The company in charge of Star Wars’ novels, Del Rey have just made a very interesting announcement about a Mace Windu book coming in summer 2024.

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This by itself is quite good news, since it’s not often we get new Mace content - however, this book is about to change the character forever, and probably in a very good and fun way.


So the book’s titled “Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss” and there’s no doubt that the much beloved Jedi Master will be the focus of the book. However, it also connects to someone very unexpected and is going to add tons of new information into canon. Let’s read through the description and we’ll break it down in a minute.

Jedi Master Mace Windu travels to a dangerous, remote planet on a mission that challenges even his deadly prowess-all to fulfill Qui-Gon's last request.

The Jedi are reeling from Qui-Gon Jinn's sudden death at the hands of a Sith. Jedi Master Mace Windu's feelings about Qui-Gon have always been complicated, and have not been made any simpler in death. While they often disagreed, Mace valued Qui-Gon's unique perspective, and their shared dedication to the Force made them allies. Without Qui-Gon and his unorthodox views, Mace feels out of balance.

While considering his fallen friend's legacy, Mace is surprised to receive a final message from Qui-Gon, marked to be delivered to Mace on the event of Qui-Gon's death. The message contains a last request: a plea to help the Outer Rim planet of Metagos.

Many years ago, a violent solar flare transformed the surface of the desert planet into a landscape of irradiated glass - as beautiful as it is dangerous. Now most of the surviving inhabitants live underground, where rival clans fight to control the planet's limited resources. As a young Jedi, Qui-Gon protected the Sa'ad farming clan from the planet's less scrupulous factions. The Sa'ad practice the art of dream-weaving, retaining their waking minds upon sleep in order to communicate and coexist with the wild creatures around them. Qui-Gon vowed to return if they ever required his aid, but now it falls to Mace to fulfill that promise. The Sa'ad's leader, KinShan Nightbird, has begged for the Jedi's help in freeing Megatos from the crime lords who threaten to eradicate her people's way of life.

Intent on fulfilling Qui-Gon's final wishes, Mace travels to Megatos and infiltrates the enemies of the Sa'ad. But as the Jedi Master investigates the intricate web of adversaries and allies, Mace finds himself pushed to the boundaries of the Jedi code, challenging his beliefs and his relationship to the Force itself.

First off I just have to point out that it’s very ironic that this announcement comes many months before the book is set to release, but still has slipped up a little by misspelling the name of the planet where the book’s set. It’s spelt twice as Megatos but they accidentally called it Metagos.

Just a silly little mistake, but getting into the big part of this announcement, it tells us that Qui Gon has not only set up a secret message which is only revealed to Mace upon his death, which that alone reveals that there may be something deeper to their friendship than we already know, maybe they have some experiences we’ll learn about in the future, but it also shows us a place and specific group of people that Qui-Gon had an until now unknown connection to, which could be the source of lots of interesting events and stories.

A famous ability Mace Windu had in Legends was Shatterpoint, the identification of fault lines within the force which could entirely change the outcome of an event by attacking or manipulating the shatterpoint. Although it’s been brought into canon, we haven’t learned much of it, so maybe we’ll see it used in this novel since it sounds like it’s quite an intense situation.

One of the most appreciated Legends novels, Shatterpoint, named after the ability, also gave us a look at the relationship between Mace and his padawan Depa Billaba. Although the storyline from Shatterpoint can’t be told given her status in Disney canon, we may still see a glimpse of their relationship and learn something new.

Personally, I’m really excited about this announcement, it might be the first time we’ve had a canon novel entirely focused on Mace - he had a dedicated comic series a while ago, which was quite interesting, and by the way, let me know if you want me to cover it in the comments below, but getting a full-length book about him has a lot of incredible potential.