Dan'l Danehy Oakes

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One of the authors who worked on the Tales from Jabba's Palace anthology project in 1995 through 1996 was the short story writer Dan'l Danehy Oakes, who says he is "too bright to work in a MacDonalds, but not bright enough to be a real scientist, your typical sci-fi writer" and "took refuge at an early age in a vivid fantasy life," as a result of being "physically unfit." The short story he contributed was approximately ten pages, titled "Shaara and the Sarlacc, the Skiff Guard's Tale" referring to the Nikto guard who is devoured by the Sarlacc in the movie Return of the Jedi.

Danehy-Oakes has published several other stories, including "The Wallet and Maudie," co-written with Alan Wexelblat, which was a first prize winner in the Writers of the Future competition^[1], and "The Deconstructed Barbarian," the first piece of original fiction to be published in the New York Review of Science Fiction.

[edit] Shaara and the Sarlacc

The plot of this short story is that the guard's sister is being chased by six "imps" or stormtroopers, because they think she is beautiful. She leads them all to the Sarlacc pit where they are devoured, but the point of the story is that the Sarlacc lets Shaara, the focus of the story, live. The story is being told by the Skiff Guard, and the audience is Boba Fett, who is about to be devoured himself. Other authors in this book, Tales from Jabba's Palace, were Kevin J. Anderson, Barbara Hambly, Esther M. Friesner, Kathy Tyers, Mark Budz and Marina Fitch, Timothy Zahn, William F. Wu, Kenneth C. Flint, Deborah Wheeler, John Gregory Betancourt, M. Shayne Bell, George Alec Effinger, Judith and Garfield Reeves- Stevens, Dave Wolverton, Daryl F. Mallett, Jennifer Roberson, J.D. Montgomery (aka Daniel Keys Moran) and A.C. Crispin. It was edited by Kevin J. Anderson. The Sarlacc story was the second shortest in the book, after Daryl F. Mallett's 6-page contribution.