15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, featuring James Luceno
Each week on 15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, Host Sohaib Awan will highlight the best in genre entertainment. Dedicated to a serious discussion on pop culture, industry leaders will...
View ArticleThe Millennium Falcon – A Character in Her Own Right?
My journey with Star Wars began slack-jawed, staring up at a starfield as the Tantive IV fled a wedge-shaped Star Destroyer. Right from that moment, the story had been put in motion simply by the...
View ArticleDarth Maul Lives
Thinking back to your first experience seeing The Phantom Menace in 1999, what two words come to mind about how you viewed Darth Maul then? I posed that question to a number of Star Wars fans, and...
View ArticleStories from a Certain Point of View
A young hero from a desolate and isolated region, torn from that life by the evil machinations of an oppressive regime, mentored by a wise-yet-weary warrior, forced into new alliances and a rebellion,...
View ArticleIt’s a Big (Expanded) Universe – A Fangirl’s Thoughts on Where to Start
Last year at GeekGirlCon’s Star Wars Expanded Universe panel, an audience member posed the question – Where should I start? In the Star Wars Expanded Universe where the books and comics present one...
View ArticleNew This Month from Del Rey Spectra: October 2012
Check out these hot new titles from Del Rey, Spectra, and Lucas Books! ----- The Essential Reader's Companion: Star Wars by Pablo Hidalgo 9780345511195 LucasBooks Trade Paperback - 10/2/2012 THE...
View ArticleA New Dawn: Relaunch Of ‘Star Wars’ Adult Fiction Line Announced Today!
From the moment that Lucasfilm announced plans for a new Star Wars film, readers have been curious about the future of the saga's Expanded Universe books and what role, if any, they would play in the...
View ArticleStar Wars HoloNet Digest #55: April 23-30, 2014
Artwork courtesy of Joshua Stolte Welcome back to the Star Wars HoloNet Digest, a weekly feature where I bring you a recap of the latest news from the world of Star Wars. Whether it’s an Episode VII...
View ArticleNew Artwork For James Luceno’s Star War Novel ‘Tarkin’
Our friends at the official Star Wars books Facebook page unveiled this particularly stunning piece of back cover artwork from James Luceno's Star Wars: Tarkin, due out this November. I loved Luceno's...
View ArticleStar Wars HoloNet Digest #71: October 1-9, 2014
Artwork courtesy of Joshua Stolte Welcome back to the Star Wars HoloNet Digest, a weekly feature where I bring you a recap of the latest news from the world of Star Wars. Whether it’s a movie...
View Article50 Page Fridays: James Luceno
Every Friday, we here @ Del Rey Spectra will place a 50 page excerpt of a selected title on Suvudu. Whether it is science fiction, epic fantasy, alternate history, horror, urban fantasy, paranormal,...
View ArticleSuvudu Likes: 11/1/14
The internet(s) gives and gives and gives. There are some great sci-fi/fantasy bloggers out there, fans who are devoting a lot of time and energy into supporting authors and their readers. Variety is...
View ArticleNew This Month from Del Rey Spectra: November 2014
Check out these hot new titles from Del Rey, Spectra, and Lucas Books! ----- Star Wars: Tarkin by James Luceno 9780345511522 Lucasbooks Hardcover - 11/04/2014 A long time ago in a galaxy far, far...
View ArticleInterview with James Luceno, Author, “Star Wars: Tarkin”
When Lucasfilm decided to relaunch its Star Wars publishing program, one of the first authors the company turned to was James Luceno. Having written books like Labyrinth of Evil, Dark Lord: The Rise...
View ArticleStar Wars HoloNet Digest #74: October 22 – November 5, 2014
Artwork courtesy of Joshua Stolte Welcome back to the Star Wars HoloNet Digest, a weekly feature where I bring you a recap of the latest news from the world of Star Wars. Whether it’s a movie...
View ArticleStar Wars HoloNet Digest #83: January 21 – February 4, 2015
Artwork courtesy of Joshua Stolte Happy New Year and welcome back to the Star Wars HoloNet Digest, a weekly feature where I bring you a recap of the latest news from the world of Star Wars. Whether...
View Article5 Things I Want From Star Wars: Catalyst
Cover detail from Star Wars: Catalyst by James Luceno. Star Wars: Catalyst by James Luceno is in fine bookstores today! I have not had the fortune to read it yet. The book has been kept top secret due...
View ArticleListen to an Excerpt from the Star Wars: Rogue One: Catalyst Audiobook
Ben Mendelsohn as Orson Krennic in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”/Lucasfilm © Rogue One: Catalyst, the official prequel story to the film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was released this week, and...
View ArticleGifts for the Geek | Day 3: Star Wars: Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
Star Wars. All the Star Wars. That’s what I want for Christmas — and chances are the geek in your life does, too. Christmas Day is a busy one for movie theaters, and seeing “Rogue One: A Star Wars...
View ArticleGifts for the Geek | Day 20: Rogue One Merchandise
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” has spread through the galaxy. Even the Empire can’t stop it. The movie opened last weekend on the US silver screen to $155 million. That’s a lot of geeks in theater...
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