19th October 2004, 12:48 PM
They were the first modern EU fiction, and they might still be the best... and unlike most of the EU it's actually been used a lot. Mara Jade is a major EU book character, for instance, and in the realm of videogames Thrawn shows up in TIE Fighter (including in the introduction) and a bunch of stuff, including Mara Jade and Ysalamiris, are in Mysteries of the Sith... none of the other EU serieses have as much recognition. And, I'd say, for good reason... that one's still likely the best...