Star Wars Beyond the Films‘ Nathan P. Butler is now posting short, non-spoiler reviews for many new releases. Spoiler-filled discussion will often follow in the weeks or months thereafter on the podcast. Catalyst by James Luceno (hardcover, 2016) James Luceno, AKA the “Lucenopedia,” has written Star Wars novels off and on since 2000’s Hero’s Trial. His works have ranged […]
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Catalyst – SWBW #67
It’s Rogue One week! Check out our review of Catalyst before you go see the movie. New Star Wars! We talk about our plans to see Rogue One opening night, and Teresa explains why her excitment level is still at a 4. Familiar voices. Before we jump into our book review we discuss the latest […]
NYCC: Star Wars Authors’ Roundtable
One of my favorite panels at NYCC this year was one put on by Lucasfilm: “Star Wars Presents: A Writers Roundtable”, with panelists and Star Wars authors Timothy Zahn, James Luceno, Chuck Wendig, E.K. Johnston, Kieron Gillen, and Charles Soule. The moderators were Jennifer Heddle and Michael Siglain from Lucasfilm. I had a blast hearing all of the panelists speak about […]
Celebration Recap and Interviews – SWBW #41
Now that some time has passed and we are down from our Celebration high, it’s time to think back on all the good times. Celebration was packed with awesome Star Wars events, celebrity sightings, and hanging out with all our favorite people. We take some time to recap our Celebration Anaheim experience. We also got […]
Casting Legends – SWBW #23
Big movie and book news has been released since our last episode and we need to talk about it! We put together this special episode to briefly talk the Episode VII casting and to dig into the big Star Wars Expanded Universe news. As our guest this episode we have Megan from Blog Full of […]
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Top 10 Standalone Star Wars Novels
Lately I have been hearing concern from fans of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. They say the universe is too big and bogged down in continuity for new fans to jump in. I disagree. Yes, there are A LOT of novels and many of them are a part of a LONG series, but there are […]