Books

‘Star Wars’ fans get 3 Darths for the price of 1 in ‘Darth Plagueis’ (Book review)

“Darth Plagueis” (January, hardcover) is arguably the most hyped-up “Star Wars” novel since 1996’s “Shadows of the Empire,” with the ForceCast (which plans an upcoming “Darth

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Time to meet another Darth — sort of — in Drew Karpyshyn’s ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic – Revan’ (Book review)

“Star Wars” novels have been on quite a Darth kick lately. “The Old Republic: Deceived” introduced us to Darth Malgus, and the much-hyped upcoming “Darth

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A&E doing a beautiful adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Bag of Bones’ (TV review)

“Bag of Bones” (1998) is one of my favorite Stephen King books, so it’s refreshing to see A&E doing a beautiful job adapting it. (Part one

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Dash Rendar returns in ‘Star Wars: Shadow Games.’ Yay? (Book review)

Is there a “Star Wars” character that evokes a less passionate response than Dash Rendar? Boba Fett will get a “Love him,” Jar Jar will

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‘Cold Vengeance’: From monsters to human monsters, Pendergast-verse keeps getting richer (Book review)

There’s a great human monster in “Cold Vengeance” (August, hardcover), the latest Pendergast novel from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. He’s Falkoner, a German assassin with an

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In ‘Riptide,’ the ‘Star Wars’ Expanded Universe and ‘The Clone Wars’ finally work together (Book review)

Sometimes it seems like the “Star Wars” Expanded Universe is under attack by “The Clone Wars,” what with the premature killing off of Even Piell

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In ‘Fate of the Jedi: Ascension,’ Vestara emerges as one of the best ‘Star Wars’ Expanded Universe characters (Book review)

If the “Fate of the Jedi” series wasn’t your cup of tea up to this point, it still isn’t; much of the plotting involves political

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‘Heir to the Empire,’ the book that jump-started the ‘Star Wars’ Expanded Universe, celebrates 20 years (Book commentary)

Sometime in the late 1990s, I was at Paradox Comics in Fargo, N.D., talking with the proprietor about “Star Wars.” I mentioned Timothy Zahn’s novels,

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Timothy Zahn proves he’s still got it with ‘Star Wars: Choices of One’ (Book review)

Through the years, I’ve been tempted to label authors other than Timothy Zahn as my favorite “Star Wars” scribe — Michael Stackpole for his plotting,

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Malgus joins the parade of Darths in ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic – Deceived’ (Book review)

For a reader, one of the fun parts of the explosion of “Star Wars” spinoff literature in recent years is finding meanings in the names

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