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"Came the dawn, with a full night's rest under his stylish if somewhat wrinkled satyn semiformal cummerbund..."

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"He himself had tossed and turned, sweating into the fancy and expensive synsilk bedroll he’d spread under the common-room gaming table, and finally achieving an unrestful semiconsciousness from which the robot had awakened him, stiff and groggy."

Not what I'd call "a full night's rest".

The dialogue and characterisation is so corny, I'd think this was written for kids, if not for the copious smoking, drinking, and gambling, not to mention a SWAT team breaking Lando's door down and beating him up before taking him into custody.

I had heard these were bad, but I was hoping it was just a case of outlandish plots, which would have been the "good" kind of bad. I need to lower my expectations for this one.

One interesting thing is that we have what they're calling a sorcerer showing up here, appearing in a puff of smoke. Granted, Darth Vader was called a sorcerer in the first movie, but here there hasn't been a single mention of the Force.

Really sloppy book. How are these buildings "ruins" if they're sealed and impenetrable even by laser cutters? How do these creatures' offspring survive if the adults only reproduce in gravity wells that crush them within hours? Elsewhere, characters play sabacc on an asteroid with minimal gravity so people can launch themselves through the air, but they toss objects onto a table and the objects fall normally.

The beginning exposition has been very boring and hard to get through. The author also chose not to use Lando's name at all for the first 3 pages, only calling him "the young gambler", until finally another character calls him by name, as if we don't already know who we're reading about. Plus, the story is written from Lando's point of view, and he knows what his own name is, so why pretend it's a mystery?

lando meets some higher being and asks for a cigarette not even kidding im crying