After “Infiltrator” (2001) rather leisurely explored the John-Sarah relationship, added Dieter to the brotherhood of the brave and chronicled yet another attack on Cyberdyne, “Rising Storm” (2002) raises the stakes. The second book in S.M. Stirling’s “T2” […]
Not counting the novelizations, it took a remarkable 17 years after the first movie for the first “Terminator” book to be released: S.M. Stirling’s “T2: Infiltrator” (2001), the first of a trilogy. Fans at the time no […]
With “Episode VII: The Force Awakens” appearing to return to the GFFA’s home planet later this year, it’s a good time to look back at “Tatooine Ghost” (2003), which is set entirely on the sand planet. It […]
The “Empire and Rebellion” series was supposed to delve into the minds of Leia, Han and Luke, respectively, in three very loosely connected novels set between Episodes IV and V. 2013’s “Razor’s Edge” dropped the […]
Drew Karpyshyn’s “Darth Bane: Path of Destruction” put a tidy symbolic bow on two pieces of Sith lore that are known to the Jedi in “Episode I”: 1) That the Sith have been extinct for […]
Darth Bane’s presence in the Disney canon is sparse: Terry Brooks introduced him as the originator of the Rule of Two (one Sith master, one apprentice) in the “Phantom Menace” novelization, then Mark Hamill voiced […]
If I wasn’t a die-hard “Star Wars” books completist, I would’ve given up on Joe Schreiber after “Red Harvest,” which was a whole novel’s worth of people I didn’t care about slaughtering or getting eaten […]
As with the first “Veronica Mars” novel (last year’s “The Thousand Dollar Tan Line”), the follow-up, “Mr. Kiss and Tell” (January, paperback), is a wonderful continuation from the TV show and movie. With Rob Thomas writing (along […]
The latest issue of Star Wars Insider (No. 155) espouses ring theory as a way to glean greater depth from the repeating motifs in the “Star Wars” films. The theory could also be applied to […]
“The Terminator” (1984) is a pivotal movie in sci-fi history. Wanting to make his own “Star Wars”-level blockbuster, director James Cameron drew upon the tropes of time travel and robots – and more specifically and controversially, a […]