Tales from Jabba's Palace

"If I told you half the things I've heard about this Jabba the Hutt, you'd probably short-circuit!"

- C-3PO, to R2-D2. The introductory quote to Tales from Jabba's Palace.

Tales from Jabba's Palace is the second anthology of short-stories in the thematic Tales series. As with the first and third installments to the series, Tales from Jabba's Palace gives the complete background stories of some of the minor characters glimpsed in the Original trilogy. This specific anthology covers the stories of the characters that were within Jabba's Palace during the events viewed in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Tales from Jabba's Palace contains nineteen original short-stories edited by Kevin J. Anderson and composed by twenty-one different authors with cover-art by Stephen Youll. The timeline in which the books takes place begins approximately around 0 BBY. However, all the short-stories within the anthology, at so point or another, narrate certain events that came to pass during 4 ABY.

Jabba Desilijic Tiure, or more commonly, Jabba the Hutt, was a Hutt crime lord who abode in an ancient palace on the edge of the northern Dune Sea on the Outer Rim planet of Tatooine. Many individuals were drawn to Jabba's palace due to his great wealth and power. Some of those characters came to indulge in Jabba's might and fortune. Others to steal it. And some others who, whether by good intention or not, were swept up in the whirlwind of plots and dealings that surrounded the Bloated One. The stories of all such characters are recorded within Tales from Jabba's Palace.

Front cover tag-line
Enter the lair of the Galaxy's most notorious criminal–in nineteen stories from today's masters of science fiction.

Back-cover blurb
''In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt might have made a good joke—if he weren’t so dangerous. A cast of soldiers, spies, assassins, scoundrels, bounty hunters, and pleasure seekers have come to his palace, and every visitor to Jabba’s grand abode has a story. Some of them may even live to tell it.…''

Featuring original stories by…

Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson has written numerous Star Wars novels, graphic novels, and short stories. Along with editing Tales from Jabba's Palace, Anderson also composed the tale A Boy and His Monster: The Rancor Keeper's Tale.

M. Shayne Bell
M. Shayne Bell has contributed to Star Wars canon by authoring a short story for each of the first three anthologies in the Tales series. Of the Day's Annoyances: Bib Fortuna's Tale is his work collected within Tales from Jabba's Palace.

John Gregory Betancourt
John Gregory Betancourt is an author of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels. His only Star Wars work was And the Band Played On: The Band's Tale.

Mark Budz and Marina Fitch
Husband and wife, Mark Budz and Marina Fitch wrote Let Us Prey: The Whiphid's Tale; more specifically, the tale of J'Quille.

A. C. Crispin
Ann C. Crispin is a science fiction author who is most famous within the Star Wars universe for her multiple works that are The Han Solo Trilogy. Skin Deep: The Fat Dancer's Tale is her short story that appears in Tales from Jabba's Palace.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes is a science fiction writer who entered the Star Wars universe with his short-story, Shaara and the Scarlacc: The Skiff Guard's Tale.

George Alec Effinger
George Alec Effinger was an American writer who won both the Nebula and Hugo awards for his novelette, "Schrödinger's Kitten" (1988). His only Star Wars work was The Great God Quay: The Tale of Barada and the Weequays.

Kenneth C. Flint
Kenneth C. Flint is a Star Wars writer who composed two short-stories for the Tales series. He is also the author of the canceled Heart of the Jedi novel. Old Friends: Ephant Mon's Tale is his work that was collected in Tales from Jabba's Palace.

Esther M. Friesner
Esther M. Friesner is a science fiction author who wrote That's Entertainment: The Tale of Salacious Crumb.

Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly is a prolific Star Wars author who wrote two of the three novels in the unofficially titled, Callista trilogy. She is also the author of several short-stories including Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef for Tales from Jabba's Palace.