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September 2009 |
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The following news items were posted
on Star Wars Books during September 2009:
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Book News: Alex Irvine hints at
Nomi Sunrider novel:
Posted: 30th September
In a recent interview with Patrick of the blog Stomping
on Yeti ,
author Alex Irvine, currently writing a as yet untitled Nomi
Sunrider novel due for release in February 2011, hinted at the
book's content: The story develops the relationship between Nomi
and Vima Sunrider and involves a resurgent threat from Sith and
Mandalorian forces. Plus I introduce a new character that I’m
really enjoying, a sort of interstellar scavenger who runs across
some artifacts that are a little more than he can handle.
You can read the full interview here . |
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Book News: Paul S. Kemp to pen
second Star Wars novel:
Posted: 28th September
(UPDATED: 29th September)
Writing on his own blog ,
Paul S. Kemp author of the forthcoming Crosscurrent
novel, has announced that he is to write a second Star Wars novel: I
am allowed to announce that I'll be writing another novel in the
Star Wars EU, the story for which will build off of the events of Crosscurrent.
Unfortunately, I can't speak at all to the plot, characters, etc.
Sorry about that. Still, I hope you're as excited as I am.
(Source: Paul
S. Kemp
via ClubJade.net )
UPDATE:
Writing on StarWars.com's Message Boards, Sue Rostoni,
LucasBooks' Executive Editor, has confirmed that Paul S. Kemp is
indeed writing a Crosscurrent
sequel and it is scheduled for a paperback release in June 2011. It
will replace Karen Traviss's cancelled Boba Fett novel.
(Source: StarWars.com's
Message Boards
& Sue
Rostoni's Blog )
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Book News: Essential Atlas
authors interviewed:
Posted: 29th September
Affiliate EUCantina.net
have published their interview with The
Essential Atlas authors Jason Fry and Daniel Wallace as well
as contributing artist Chris Trevas. You can read their interview here .
Plus affiliate Lightsabre.co.uk
have also published their interview with Daniel Wallace. To read
this interview visit Lightsabre.co.uk
and click on Interviews, then on Star Interviews. |
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Book News: Sansweet discusses 1,000
Collectibles:
Posted: 29th September
StarWars.com have published an interview with Stephen
Sansweet, co-author of the forthcoming 1,000
Collectibles, in which he answers a few questions on this
new reference title and shares a dozen full-page spreads from the
book. You can read the interview here . |
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Book News: New The Clone Wars
UK releases:
Posted: 29th September
Now shipping in the UK are the paperback release of The
Clone Wars novelisation by Karen Traviss; Breakout
Squad by Ryder Windham, the first title in the new Secret
Missions youth novel series; Ambush,
a graphic novel adaptation of the TV episode for younger readers;
and Press
Out'n'Build, an activity book for young people. |
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Media News: The Clone Wars
Season 2 on Sky Movies Premier:
Posted: 29th September
Sky Movies Premier have announced that they will be screening the
second season of The Clone Wars animated series from Saturday
October 24th (5.30pm) in the UK.
(Source: via JediNews.co.uk ) |
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Comic News: The Old Republic
- Threat of Peace #16 now online:
Posted: 26th September
The sixteenth issue of Threat of Peace, the
introductory online comic for the forthcoming MMO video game Star
Wars: The Old Republic, is available to read online .
The sixteenth issue of Threat of Peace sees Braden’s vengeance
achieved against the Republic Commander who wounded him on Dantooine.
Meanwhile, even as Jedi Grand Master Zym visits the ruins of the
Jedi Temple on Coruscant to learn more about the attack on the
Envoy, a bomb rips through the Senate Tower...
(Source: swtor.com ) |
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Media News: Two short stories
online for Hyperspace members:
Posted: 24th September
StarWars.com have published online for Hyperspace
members two short stories first published in Star Wars
Adventure Journal in the mid-1990s. They are The
Longest Fall by Patricia A. Jackson (reprinted in Tales
from The New Republic) and Betrayal
by Knight by Patricia A. Jackson & Charlene Newcomb.
Both online stories can be accessed via their respective entries on Star
Wars Books or via StarWars.com
short story index . |
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Comic News: Invasion #4
& #0 previewed:
Posted: 22nd September
Dark Horse Comics have released three-page previews for the fourth
and one-shot (#0)
issues of Invasion.
You can read #4 here
and #0 here . |
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Comic News: The Old Republic
- Threat of Peace #15 now online:
Posted: 22nd September
The fifteenth issue of Threat of Peace, the
introductory online comic for the forthcoming MMO video game Star
Wars: The Old Republic, is available to read online .
