FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW ESB Authors Revealed [Updated]
For the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, Del Rey will be publishing From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, a sequel to the anthology that covered events of A New Hope.
The anthology will feature forty short stories by forty authors, and a number of them are not well known. Tom Hoeler, an editor at Del Rey, says this is by design, posting on Twitter that expanding the roster of contributors in the Star Wars universe was an objective.
One more #FromaCertainPOVStrikesBack note
Most of the contributors are new. One of the goals of the FACPOV series is expanding the voices telling #StarWars stories
Star Wars is for everyone, and we have to keep working so the voices telling SW stories better reflects that.
— Tom (@DarthInternous) June 12, 2020
The first anthology, From a Certain Point of View: A New Hope, was released on October 3, 2017 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie released in 1977. (Some call it A New Hope, while some still call it Star Wars.) That anthology also collected forty stories by forty-three authors. A new paperback edition will be published in October, prior to the release of the new collection.
SciFi4Me has been able to piece together a complete list from the announcements made over social media:
- Tom Angleberger
- Sarwat Chadda
- S.A. Chakraborty
- Mike Chen
- Adam Christopher
- Zoraida Córdova
- Delilah Dawson
- Tracy Deonn09
- Seth Dickinson
- Alexander Freed
- Jason Fry
- Christie Golden
- Hank Green
- Rob Hart
- E.K. Johnson
- Lydia Kang
- Rebecca F. Kuang
- Michael Kogge
- C.B. Lee
- Mackenzi Lee
- John Jackson Miller
- Michael Moreci
- Daniel José Older
- Mark Oshiro
- Amy Ratcliffe
- Beth Revis
- Lilliam Rivera
- Cavan Scott
- Emily Skrutskie
- Karen Strong
- Anne Toole
- Catherynne M. Valente
- Austin Walker
- Martha Wells
- Django Wexler
- Kiersten White
- Gary Whitta
- Brittany N. Williams
- Charles Yu
- Jim Zub
As with the first anthology, all of the authors are foregoing their fees. Proceeds from the sales will be donated to First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides new books, learning materials, and other supplies to educators and organizations that serve children in need. Del Rey’s parent company, Penguin Random House, will donate $100,000 to First Books. Disney and Lucasfilm will also donate 100,000 children’s books, valued at $1 million, to support the organization.
The anthology will hit shelves November 10.
(updated 6-13 to add Cavan Scott and Hank Green)
(updated 6-14 to add Anne Toole)
(updated 6-15 to add Seth Dickinson and complete the list)
