Galaxy of Fear: The Hunger

Galaxy of Fear: The Hunger is the twelfth and final book in the young readers Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear series.

Publisher's summary

A survey team crash-lands on an unknown planet. The planet is dark, and its fetid swamps are filled with flesh-eating flowers, fearsome swamp slugs, and deadly dragonsnakes. No one hears the survey team's distress signals. They are stranded.

Thirty years later, Zak and Tash Arranda and their uncle Hoole, with Boba Fett in hot pursuit, land on the planet. Descendants of the survey team—half-starved and crazed with strange fevers—are still alive. They call themselves the Children, and how they have survived is a mystery. Does the strange creature named Yoda have the answer?

Plot summary

Evading pursuit by Imperial bounty hunters, Hoole, Tash, and Zak hitch a ride with a smuggler crew led by Platt Okeefe to an uncharted planet where they can lie low. That world, Dagobah, is fraught with natural dangers – but it's the descendants of shipwrecked explorers who are the most unsettling. The small colony of Children – all gaunt adults – have turned to cannibalism, and they begin feasting on the smuggling crew. Compounding this danger, bounty hunter Boba Fett has tracked the Arrandas and Hoole to the swamp planet. With the help of the mysterious Yoda, the off-worlders escape Dagobah along with the rehabilitating Children.

Continuity

The Arrandas' adventures with Uncle Hoole were described as beginning “over a year ago,” which suggests that this book took place at least eighteen months after the Battle of Yavin. But the epilogue had Vader contacting Boba Fett to pursue the Millennium Falcon. This was too early to be the assignment seen in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), which took place in 3 ABY.^[1]