Today, Star Wars made a number of exciting book announcements related to The Mandalorian, which are the first such books to be released alongside the hit show. There were a number of books unveiled, but a couple of the highlights that really stood out to me included The Art of The Mandalorian (Season One) by [...]
Today we got a treat, as the first chapter of Charles Soule's Light of the Jedi was released, via IGN! The book marks the very beginning of the massive Star Wars publishing initiative exploring the High Republic. It's very much anticipated, but the release of the book was pushed back to January 5, 2021, as [...]
Some exciting Star Wars book news was announced today, as it was revealed that From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back will release November 10, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the beloved film! https://twitter.com/DelReyStarWars/status/1271227381047537664 The format will be very just like the previous From a Certain Point of View book, which was [...]
Although the release of The High Republic has been delayed until January 2021, another highly-anticipated Star Wars book series will be released earlier than expected. Recently it was announced that book one of Timothy Zahn's Thrawn: Ascendancy trilogy, Chaos Rising, will release on September 1, 2020! The book was originally scheduled to be released on [...]
As a result of general marketplace delays stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and the related fallout, the launch of the new era of Star Wars storytelling, The High Republic, has been delayed. Originally set to launch this August, it will now launch in January of 2021. On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, both Light of the [...]
With the Skywalker Saga and The Clone Wars both having recently wrapped up, it feels in many ways like the first chapter of the Disney Star Wars era has concluded. And while there's a cynical group of fans who will ridicule the era, it has been the golden era of Star Wars, with an incredibly [...]
As we continue to reflect on the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, I think there's a cool little tidbit included in the book From a Certain Point of View, which was released in 2017 as a tribute to the anniversary of A New Hope. Some of the (many) great moments in Empire come [...]
The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was released recently, written as always by Phil Szostak, and as has been the fashion with these very interesting books, it begins by looking at the end of the previous film. This is done to prevent spoilers from leaking, and so this book begins by looking [...]
One of the most significant new characters introduced in The Rise of Skywalker was Allegiant General Pryde, a brand new officer in the First Order. The film pits Pryde against General Hux, while also making it clear that Pryde outranked Hux in the First Order hierarchy. But after Supreme Leader Kylo Ren turned back to [...]
One of the very interesting aspects of The Rise of Skywalker novelization, written by Rae Carson, was how it explained further Palpatine's return. I'll be writing about this more in-depth soon, but today I want to focus on this aspect of it: Darth Plagueis's secret to immortality was finally revealed! But first, let me ask [...]
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