Books

‘Blue Labyrinth’ blends classic museum horror with fascinating new locales (Book review)

For their 14th Pendergast novel, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child do more than merely pay lip service to the evocative location that put them on

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‘Terminator’ flashback: ‘T2: Rising Storm’ (2002) (Book review)

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)

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‘Terminator’ flashback: ‘T2: Infiltrator’ (2001) (Book review)

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),

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Tatooine Ghost’ (2003) (Book review)

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

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‘Star Wars’ Expanded Universe comes to mediocre conclusion with ‘Honor Among Thieves’ (Book review)

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

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Darth Bane: Rule of Two’ (2008) (Book review)

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

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Darth Bane: Path of Destruction’ (2006) (Book review)

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

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‘Maul: Lockdown’ shows major improvement in Schreiber’s ‘Star Wars’/horror mix (Book review)

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

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New ‘Veronica Mars’ novel ‘Mr. Kiss and Tell’ explores justice system abuses (Book review)

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

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‘Terminator’ flashback: ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ movie and novelization (1991) (Review)

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

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