The fifteenth issue of Threat of Peace takes us to the chaotic
conflict on Balmorra where Republic military forces have failed to
make the deadline for withdrawal. Lieutenant Tavus and Master Orgus
land on Balmorra where the Republic general makes it clear that his
forces are unable to withdraw—they’re been drawn back into
battle with the Imperials after the heroics of Jedi Knight Fortris
Gall. Master Orgus confronts his former Padawan even as Lieutenant
Tavus and Satele Shan set out to visit another world where the war
still rages...
(Source: swtor.com ) |
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Book News: Death Troopers
excerpt at StarWars.com:
Posted: 17th September
With less than a month to the US release of Death
Troopers by Joe Schreiber, Star Wars' first horror novel, StarWars.com
have published a short excerpt which you can read here .
Death Troopers
is due for hardback release in the US on 13th October and paperback
release in the UK on 22nd October. |
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Book News: Amazon release plot
summary for Gambit - Siege:
Posted: 15th September
Amazon.co.uk have published a plot summary for Gambit
- Siege, the second instalment of Karen Miller's Gambit
duology and the final The Clone Wars TV series tie-in novel.
[CONTAINS SPOILERS - HIGHLIGHT BETWEEN
ARROWS TO READ]>>>Obi-Wan
Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are trapped on the Separatist controlled
planet Lanteeb, on the run from General Lok Durd and his droid army.
After being forced to abandon their jerry-rigged groundcar they
continue on foot, hunted, as they try to find a safe place to hide
and regroup before escaping the planet altogether. Eventually they
seek shelter in a remote Lanteeban village, but the Separatists
track them down. Now they're under siege...and the little time
they've bought themselves is running out.<<<
Gambit
- Siege is due to be released in May 2010.
(Source: Amazon.co.uk ) |
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Media News: Clone Commandos
DVD released in US today:
Posted: 15th September
Clone
Commandos showcases
four episodes of the TV series: Rookies, and the
three-episode "Ryloth" story: Storm over Ryloth, Innocents
of Ryloth and Liberty of Ryloth. It is released today in
US. |
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Book News: Death Troopers
marketing campaign begins:
Posted: 11th September
Del Rey have begun their marketing campaign for next month's
release of Death
Troopers by Joe Schreiber, Star Wars' first horror novel,
with a series of survivors' messages released by "The
Imperial Corrections Service", that have been posted on
various Star Wars websites intended to tease readers. They are DeathTroopers.com ;
StarWars.com ;
SWActionNews.com ;
NJOE.com ;
RebelScum.com ;
TheForce.net
and ClubJade.net .
Also released was a revised and updated book tour list by Joe
Schrieber which you can read on our Death
Troopers page.
Death Troopers
is due for hardback release in the US on 13th October and paperback
release in the UK on 22nd October. |
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Book News: Character
Encyclopedia from DK next summer & Secret Missions #2
named:
Posted: 9th September
Amazon.com
have listed a new reference book from Dorling
Kindersley titled Star Wars The Clone Wars: Character
Encyclopedia. This 200 page hardback is penned to be published
on 21st June 2010 (US) and while little is known of this title it is
possible it could join The
Visual Guide and Ultimate
Battles books as a third reference title.
Affiliate StarWarsTimeline.com
have notified us that the second title in the new
youth reader series, The Clone Wars: Secret Missions,
is to be Curse of the Black Hole: On their first
official assignment to a distant world in the Unknown Regions, the
young Jedi Nuru Kungurama and the newly-formed Breakout Squad take
an unexpected and very dangerous detour. Suddenly overwhelmed by
space pirates, the members of Breakout Squad become convinced that a
traitor is in their midst. Meanwhile, far across the galaxy, the
Sith Lords attempt to enlist a Jedi to help them with their dark
schemes. As yet no date for release has been announced. |
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Comic News: Comics for
December:
Posted: 9th September
StarWars.com have posted solicitations from Dark Horse
Comics for their December releases. They include Dark
Times #17, the conclusion to the Blue Harvest
storyline. Also released in November is Knights
of the Old Republic #48, the second of a four-part storyline
Demon, that sees the origin of Demagol revealed!;
while The
Clone Wars #11 continues Hero of the Confederacy.
Lastly Legacy #43
begins a new story Vongspawn in which Master Wolf
Sazen decides it's time he look again for his wayward former Padawan
Cade Skywalker.
Also announced was the confirmation of the next The Clone Wars
Digest graphic novella, The
Colossus of Destiny and the eighth graphic novel collection
of Knights of the
Old Republic comic series, Destroyer.
Both are expected in February 2010.
