Tales from Jabba’s Palace is the second anthology of short stories in the thematic Tales series. As with the first and third installments to the series, Tales from Jabba’s Palace gives background stories of some of the minor characters glimpsed in the original trilogy. This specific anthology covers stories of the characters that were within Jabba’s Palace during the events of Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
Tales from Jabba’s Palace contains nineteen original short stories edited by Kevin J. Anderson and written by twenty-one different authors with cover art by Stephen Youll. The stories take place beginning around 0 BBY. However, all the short stories within the anthology, at some point, narrate certain events that came to pass during 4 ABY.
Jabba Desilijic Tiure, or more commonly, Jabba the Hutt, was a Hutt crime lord who abode in an ancient palace on the edge of the northern Dune Sea on the Outer Rim planet of Tatooine. Many individuals were drawn to Jabba’s palace due to his great wealth and power. Some of those characters came to indulge in Jabba’s might and fortune, others to steal it. Still others, whether by good intention or not, were swept up in the whirlwind of plots and dealings that surrounded the Bloated One. The stories of all such characters are recorded within Tales from Jabba’s Palace.