title: Tales from Jabba's Palace (Star Wars) (Book 2)
author:  Kevin J. Anderson 
description: One of the more prolific--and proficient--<i>Star Wars</i> authors, Kevin J. Anderson, edits and contributes to this anthology of ... well, tales from Jabba's palace. Each of the 19 short tales focuses on a different personality, from the rancor keeper to Salacious Crumb, putting faces and facts on the internecine intrigue swirling around everyone's favorite Huttese crime lord. (As it turns out, you <i>can</i> find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley.) Find out how Bib Fortuna hoped to overthrow Jabba, or hear the philosophical ramblings of a not-so-bright teenage skiff guard. Or, perhaps best, learn how Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon. Style, mood, and quality vary by author, but these <i>Tales</i> are mostly funny and mostly well done, including those by Anderson, <i>Star Trek</i> author A.C. Crispin, Nebula-winner George Alec Effinger, and Hugo-winner Timothy Zahn. <i>--Paul Hughes</i>
zlib_text: Star Wars TALES FROM JABBA'S PALACE
  
  by
  
  Kevin J. Anderson
  
  TALES FROM JABBA'S PALACE
  
  BANTAM New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland
  
  To SUE ROSTONI who has been more helpful than any of Jabba's minions could
  have ever been, offering suggestions, troubleshooting obstacles, and
  navigating me through a forest of details that would have given even a Hutt a
  headache!
  
  **Acknowledgements**
  
  Thanks go to Lucy Wilson for being so enthusiastic about the idea of
  anthologies in the first place, Tom Dupree for his efforts at Bantam Books,
  and Bill Smith at West End Games for providing the foundations for so, many of
  these stories. And, as always, Rebecca Moesta Anderson, for putting up with me
  at times when she probably should have just fed me to the rancor.
  
  October 1994
  
  Contents
  
  **Introduction**
  
   **A Boy and His Monster:**
  
  The Rancor Keeper's Tale
  
  Kevin J. Anderson
  
  Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef
  
  Barbara Hambly
  
  That's Entertainment:
  
  The Tale of Salacious Crumb
  
  Esther M. Fri