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Book Review – Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad by Christie Golden

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad… With Star Wars Battlefront II hitting consoles this fall, Christie Golden introduces fans to Inferno Squad, a highly trained special ops group sent on difficult assignments to thwart rebels and protect the Empire’s secrets. Golden writes a compelling story with interesting characters and doesn’t deliver the […]

Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi books revealed at Comic-Con

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Yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con, Lucasfilm announced a host of new Star Wars books, novels, activity books and more set for release this year as part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi publishing initiative. We’ve posted a selection of the covers below, and head on over to the official Star Wars site […]

George R.R. Martin thinks we might get one or two new Westeros books in 2018

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If you were hoping to see The Winds of Winter, the latest chapter of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy saga A Song of Ice And Fire, hitting bookstores this year, then the author has some bad news for you in his LiveJournal, revealing that he’s still “months away” from completing the novel, but expects to […]

Boom! announces Big Trouble in Little China: Big Trouble in Merrie Olde England

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Boom! Studios has announced that Jack Burton will be heading across the Pond this December with the release of Big Trouble in Little China Illustrated Novel: Big Trouble in Merrie Olde England from writer Matthew J. Elliott (Big Trouble in Little China Illustrated Novel: Big Trouble in Mother Russia) and illustrator Jonas Scharf (War for the Planet […]

Andy Weir’s Artemis picked up by 20th Century Fox

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Andy Weir, the author of The Martian, has a new book coming out which had already been acquired by Fox and New Regency to adapt to film. Titled Artemis, is is described as a near-future sci-fi thriller about a young woman who becomes entangled in a conspiracy on Artemis, the only colony on the moon. Simon Kinberg and […]

Lucasfilm announces Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View anthology

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Lucasfilm has announced that it is teaming up with Del Rey Books to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Star Wars saga with the new anthology book Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, which will feature 40 stories from over 40 different authors – each told from the perspective of a background character […]

Excerpt from Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: Thrawn novel released online

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Longtime fans of the old Star Wars Expanded Universe, now known as Legends, received a great gift when fan-favourite villain Grand Admiral Thrawn was brought into actual canon through his role in the Star Wars Rebels television series, voiced by House of Cards‘ Lars Mikkelsen. Timothy Zahn, the author who created him, has been working on Star Wars: Thrawn,a […]

The fate of Jar Jar Binks revealed in Star Wars: Aftermath – Empire’s End

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Tuesday sees the release of  the third and final chapter of Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: Aftermath book trilogy, which serves as a bridge between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, and Mashable is reporting that the novel will reveal the fate of one of the most reviled characters from the galaxy far, […]

Book Review – Navigators of Dune

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Villordsutch reviews Navigators of Dune… Navigators of Dune is the third book in the Great Schools trilogy from Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the previous being Mentats of Dune.  Finally, in this book all the threads that have been floating in the Universe, from Venport’s monopoly of both Spice and the Navigators, the fanatical Manford […]