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{{quote|"''Quite surprising. I've certainly never heard any gossip that Emperor Palpatine had a son by a three-eyed alien woman.''"|The series in a nutshell, courtesy of C-3PO}}
 
''[['''The Glove of Darth Vader]]''''' is the first installment of a series of [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novellas for younger readers written by Paul and Hollace Davids and published in the early 1990s. They are most remembered nowadays for their [[So Bad It's Good|questionable quality]], but occasional references to them still crop up in the modern EU, and they've been neatly fitted into the official EU timeline (with a little bit of retconning to make them fit better). The title of the first book has been adopted for the (untitled) cycle as a whole, which is also known by the names of ''Jedi Prince'' and ''Son of Palpatine''.
 
Books in the series include:
* ''[['''The Glove of Darth Vader]]''''' (1992)
* ''The Lost City of the Jedi'' (1992)
* ''Zorba the Hutt's Revenge'' (1992)
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* [[Big No]]: C-3PO gets one of these.
* [[Body Horror]]: What befalls Hissa on Duro.
* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: Whaladons (take a big fat guess as to which endangered Earth animals these stand in for in the book's [[Green Aesop]]<ref> [[Comically Missing the Point|Gorillas? It's Gorillas, isn't it?]] </ref>) and "braze" (brown haze, i.e. smog), among others.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Not quite, but the events of the books have been made a lot less significant to the overall ''[[Star Wars]]'' story than the writers probably intended. Also, the decision of Lucasfilm to cancel the series just as other, better received, EU novels (such as [[The Thrawn Trilogy|Zahn's trilogy]]) were getting big has been interpreted by some observers as a damage-limitation exercise.
** At one point it was pretty much treated as completely non-canon (some gaming sourcebooks aside), but current Lucasfilm policy seems to be that nothing is so contradictory to the rest of the EU that it can't be fixed with a big enough [[Retcon]].
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