Series: Star Wars: Novelizations
by Author George Lucas
Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Although Star Wars (fine, 'A New Hope') is my favourite movie in the series, I understand that The Empire Strikes Back is, critically speaking, the best of the trilogy. So, I was curious to see how it would turn out in print.Donald F. Glut's writing is somewhat less melodramatic than Alan Dean Fo...
Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
I wanted to do 4.5 stars, but I had to round up. This was a surprisingly enjoyable book. I didn't expect it to be bad, mind you - I was just pleasantly surprised by a lot of details in Kahn's book that aren't in the movie. At times Kahn does go a bit overboard: there's a few "from the depths o...
Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Matthew Stover is a greater talent than Charles Dickens, Henry James and Proust all rolled into one. Ok, perhaps not. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith may not be *quite* as good as A Tale of Two Cities but it surely takes some kind of genius to take a Lucas prequel screenplay and turn it into a...
Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2003)
Obviously, this book is the companion to the movie of the same title. It fills in some valuable additional background and character development that was absent in the film.First: we get more of a view of Padme's mindset when Anakin comes back into her life. In the movie, it is clear that Anakin r...
Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace (2000)
"The opinions of others whether you agree with them or not are something you have to learn to tolerate"Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, two Jedi knights (well, one is a Master, the other his Padawan, but who's counting?), are surreptitiously sent to Naboo to negotiate a treaty to put an end to the blockade t...