A Glance Into The Past: Valhalla Returns

You might remember my article on Han Solo and the Lost Hungarian Legacy, which explained a whole lot about Valhalla Páholy’s Star Wars novels. Now, after some interesting searching, I have found that only did Valhalla publish Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, Brian Daley’s Han Solo trilogy (along with the omnibus), and a four-book sequel series, they also reprinted many of Bantam Spectra’s classic 1990’s novels, and the novelizations of the original trilogy. Including the aforementioned 9 novels, they produced an additional 14 novels. Altogether, the 23 novels are:

·         A Birodalom örökösei (The Thrawn Trilogy Book 1 – Heir to the Empire)

·         Sötét erők ébredése (The Thrawn Trilogy Book 2 – Dark Force Rising)

·         0: Erőpróba (Splinter of the Mind’s Eye)

·         1: Han Solo hadjárata (Han Solo at Star’s End)

·         2: Han Solo bosszúja (Han Solo’s Revenge)

·         3: Han Solo küldetése (Han Solo and the Lost Legacy)

·         4: Han Solo nomádjai (Han Solo at Doomsday’s Edge)

·         5: Han Solo a birodalmi ügynök (Han Solo’s Gambit)

·         Csillagok háborúja (A New Hope)

·         A Birodalom visszavág (The Empire Strikes Back)

·         A Jedi visszatér (Return of the Jedi)

·         Az utolsó parancs (The Thrawn Trilogy Book 3 – The Last Command)

·         6: Han Solo és a fejvadászok (Han Solo and the Bounty Hunters)

·         7: Han Solo háborúja (Han Solo’s War)

·         1-3: Han Solo legendája (The Han Solo Adventures)

·         Különbéke (The Truce at Bakura)

·         Szökevények (The Courtship of Princess Leia)

·         A koréliai rajtaütés (The Corellian Trilogy Book 1 – Ambush at Corellia)

·         Új Rend (The Jedi Academy Trilogy Book 1 – Jedi Search)

·         Sötét oldal (The Jedi Academy Trilogy Book 2 – Dark Apprentice)

·         Az Erő bajnokai (The Jedi Academy Trilogy Book 3 – Champions of the Force)

·         Mos Eisley mesék (Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina)

·         Fekete kard (The Black Fleet Crisis Book 1 – Before the Storm)

I still am not sure if these novels are even partially official, despite the fact that the actual interior content has been approved. Either way, Valhalla Páholy (translating as “Valhalla Lodge” in English) sure tried to make the novels seem official, going so far as to using the name of the father of Carrie Fisher (who played Princess Leia), Ed Fisher, as a pseudonym for András Gáspár, who apparently “translated Pendragon Books’ (an earlier name of Valhalla) Han Solo at Doomsday’s Edge into the Hungarian language.” The trend of using the real author’s name as the Hungarian translator carried on through the fake Solo novels, when Nyúlzi Zsolt (or Zsolt Nyúlzi), whose pseudonym was Dale Avery, translated all of, well, erm, Dale Avery’s novels from English to Hungarian.

P.S. If you want to see the list of these fake books, along with the covers, search for the article “Valhalla Páholy Star Wars könyvei” on Kaminopedia, which is the Hungarian counterpart to Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki, or just go straight to the link below:

https://starwars.fandom.com/hu/wiki/Valhalla_P%C3%A1holy_Star_Wars_k%C3%B6nyvei

Thank you for reading, and see you next time on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!