Book #7 of 2024: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi edited by Tom Hoeler Another batch of 40 stories to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a Star Wars movie, this one centered around the background characters and/or events of Episode VI, Return of the Jedi. Some of these entries …
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Book Review: Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher
Book #128 of 2022: Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher This new Star Wars novel is intended as a bridge into the sequel trilogy of films, which means it’s unfortunately saddled with fleshing out some of the stranger plot decisions introduced by The Rise of Skywalker. So Rey’s parents are — spoiler …
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Book Review: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
Book #291 of 2020: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the second Star Wars movie, this collection presents 40 new stories revisiting its timeline, in the form of either familiar scenes from the perspective of minor film characters or …
Book Review: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
Book #31 of 2018: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View edited by Elizabeth Schaefer In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie, this book presents 40 short stories retelling the events of that film from the perspective of various minor characters — from Jawas to stormtroopers to the thing …
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Book Review: Made to Kill by Adam Christopher
Book #20 of 2016: Made to Kill by Adam Christopher (Ray Electromatic Mysteries #1) Made to Kill stars a robot private eye, but it’s nowhere near as good an execution as A. Lee Martinez’s novel The Automatic Detective, my first exposure to that concept. This book never clearly establishes the rules of its world, which …
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