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…
Amazon will be offering a free digital sampler of the upcoming Del Rey Star Wars novels (A New Dawn, Tarkin, Heir to the Jedi and Lords of the Sith) on the 15th of July, Ordinarily this would be a Comic-Con exclusive, but this year in San Diego they’re offering a complete copy of A New…
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…
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…
From Daisy Ridley News (via Making Star Wars) comes this tweet: Apparently the extra was Polish, so can we assume they meant stormtroopers? Keep in mind the following: an earlier report of explosions being set up, with the same report making mention of a market, later confirmed in the Force for Change video there have…
Over at Star Wars Union there’s a report from a German Hasbro presentation for retailers outlining Lucasfilm’s plans for Star Wars into 2020: Fall 2014: Rebels 2015: Episode VII 2016: Boba Fett 2017: Episode VIII 2018: Solo 2019: Episode IX 2020: Red Five Very interesting indeed. The Boba Fett and Solo spinoffs are not particularly surprising,…
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…
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