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December 2008 |
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The following news items were posted
on Star Wars Books during December 2008:
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Book News: Released today:
Posted: 30th December
Released today in the US: Luke
Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (hardback novel from Del
Rey) by Matthew Stover. |
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Media News: Sam Witwer and Nick
Gillard interviewed:
Posted: 30th December
Affiliate EU Cantina
have interviewed The Force Unleashed's Secret Apprentice
himself, Sam Witwer. WARNING: The interview contains spoilers for The
Force Unleashed and can be read here.
Elsewhere, fellow affiliate
Lightsabre have published their interview with Nick Gillard,
fight and stunt coordinator for the prequel films. Visit Lightsabre
to read the interview - click on Interviews at the top of
their homepage, then click on Stars. |
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Comic News: Crash Course
available now from TFAW.com:
Posted: 26th December
(UPDATED: 30th December)
According to their own website, Dark Horse Comics' second
volume in their digest-sized graphic novels The Clone
Wars Quarterly series, Crash
Course, is now available from TFAW.com,
one week earlier than its expected release date of 31st December.
However, Amazon.com
are now advertising a release date of 7th January for this graphic
novel. It is expected to be released in the UK on 23rd January.
UPDATE: Comic book supplier Diamond
Comic Distributors have announced that Crash
Course will be available from 2nd Jan. 2009.
(Source: DiamondComics.com) |
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Comic News: Last issue of Vector
available next week:
Posted: 23rd December
(UPDATED: 30th December)
Dark Horse Comics' epic story Vector
will not be completed until next week according to comic book
supplier Diamond Comic Distributors. The final part, Legacy
#31, which was due to ship this week, will now not ship
until next week. Although this is a disappointment for those readers
following this epic story and who were expecting the final issue
this week, but another week is really not that long to wait.
(Source: Diamond
Comic Distributors, Inc.)
UPDATE: Comic
book supplier Diamond Comic Distributors have announced that Legacy
#31 will be available from 2nd January 2009.
(Source: DiamondComics.com) |
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Media News: Drew Karpyshyn and
John Jackson Miller interviewed:
Posted: 22nd December
Affiliate Lightsabre
have published their interview with Drew Karpyshyn, author of fans'
favourites Darth
Bane: Path of Destruction and Darth
Bane: Rule of Two. Visit Lightsabre
to read the interview - click on Interviews at the top of
their homepage, then click on Stars.
While IGN.com have interviewed John Jackson Miller, writer of
the Knights of
the Old Republic comic books. You can read their interview here.
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Book News: Released today:
Posted: 19th December
Released today in the UK: Rebellion
- Volume 3: Small Victories (graphic novel from Titan
Books) by Jeremy Barlow et al. |
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Media News: SWBooks.co.uk
interviews Matthew Stover:
Posted: 20th December
Later this month Luke
Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor will be published.
Written by Matthew Stover, who has already contributed three novels
and one short story to the Star Wars Expanded Universe, it will tell
the tale of the Alliance's efforts to stop Lord Shadowspawn and his
legions of shadow stormtroopers from resurrecting the Empire only
one year after the deaths of the Emperor and Darth Vader. Matthew's
last book, the novelisation of Episode
III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), was an international
best-seller.
SWBooks.co.uk are pleased that Matthew took time to
talk to us... read
the interview
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Comic News: New The Clone
Wars comic series from Dark Horse next summer:
Posted: 19th December
According to Henry Gilroy, writer for both The Clone Wars TV
series as well as Dark Horse Comics' comic book tie-in
series, there will be a new comic book series of The
Clone Wars from Dark Horse next summer (2009). Commenting
on Dark Horse Message Boards in response to comments
regarding a TV episode penned by Randy Stradley, Dark Horse
Comics' editor, Henry wrote "I'm putting elements of [Stradley's
story] into the next arc of The Clone Wars comic. Be on the
lookout for it come summer time".
(Source: Dark
Horse Message Boards via StarWarsTimeline.net)
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Book News: Blood Oath
delayed till December '09:
Posted: 18th December
(UPDATED 19th December)
LucasBooks' executive editor Sue Rostoni, writing on the Star
Wars Message Boards, stated that Elaine Cunningham's post-Invincible
novel featuring Zekk, Blood
Oath, has been pushed back from April to December 2009
because "the manuscript hasn't been delivered yet -- it just
got to be too late to make the deadline, so we moved it."
She adds "I feel badly because the story, as you know, takes
place before Outcast
so we wanted it to come out as close to Outcast
as possible... but it didn't happen".
(Source: Star
Wars Message Boards)
UPDATE: Sue
has updated her Release Schedule (US) for 2009-2011 and there are a
few notable changes. Karen Traviss' first Imperial Commando, 501st,
novel is moved back nearly two months from 4th August to 29th
September, but Joe Schreiber's horror story, Deathtroopers,
is brought forward by a week to 27th October. However, the fourth Fate
of the Jedi book by Aaron Allston slips from 30th December 2009
to 18th January 2010. Finally we can expect Karen Miller's last The
Clone Wars tie-in novel to be published in June 2010.
