One Thousand Levels Down by Alexander Freed

One Thousand Levels Down Reviews

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  Jim C

  This is a short story that takes place immediately after A New Hope. In this one we follow two children whose home planet is Alderaan and living on Coruscant. The Empire are rounding up residents of Alderaan after the Death Star blew up Alderaan.
  
  Going into these short stories I really do no expect much. I loved the idea of this book. The struggle to survive while being on the run from The Empire as The Empire believes anyone from that planet are war criminals. I like it when science fiction interprets history. And it makes perfect sense this would be the next course of action in the overall story arc. The problem was that this course of action deserved longer than a short story. I didn't feel connected to the children. And the struggle seemed to be too quick of a pace. This really needed to be at least a novella especially considering the topic.
  
  This story is about the message and how common like people unite against a larger threat. I can get behind the message. It is just too bad that this message was relegated to a short story. I would have loved to have the characters, the struggle, and the message to be fleshed out more in a longer story. It is an okay read that really deserved a chance to be more valuable contributor to the overall story arc.
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  Richard Eyres

  Short story that was in Issue 151 of Star Wars Insider. Tells the story of a couple of Alderaan children escaping the 'relocation' from the government in the aftermath of the destruction of Alderaan. It takes place on Coruscant over a number of different levels. Provides a little insight in what it was like after the destruction and a better glimpse of the levels.
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  Julie

  Alexander Freed did a nice job with this short story and that's not surprising, considering how much he won me over with Battlefront: Twilight Company (although I read that later). It's a good little vignette about the lower levels of Coruscant and finding family among strangers.
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  Ahdom

  I thought this was a pretty cool refugee story set on Coruscant. There are so many stories to tell in Star Wars and these are a reminder that they do not have to be a long story for them to help fill out the galaxy in canon.
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  Ekenedilichukwu Ikegwuani

  a good look at how some of the larger galactic events affect even the most unimportant of people
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  Joss

  Touching short story. Gives an interesting feeling of Coruscant away from the surface, or the relatively more infamous level 1313.
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  Mayumi

  Anandra e Santigo perdem toda sua família, são perseguidos pelo Império por serem descendentes de Alderaan, e estão tentando sobreviver. Alexander Freed nos leva pela história desses dois de uma maneira bastante emotiva. Vamos nos envolvendo genuinamente em suas agruras e nosso grau de desespero cresce até se igualar ao deles. Apesar de não demonstrarem desespero, percebemos no último parágrafo que é exatamente isso que os envolveu durante toda a história.
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  Anandra and Santigo lose their whole family, are persecuted by the Empire for being descendants of Alderaan, and are trying to survive. Alexander Freed takes us through their story very emotionally. We gradually become more involved on their hardships and our degree of despair grows to match their own. Even though they don't show it, we realize on the last paragraph that that is exactly what was defining their story.