Tarkin hits shelves today!

Star Wars: Tarkin, the second novel in the new Star Wars canon, will be released today. Written by Star Wars expanded universe veteran James Luceno, the novel is set five years after Revenge of the Sith and three years before A New Dawn, and was written with knowledge of the events to be depicted in…

The world of Rebels, plus a new Tarkin blurb!

First up, here’s a new blurb we’ve spotted for James Luceno’s Tarkin: Grand Moff Tarkin—the man who controlled the Death Star and ordered the destruction of Alderaan. The man who even the dreaded Darth Vader obeyed. At long last, as the true story of the Star Wars galaxy continues to unfold, Tarkin’s tale now comes…

More New Dawn and Tarkin details

On today’s RebelForce Radio episode, Del Rey editor Erich Schoeneweiss dropped a couple of details regarding both John Jackson Miller’s A New Dawn and James Luceno’s Tarkin. On the matter of A New Dawn, apparently the time-frame for the novel will be roughly five to seven years before Rebels. That means it’ll be almost exactly in the middle of…

Brief insight into Luceno’s Tarkin novel

Del Rey’s Star Wars Facebook page has posted a glimpse of what to expect from James Luceno’s upcoming novel Tarkin: …James Luceno beautifully amalgamates the classic trilogy incarnations of Vader and the Emperor with their prequel era counterparts: The Emperor exhibits the reptilian charm of Chancellor Palpatine, and while Vader feels like Vader, there are…