She also intimated at storylines for the second and third books in
the Fate
of the Jedi series, Omen and Abyss,
writing that "the second book in the Fate of the Jedi series
[Omen]
finds Luke and Ben in serious trouble. Well, pretty much everyone
is in serious trouble. And then there's that scene at the zoo...";
while in Abyss
"more trouble happens as well as some good times, and Ben
Skywalker enjoys a dinner date."
(Source: Sue
Rostoni's StarWars.com Blog) |
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Book News: Released today:
Posted: 18th December
Released today in the UK: The
Clone Wars: Wild Space (hardback from Century) by
Karen Miller. |
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Book News: Star Wars horror
novel titled:
Posted: 16th December
LucasBooks' executive editor Sue Rostoni has announced via
the Star Wars Message Boards that Joe Schrieber's horror
novel will be titled Deathtroopers. Previously set
between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, Sue
now says that this novel will be set prior to A New Hope. Deathtroopers
is slated for release in the US on 1st November 2009.
(Source: Star
Wars Message Boards)
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Comic News: Released today:
Posted: 17th December
Released today in the US : Legacy
- Volume 4: Alliance (comic from Dark Horse Comics)
by John Ostrander et al. |
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Book News: Cover's up for No
Prisoners:
Posted: 12th December
StarWars.com have posted the cover for The
Clone Wars: No Prisoners, the third The
Clone Wars tie-in novel. Written by Karen Traviss (Hard
Contact, Order
66, Sacrifice),
No
Prisoners is a tale of the Clone Wars featuring Captain Rex,
Ahsoka Tano and a certain Captain Pellaeon!
No
Prisoners is due to be released in May 2009 in trade
paperback from Del Rey in the US (at the moment, no date for its UK
release).
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Comic News: Star Wars returns
to Free Comic Book Day:
Posted: 10th December
As reported by Rebelscum.com, Dark Horse Comics will
be sponsoring a Star Wars: The Clone Wars comic tale for next
year's Free Comic Book Day (Saturday 2nd May 2009). This
special issue will feature the greatest heroes of The Clone Wars,
and judging by the cover, that includes Kit Fisto!
Full details at FreeComicBookDay.com.
(Source: via Rebelscum.com)
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Media News: Star Wars authors
shortlisted for Aussie awards:
Posted: 10th December
Two Star Wars authors have been shortlisted for the Aurealis
Awards 2008, the annual award that recognizes the
achievements of Australian science fiction,
fantasy and horror writers, Karen Miller (Wild
Space) and Sean Williams (The
Force Unleashed).
Previous Aurealis winner and Star Wars newcomer
Karen Miller has been shortlisted in the Best Fantasy Novel
category for her own novel The River Kingdom,
the second book in her Godspeaker saga.
While veteran Star Wars author Sean Williams, also a previous Aurealis
Award winner, has received no less than four
nominations in four categories, Best Science Fiction Novel
for Earth Ascendant, Best Young
Adult Novel for The Changeling, Best
Children's Novel for The Changeling
and The Dust Devils, and Best
Collection for Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean
Williams.
Winners will be announced at the Aurealis
Awards ceremony in Brisbane, Australia on 24th
January 2009.
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Comic News: Released today:
Posted: 10th December
Released today in the US and UK (import): The
Clone Wars #3 (comic from Dark Horse Comics) by Henry
Gilroy et al. |
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Media News: Matthew Stover
interviewed at BookSpotCentral:
Posted: 9th December
Matthew Stover, author of Traitor,
Shatterpoint,
the novelisation of Revenge
of the Sith, and the forthcoming Luke
Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, has been interviewed at
BookSpotCentral.com. In this interview Matthew discusses his
own work as well as his Star Wars novels.
You can read the interview here.
Luke Skywalker
and the Shadows of Mindor is due for release in hardback on
30th December in the US and in the New Year in the UK.
(Source: via TheForce.net) |
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Book News: Released today:
Posted: 9th December
Released today in the US: The
Clone Wars: Wild Space (trade paperback from Del Rey)
by Karen Miller and The
Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (hardcover boxset from Del
Rey) |
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Comic News: Preview Rise of the
Sith online at DarkHorse.com:
Posted: 8th December
There is a three
page preview of the next Omnibus
Edition, Rise
of the Sith, at DarkHorse.com. It will feature
reprints of Jedi
Council: Acts of War, Prelude
to Rebellion and Darth
Maul graphic novels as well as the two Qui-Gonn &
Obi-Wan comic stories, The
Aurorient Express and Last
Stand on Ord Mantell; and Aurra's
Song, a comic story, originally published in black and white
in Dark Horse Presents Annual 2000, but has been
coloured for its Omnibus
release.
Rise of the Sith
is due for release on 14th January in the US and one week later on
the 23rd in the UK.
