A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Cover art by Two Dots Studio. © 2019 Del Rey Books and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL)  On July 23, 2019, Random House's Del Rey Books imprint published Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason, the third volume of a three-book cycle featuring the Galactic Empire's most talented military figure: Grand Admiral Thrawn. Set shortly before the fourth and final season of Star Wars Rebels, the television series that officially placed Thrawn in the Star Wars canon, Thrawn: Treason pits its titular protagonist, not against the ever-growing threat from the budding Rebel Alliance but against foes from within and without the Empire itself. Grand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. "If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance." Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to Emperor Palpatine at their first meeting. Since then, Thrawn has been one of the ...

Cover art by Tara Philips. © 2019 Disney-Lucasfilm Press Well, Dear Readers, it's Friday again, and here I am with a new Star Wars book about Padme Amidala, a character who is prominent in the franchise as the secret wife of the Man Who Will Be Vader and the ill-fated mother of the Skywalker Twins (Luke and Leia). Best of all, we get to revisit our favorite galaxy far, far away during a period that has not been explored much since the House of Mouse purchased Lucasfilm from George "the Maker" Lucas almost seven years ago: the Prequel Era. On March 5, Disney-Lucasfilm Press published E.K. Johnston's Star Wars: Queen's Shadow, a novel set four years after the events of Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace. In this all-new canonical novel by the author of Star Wars: Ahsoka, we get to follow the 18-year-old Padme as she makes the life-changing transition from being the elected monarch of Naboo to the challenging and perhaps even perilous world of galactic p...

Prior to Disney declaring the Star Wars Expanded Universe non-canon, was 'The Force Unleashed 2' considered canon? No. Before George Lucas decided to sell Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company in 2012, the company had already stated that G-canon (that is, the Gospel of  Star Wars  according to George) only consisted of: The six  Star Wars  motion pictures that existed at the time. (There was no plan to make the Sequels until the deal with Disney was made.) The  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  movie (2008) and the TV series that was then in its fifth season. The novelizations and comic book adaptations of the films. The  Star Wars Radio Dramas  were where canonicity got tricky. Long ago, the radio series based on the original  Star Wars  Trilogy was considered canon. But sometime before 2012, Lucasfilm decreed that only the material  directly  derived from the film scripts was co-equal in canon with the films. Conseque...

Cover art by Two Dots. (C) 2017 Del Rey Books and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) On April 11, 2017, Del Rey Books, an imprint of Random House, published Timothy Zahn's canonical novel, Star Wars: Thrawn, the long-awaited origin story of one of the greatest villains ever created for the space-fantasy franchise set "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Grand Admiral Thrawn was originally conceived by Zahn in the early Nineties when Lucasfilm and Bantam Spectra hired the Hugo Award-winning author to reboot the moribund Star Wars Expanded Universe. Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. the final chapter of George Lucas's storied trilogy, was only followed by a handful of Lando Calrissian novels set before Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope and a lackluster Marvel Comics line that ended publication in 1986. And with the long-rumored Prequel Trilogy apparently on permanent hold, it looked as though the franchise itself was in danger of dying. The publication...