Star Wars: Jedi Search

Jedi Search is the first novel of the Jedi Academy Trilogy, written by Kevin J. Anderson and published by Bantam Spectra in March 1994. Narration for the audio version was performed by Anthony Heald.

American

 * ISBN 0553297988; March 1994, Bantam Spectra, 354-page paperback.
 * ISBN 0553471996 and ISBN 0553745123; March 1994, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, 2 abridged cassettes (3 hrs.).
 * ISBN 0606082026; March 1994, Sagebrush Corporation, Turtleback.

Foreign

 * ISBN 380252313X; March 1994, VGS, 394-page German hardcover.
 * ISBN 0553408089; June 30, 1994, Transworld Publishers, 384-page UK paperback.
 * ISBN 0001050842; January 22, 1996, HarperCollins Publishers, UK abridged cassette.
 * ISBN 807186918X; 2003, EGMONT ČR, 249-page Czech paperback (Hledání Jedi).

Publisher's summary
'As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children—the Jedi twins—will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraordinary new Star Wars saga begins&hellip;'

While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine.

But when Han and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret Imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes—and go from one danger to a far greater one&hellip;

''On Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends, only to come face-to-face with a weapon so awesome, it can wipe out an entire solar system. It is a death ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by a reclusive genius and piloted by none other than Han himself&hellip;''

Behind the scenes
Halfway into the novel and audio book, Luke thinks back to his fight with Vader in Cloud City and the terrible message; "Luke, I am your father!" which is the often real world misquoted version of "No, I am your father!" Also in the novel Han said to Kyp, he remember he and Leia met Vima-Da-Boda on Nal Hutta, but in the Dark Empire they met her on Nal Hutta's moon Nar Shaddaa.

Cover gallery
This is a gallery of the different cover variations of Jedi Search.