(Source: via TheForce.net) |
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Media News: The Clone Wars
available on DVD in UK:
Posted: 8th December
The
Clone Wars movie is released on single-disc DVD and Blu-Ray
high-definition disc today in the UK...more |
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Book News: Encyclopedia will
not arrive in UK until Spring:
Posted: 6th December
The much anticipated The
Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, released in the US on
Tuesday 9th December, will not be released in the UK until 24th
April 2009. There's no official reason for the four month gap
between US and UK release dates from the Encyclopedia's
UK publisher, Titan
Books. It means that for UK fans unwilling to wait till April
will have to import their copies using various online shopping or
auction facilities. If you do decide to import it be wary of the
currency differences, savings off the RRP, delivery charges and
possible currency conversion charges on credit cards. To aid price
comparisons, the UK RRP is GBP75.00 which is equivalent to about
USD110 (the US RRP is USD125.00). Amazon.co.uk
are offering the UK edition for GBP48.75 on Pre-Order. While across
the Pond, Amazon.com
are charging USD75.00 which is equivalent to about GBP51.01, but
there will be additional delivery charges. |
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Book & Comic News: Released
today:
Posted: 4th December
Released today in the UK: Death
Star (paperback re-release from Arrow Books) by
Michael Reaves and Steve Perry and Star Wars Comic #2
from Titan Comics. |
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Gaming News: More downloadable
content for The Force Unleashed now available:
Posted: 4th December
Affiliate
EUCantina.net are reporting more DLC
available for the XBox 360 version of The
Force Unleashed via XBox Live Marketplace. Content includes: Jedi
Temple Theme Pack, Jedi
Temple Mission Pack and Character
Pack 2.
Full details at EUCantina.net. |
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Comic News: Comic stories for
March 2009 and beyond:
Posted: 4th December
StarWars.com have posted solicitations from Dark Horse
Comics for comics in March 2009 and graphic novels in May 2009.
Comic series Knights of the Old Republic and Legacy
both begin new story arcs in issues #39:
Dueling Amibitions and #34:
Storms, available 18th and 25th March respectively. There is
also confirmation of the third digest-sized graphic novel of the The
Clone Wars Quarterly series, The
Wind Raiders of Taloraan, written by Legacy's
John Ostrander and available from 27th May (US). Finally, collecting
issues #29 thru #35 from Knights of the Old Republic, Volume
6: Vindication graphic novel will be released one week
earlier on the 20th (US).
(Source: StarWars.com) |
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Book News: Jedi Quest as
audiobooks next Spring:
Posted: 2nd December
RandomHouse.com have listings for the first four Jedi
Quest books, Way of the Apprentice, The
Trail of the Jedi, The Dangerous Games
and The Master of Disguise, as
Audiobook Downloads. Read by veteran Star Wars audiobook reader
Jonathon Davis, these digital downloads are penned for release
beginning 24th March 2009 at $9.99 a download.
For those who missed Jude Watson's Jedi
Quest book series, the tales of Anakin's early training by
Obi-Wan Kenobi, this would be an ideal opportunity to acquaint
yourself with these stories.
As yet no details whether the other books in the Jedi
Quest series, or other book series such as Jedi
Apprentice or Last
of the Jedi, will be made available as Audiobook Downloads. |
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Book News: Rebel Force
#3 titled:
Posted: 1st December
No sooner than the first two Rebel Force titles, Target
and Hostage
are released (one month early), than the third in this new youth
series is discovered on Amazon.
Titled Renegade, little is known at the moment other than it
has a slated release date of 1st May 2009, although based on
previous releases from Scholastic, we may see it available in
April.
(Source: via StarWarsTimeline.com)
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Comic News: Dark Times
returns with free web comic next year:
Posted: 1st December
Randy Stradley, editor at Dark Horse Comics,
has updated their website with a teaser for a free online Star Wars
comic story next year as part of their MySpace Dark Horse
Presents (MDHP). On January 7th MDHP will
feature part one of a brand new Dark
Times story titled Blue Harvest written by Mick
Harrison and illustrated by Douglas Wheatley: Ever since the
events in Revenge of the Sith, Dass Jennir has been trying to find
his place in a galaxy where being a Jedi carries a death sentence.
Previously, he has made some questionable choices-which have cost
him his friends, and his belief in himself. Now, down to his last
Republic credit, Jennir must decide whether to cling to his Jedi
ideals and at the very least starve, or to accept an unsavory job
from the kind of people who ask no questions and keep no employment
records. If being a Jedi makes him an outlaw, can he be an outlaw
and still be a Jedi?
After online segments in January and February, the story will
jump to Dark Times #13 (April 22, 2009) for the start
of a five-issue arc.
(Source: DarkHorse.com)
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Comic News: Comic Book
Resources interview Vector co-author John Ostrander:
Posted: 1st December
Vector
contributing author John Ostrander has been talking to Comic Book
Resources (comicbookresources.com) about Vector
and the final chapter he is responsible for.
You can read the interview here.
(Source: via EUCantina.net)
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