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It feels like there are new Star Wars book covers announced all the time, since often titles are getting variant covers in addition to the standard one. Some of them are disappointing, some are fine, and some are great. But a variant cover for the upcoming High Republic novel, The Fallen Star, was recently released, [...]
Late last week, the news broke that Hayden Christensen will be returning to the iconic role of Anakin Skywalker for the upcoming Ahsoka series. Given that the series is set after the events of Return of the Jedi, it seems likely that we may be seeing Anakin's Force ghost talk with his former padawan. Also [...]
A new Star Wars novel was recently released, based off of an episode of Star Wars Visions: Ronin, written by Emma Mieko Candon. The book stars the mysterious former Sith known as "the Ronin," who was the central figure of the episode "The Duel" of Visions. The book expands on that encounter and tells a [...]
StarWars.com today announced some news that has me REALLY excited, as a series of book announcements were made for what is coming in 2022, including a book about Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian as well as another one about Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. In all, four books were announced. Brotherhood, a story about Obi-Wan [...]
The Star Wars and Lucasfilm communities today are mourning the death of Jonathan "J.W." Rinzler, the supremely talented and incredibly influential author behind many behind-the-scenes books. Rinzler died on July 28 after an eleven-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 58. Rinzler was a longtime executive editor at Lucasfilm and prolific author, writing many books [...]
The third wave of projects from The High Republic era have been announced! The projects will release in January 2022 and will conclude Phase I of the storytelling initiative. At a panel held for Comic-Con@Home 2021, host Krystina Arielle talked with High Republic authors Cavan Scott, Daniel José Older, Justina Ireland, Charles Soule, and Claudia [...]
The second wave of The High Republic books are underway, headlined by the brilliant and devastating novel The Rising Storm, written by Cavan Scott, that serves as the headliner to this wave of storytelling. That book tells of the Republic Fair, hosted on Valo and meant to serve as a display of the Republic's resolve, [...]
The next wave of books from The High Republic era were recently released, and I've just got to say... WOW. The most prominent novel of the group is The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott, and that's the one we'll be looking at today (we'll get to the others soon as well). And though there are [...]
So much of Star Wars storytelling throughout the years has happened in books. That has continued with the new canon, with plenty of fantastic content already released and more on the way, but we also shouldn't ignore that there were plenty of great stories told in Legends material as well. And soon, you'll be able [...]
Wave one of The High Republic era of Star Wars storytelling began earlier this year, and the catalyst for these stories was the Great Hyperspace Disaster. So with wave two coming soon, what's going to be the main storytelling impetus? I figured that the entirety of phase one (which stretches into next year) would mainly [...]
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