Fantasy's End

Fanfiction
Title:	Fantasy's End
Author(s):	Carol Mularski
Date(s):	1983
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Genre(s):	gen
Fandom(s):	Star Wars
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Fantasy's End is a Star Wars story by Carol Mularski.

It was printed in Skywalker #6 and is part of the "Desert Seed Series.

Summary

"The newly formed Empire has begun to purge all record of the Jed;, but Kaili Lars , refuses to forget. Will her interest endanger her baby cousin Luke?"

Fan Comments

Another contribution well worth reading, although flawed, is Carol Mularski's "Fantasy's End." The reader is placed into the skin of Luke's cousin, nine-year-old Kaili, a 'middle' child with a passion for anything related to the Jedi during a 'holocaust' on Tatooine caused by the invasion of the Imperial Troops. Mularski's ending is a resolution of the conflict set up within the story, but she chose a small pop instead of the supernova expected. Wanda Lybarger's story, "Choice" is an example of an excellent premise imperfectly executed. Here, the problem lies within POV, which wanders aimlessly from character to character. It is a good story, as written. It would have been stronger if told from one POV (Leia's seems to be the obvious choice). Making this one change would have tightened the plot, increased the tension further, and intensified the mystery.

"Fantasy's End" is part of Carol Mularski's Desert Seed cycle. I enjoyed this more than I usually do Carol's stories. She has captured the relationships between siblings with a reality that is funny because it is so very true to life. Kaill fights with little brothers who are brats and older sisters who have "new" interests. Her fascination with her fantasy world of Jedi and great heroic deeds reminded me strongly of the importance I attached to my imaginary world when I was that age. And Owen and Beru are treated sympathetically: in particular Owen is not an ogre but a loving and protective father in a difficult time on a harsh world.

I liked Carol Mularski's "Fantasy's End" very much. The characters were real and the situation only too likely. I found it very easy to sympathise with Kaili and I particularly enjoyed the characterizations of Owen and Beru. Very nice.

It's good to see another Desert Seed story from Carol Mularski's "Fantasy's End" is good background on Kaili and how she came to be so thoroughly negative about the Force and about her dreams as an adult.

"Fantasy's End" was a disappointment. It started out giving some welcome additional characterization to Owen Lars and Beru, and some of the other children in the family, and it ended up reading like a story out of some teenage heartache novel. So one other member of the family dreamed of being a Jedi. So the big, bad Imperials came and Owen put his foot down and she chucked it all, and that ends that. So what? Beyond the girl's stupidity at every move (leaving a dangerous object for baby Luke, stealing supplies from the school that were easily detectable as missing, playing "Jedi" after her whole family has been threatened with destruction because of it...) she seemed to have nothing going for her as a character. There were welcome moments to this story...the glimpse of life on Tatooine as it really must be (of course glass blowing must be a major artform...with all that sand around...) and moments with baby Luke that were genuinely funny (kissing your cousin with a mouthful of sand) but otherwise, this story read on a younger level than the average Bobbsey Twins tale...

Carol Mularski's "Fantasy's End" tackled an interesting situation in portraying how the Empire could affect everyday life...The point of view skipped from child to adult a couple of times, and her Imperials, at least the woman, seemed a tad too nice, but the story worked for me. It boggles the mind to imagine the task facing the Empire when it wanted to eradicate all vibrant memory of Jedi from the galactic cultural conscience. Unlike in Poland, I don't imagine one can simply pull the galactic plug on the galactic comlink exchange.

"Fantasy's End": Again, I don't tend to like stories without the major three, but I have read enough about Kaili to know her almost as well. (I think that says a lot.) I enjoyed it. As usual, well thought out, well plotted and well done.

I also enjoyed "Fantasy's End" by Carol Mularski. Somehow, those kids are all so real to me. Wynn is like my kid sister, and even baby Luke really seems like Luke.