This year is the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, a film that continues to stand out in the saga as perhaps the best of the best, widely considered to be the greatest of all Star Wars films. There has been a lot of celebration, and that continued with the recent release of From [...]
*** Be warned that SPOILERS ARE AHEAD for season two of The Mandalorian, so if you haven’t watched this episode, don’t read this article. Trust me, you want to go into this one without spoilers. *** Earlier this year, it was reported that Timothy Olyphant would play Cobb Vanth in the second season of The [...]
Ever since Ben Kenobi in A New Hope introduced us to the lightsaber, we've been hooked. "This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight," he tells Luke Skywalker. "Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age." In the decades since, we have seen tons of different lightsabers, [...]
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, next month we will be getting a collection of short stories from Del Rey like we did with A New Hope, as From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back releases on November 10! I absolutely loved the last one, and so [...]
Recently, an anthology book honoring The Clone Wars was released, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark! This book features eleven different stories by eleven different authors, with most of them re-telling stories from the show from different points of view. One of the stories is a new one, however, and is [...]
In The Rise of Skywalker, it was revealed that Poe Dameron used to be a smuggler, with the Spice Runners of Kijimi. This of course was a brand new tidbit that we'd never heard hinted at for the hero, and so that created some questions about that background and how it fit with what we [...]
On September 1, book one of a brand new Thrawn trilogy will be released! Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising, written by Timothy Zahn, is a prequel to the previous Thrawn trilogy and explores Mitth'raw'nuruodo before he joined the Empire, when he was a Captain in the Chiss Ascendancy. We previously got an excerpt from the prologue [...]
Recently at a Comic-Con@Home livestream, a few exciting new Star Wars books were announced! You can read about all of the interesting tidbits and reveals from the panel here, but there were two books in particular that stood out to me. The first is The Lightsaber Collection, written by Daniel Wallace. This reference book will [...]
This week, Star Wars announced the full cast for the upcoming Doctor Aphra audiobook, Doctor Aphra: An Original Audiobook, written by Sarah Kuhn. The audiobook will release on July 21 with a full cast, headlined by Emily Woo Zeller as Aphra. But the cast also includes Jonathan Davis as Boba Fett, Sean Patrick Hopkins as [...]
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 [...]
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