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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} {{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) Line 12: * ''Prophets of the Dark Side'' (1993) ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== The series includes examples of: ===~~ * [[And That's Terrible]]: "I bid you Dark Greetings," anyone? "I grant you my Dark Blessing."? They really wanted us to know that they knew the Empire was evil. And apparently even the Empire wanted the Empire to know that the Empire was evil. * [[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 ~~Dis Continuity~~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]]. * In particular, according to an article in issue 103 (October 1994) of the ''Polyhedron'' [[Tabletop RPG]] magazine (albeit unlicensed), the series was actually a youngling-friendly retelling of those events by Leia Organa Solo to her children. Line 39 ⟶ 38: {{reflist}} [[Category:Star Wars Expanded Universe (Franchise)]]▼ [[Category:The Glove of Darth Vader]] ▲[[Category:Star Wars Expanded Universe ~~(Franchise)~~]] [[Category:Star Wars novels]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Glove of Darth Vader, The}}