Star Wars X-Wing Fans Finally Get Full Isard's Revenge, Adumar Audiobooks
Wedge Antilles has about 24 more hours to talk to you. Please keep your hands inside the cockpit.
Two of the best Star Wars Legends books ever written just got the audiobooks they deserved all along. Isard's Revenge by Michael A. Stackpole and Starfighters of Adumar by Aaron Allston both came out today, November 10, as new recordings from Random House Audio, according to Jedi News.
Both novels first came out in 1999, and they close out the original nine-book X-Wing run. If you have been working through the new recordings one book at a time, the wait for the final two installments is officially over.
What are the new X-Wing audiobooks about?
In Isard's Revenge, Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron have to team up with Ysanne Isard, the former head of Imperial Intelligence. She offers to help them rescue captured pilots from Admiral Krennel's prison camp, but Wedge is pretty sure she plans to betray them, per Penguin Random House.
Starfighters of Adumar sends Wedge and a group of pilots on a diplomatic mission to Adumar, a world that worships fighter pilots. The New Republic and the Empire both want Adumar on their side, so the mission quickly turns into duels, assassins and a rogue agent from the Republic's own side.
How long are the new recordings?
Penguin Random House lists the new Isard's Revenge at 13 hours and 10 minutes. The audiobook that came out in 2007 was only 3 hours long, so fans are getting more than four times as much story this time.
Starfighters of Adumar runs 10 hours and 51 minutes and is unabridged, with Marc Thompson narrating, according to the Audiobooks.com listing. Thompson has been the voice of these new X-Wing recordings for years, and he does a great Wedge.
Why do these audiobooks matter to Star Wars fans?
For a long time, the only way to hear most of these books was in short, cut-down versions. Random House started fixing that with full recordings of Rogue Squadron and Wedge's Gamble, both read by Thompson, as Dork Side of the Force noted back in 2022.
The publisher now sells the books as two series. Isard's Revenge is book five of Rogue Squadron, and Starfighters of Adumar is book four of Wraith Squadron. That split makes it a little easier for new listeners to figure out exactly where each story fits in the timeline.
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My read is that Adumar is the most fun book in the whole series, and hearing Thompson voice it should make it even better. It's a goofy, clever story about famous pilots who are treated like celebrities. (Wedge's fan club on Adumar is honestly more intense than ours.)
Which X-Wing book is your favorite? Tell us in the comments.
