Dave Dorman and Tom Veitch are interviewed by StarWars.com about Dark Empire, which unbelievably is 25 years old.
For fans who have grown up or come to the franchise in the years since Dark Empire, this might not seem surprising or revolutionary. But in 1991, we were at the tail end of a Star Wars drought. Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire had come out a few months before, but it had been years since Star Wars was truly a growing, thriving universe.
Dark Empire changed all that. Tom Veitch, Cam Kennedy, and Dave Dorman (along with countless others who helped bring the books to life) bestowed on Star Wars fandom an incredibly visual, cinematic story that felt like a true successor to the original trilogy. And in so doing, they effectively set precedent and laid the foundation for nearly three decades of Star Wars stories — both narratively and visually.
