Timothy Zahn’s upcoming novel Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising has been placed in the spotlight today as io9 offers up an exclusive excerpt from the September 1 novel in which Cadet Mitth’raw’nuru and a young Chiss named Al’iastov are featured from one of the book’s flashback moments. The link on io9’s website also includes narrator Marc Thompson reading the excerpt from the audiobook version of Chaos Rising.
Earlier today we learned the first edition printings of the novel would feature blue-colored edges and accents.
You can place your pre-order for Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising right here.
StarWars.com posted an excerpt from the novel last month in addition to revealing a look at the poster that will be available exclusively with the Barnes & Noble edition. We also were treated to an exclusive excerpt courtesy of IGN a few weeks ago.
In our exclusive excerpt below from one of Chaos Rising’s interstitial flashback moments—places throughout the story that highlight key memories from Thrawn’s past—Cadet Mitth’raw’nuru crosses paths with a fellow young Chiss named Al’iastov, who will go on to play a major part in his and Chaos Rising’s story.
Al’iastov is what is known as an ozyly-esehembo in the Chiss language, translated into Star Wars’ English-equivalent as a “sky-walker.” Sky-Walkers, who are mostly female, play vital roles aboard Chiss starships: they’re actually Force-sensitives, and use their precognitive abilities to help ships navigate through the volatile interstellar ephemera that made the Unknown Regions, well, unknown. But through use, their powers fade, and Al’iastov finds her career as a Sky-Walker near its end…until a chance meeting with a young Cadet potentially puts her on a very interesting path.
