Journey To Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Chuck Wendig) Books in Order

Under the Journey to Star Wars banner, Chuck Wendig's main contribution is the Aftermath trilogy, a set of canon novels that explore the messy stretch between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. These books are not about a clean victory lap after Endor. They are about what happens when an empire falls, but its people, weapons, loyalties, and worst habits are still very much alive.

This series lives in the mess after the celebration.

The core cast is a new crew of survivors, hustlers, soldiers, and former Imperials, especially pilot Norra Wexley and the odd little team that gathers around her. They move through a galaxy where the New Republic is trying to become a real government while the Imperial remnant keeps shifting shape in the shadows. Familiar figures like Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca appear, but the heartbeat of the trilogy is in the new characters who have to do the unglamorous work of living through history instead of just cheering it on.

What ties the books together is the slow move toward the Battle of Jakku and the political ground that will eventually produce the world of The Force Awakens. Wendig is interested in aftermath in the literal sense, what is broken, who profits from the chaos, and how ordinary people keep going while bigger powers decide what the next era will be called.

If you want Star Wars with military action, political cleanup, and a clear bridge between trilogies, this is the appeal. The books are broad, fast-moving, and filled with the feeling that the galaxy is changing under everyone's feet, even when nobody can yet see what is coming next.