(Source: StarWars.com ) |
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Book News: Fangoria.com review Death
Troopers:
Posted: 8th September
Star Wars' first horror novel, Death
Troopers by Joe Schreiber, has been reviewed by Allan Dart
at Fangoria.com. It would appear that although Death
Troopers maybe Star Wars' first horror novel, according to
Allan, it brings nothing new to the horror genre or does it take
full advantage of the possibilities the Star Wars Expanded Universe
offers as he writes: "when you get down to brass tacks, Death
Troopers doesn’t really offer any improvements or
upgrades to its derivative premise. There are a number of
imaginative and resourceful directions and opportunities that
Schreiber misses and/or ignores, and the upshot is a prosaically
imitative zombie tale that doesn’t take enough advantage of the
Star Wars Universe".
You can read the full review here
[CONTAINS SPOILERS]
Death Troopers
is due for hardback release in the US on 13th October and paperback
release in the UK on 22nd October.
(Source: Fangoria.com
via TheForce.net
& ClubJade.net ) |
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Book News: New plot summary for
Crosscurrent:
Posted: 5th September
Random House's UK website has published a plot summary for Crosscurrent,
Paul S. Kemp's first Star Wars novel due in January that features
Jaden Korr, and it differs slightly from the official
summary published by StarWars.com: [CONTAINS
SPOILERS - HIGHLIGHT BETWEEN ARROWS TO READ]>>>Thousands
of years before the Legacy of the Force series, two Sith ships were
sabotaged, resulting in the crash of one on a distant, isolated
planet, and the loss of the other in a hyperspace anomaly. The
survivors of the crashed ship evolved into the Lost Tribe of Sith
introduced in our new Fate of the Jedi series. But the other ship
was lost in a kind of time warp, finally exiting hyperspace far, far
in the future--the time of the Legacy of the Force series, a very
different galaxy from the one they left behind in what seems to be
almost no time at all. Now Jedi Knight Jaden Korr--who will be
introduced as a new Star Wars character in Fate of the Jedi:
Abyss--must find a way to prevent these time-traveling Sith from
asserting their horrific ambitions over a galaxy already reeling
from the depredations of the control-hungry Jacen Solo.<<<
(Source: RandomHouse.co.uk ) |
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Book News: Pre-order your
signed copy of Death Troopers:
Posted: 3rd September
TheSignedPage.com
are taking pre-orders for signed copies of Joe Schreiber's first
Star Wars novel and Star Wars' first horror novel, Death
Troopers. Each signed copy is $24 plus shipping
with or without personalization, payment must be via PayPal. TheSignedPage.com
also offer international
delivery
(up to a maximum of two copies) for non-US residents.
(Source: Death
Troopers Twitter ) |
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Book News: The Clone Wars
book releases for younger readers:
Posted: 2nd September
(UPDATED: 3rd September)
Now available in the US is Draw
Star Wars: The Clone Wars by Bonnie Burton and Grant Gould
and published by Klutz Books. This is one title that needs little
description as it is packed with tips and techniques, practice
space to draw right in the book, and translucent overlays that make
tracing a snap! Also released in the US, and for the youngest
readers, is Blast
Them! from Dalmatian Press, a colouring book with added
sound!
In the UK, young readers can enjoy The
Clone Wars Annual 2010.
UPDATE: Now
available in the US are two young reader books from Grosset &
Dunlap: The
Holocron Heist by Rob Valois features bounty hunter Cad
Bane and his attempt to steal the Jedi Order's most guarded secret;
whilst Secret
Missions #1: Breakout Squad by Ryder Windham begins a new
series of books for older children: immediately following the
destruction of the Separatist battleship Malevolence, a small team
of Clones and their Jedi General are sent deep into the dangerous
Wild Space to uncover the secret of the mysterious ship’s origin.
(Secret
Missions #1: Breakout Squad will be released in the UK in October).
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Comic News: Dark Horse's
Halloween Bundle available now:
Posted: 2nd September
As well as the third issue of Invasion
being released today, comic fans should also be able to get their
hands on Dark Horse Comic's Star Wars Halloween Bundle. Each
bundle contains 25 mini-sized comics featuring a reprint of Planet
of the Dead (a story first published in Tales
#17) where Han Solo and his best pal, Chewbacca, stumble
upon something frightening when they become stranded on a planet
shrouded in a deep and mysterious fog. The mini-comics are
designed as an alternative to handing out candy on Halloween! |
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Comic News: Invasion #3
released today:
Posted: 2nd September
The third issue of Invasion is available from today: The
forces of the New Republic, led by Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, are
determined to prevent the Yuuzhan Vong from establishing a beachhead
on the planet Rychel, but they are not prepared to face the
monstrous living weapons of their enemy...more |
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