May The Force Be With You…..Always!
A few weeks ago I posted about the Haynes Star Wars Rebellion Starfighters Manual which was a lot of fun to read. Equally as fun to read is the Star Trek USS Enterprise Manual which was published back in 2010. If you are a Trekkie/Trekker and your passion is starships then you need this book... Continue Reading →
As with 'The Force Awakens' and 'The Last Jedi', Dorling Kindersley have released a visual dictionary for 'The Rise of Skywalker'. Its packed full of photos and information on people, planets, ships, weapons, tech and more. There are also a number of behind the scenes images and two very interesting maps. The first is an... Continue Reading →
The Star Wars Rebel Starfighters Owners Workshop Manual is the latest sci-fi publication from Haynes Manuals who also published the manual for Star Trek's USS Enterprise (review coming soon). Detailing the technical information of all known starfighters, this book covers the evolution of the ships used by the Rebel Alliance all the way through to... Continue Reading →
Star Wars Year-By-Year A Visual History is published in the UK by Dorling Kindersley. Its a large-format, hardcover book that comes in a solid cardboard out-casing. This book details the history of Star Wars from before the first film went into production, alongside the impact that Star Wars had on real-world events from the same... Continue Reading →
Star Wars At Star Wars Celebration Europe II in 2016 I met the awesome Phil Szostak who is author of 'The Art of....' Star Wars books. He signed my copy of 'The Art of The Force Awakens'. If you've never seen these books and are a Star Wars fan, they are beautiful and the artwork... Continue Reading →
Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse is a canon novel and part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It was published in November 2019 by Del Rey in the US and Penguin in the UK. Set in the aftermath of 'The Last Jedi', it tells the story of how Leia, Poe, Finn... Continue Reading →
I really don't want to say too much about this novel as it will spoil it! Suffice to say if you are a fan of both Star Trek: Discovery AND the original Star Trek series, you will love this book! Written by Dayton Ward and set 10 years before The Battle at the Binary Stars... Continue Reading →
Between the release of Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace there is a period known as 'The Dark Times'. There were not many novels with new Star Wars stories available, and most of them were of poor quality Then Timothy Zahn came along with his 'Heir to the Empire- Thrawn Trilogy' and it... Continue Reading →
When Star Wars first came out back in 1977, memorabilia of any kind was hard to find. There were some bits available, some official others far from it. The Kenner/Palitoy action figure range would eventually help the cravings for more bur until such time I had these two books to satisfy me. Star Wars Annual... Continue Reading →
