At Dragon*Con today, I attended a panel today of Star Wars Expanded Universe authors talking about the journey of heroes in the Star Wars saga. Timothy Zahn (whom I consider to be the father of the modern Star Wars universe as seen in the novels) was main guest, followed by Alan Dean Foster and Kevin J. Anderson (whom I consider to be the death of the modern Star Wars universe for a long time.)
I posted my opinions about the panel over at the Examiner’s website. Feel free to read the rest over there.