beru Whitesun Lars, by Meg Cabot


• Born in the Storm, by Daniel José Older


• An Incident Report, by Mallory Ortberg


• Change of Heart, by Elizabeth Wein


• Far Too Remote, by Jeffrey Brown


• The Trigger, by Kieron Gillen


• Bum, by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker


• The Baptist, by Nnedi Okorafor


• Time of Death
, by Cavan Scott

• There is Another
, by Gary D. Schmidt

• Desert Son, by Pierce Brown


• Grounded, by Greg Rucka


• Contingency Plan, by Alexander Freed