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The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley that follows Robert Ross, a nineteen-year-old Canadian who enlists in World War I after the death of his beloved older sister in an attempt to escape both his grief and the social norms of oppressive Edwardian [1] society. Drawn into the madness of war, Ross commits "a last desperate act to declare ...
[4] [5] [6] The first new canon adult novel was Star Wars: A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller, published in September 2014. [ 7 ] This is a list of original novels, novel adaptations, original junior novels, junior novel adaptations, young readers, and short stories in the Star Wars franchise.
The novel's massive success contributed somewhat to the popularity of the film. [10] Some later editions contain sixteen pages of full-color photos from the motion picture. [11] Later editions of the novelization were published under altered titles to reflect the retitling of the film, such as Star Wars: A New Hope, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, written by Karen Traviss, is the novelization of the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars. [1] The audio book is narrated by Jeff Gurner. It is the first in a series of five novels designed to tie into the events of the movie and the animated series. [2] The book was released almost three weeks before the film was ...
The New Rebellion is a 1996 bestselling Star Wars novel written by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and published by Bantam Spectra. The novel is set thirteen years after the Battle of Endor in the Star Wars expanded universe.
Glut had a much more negative experience while writing the novel than Alan Dean Foster did when Foster wrote the novelization of Star Wars, as information about the film's production was segmented inside of Lucasfilm. On one occasion he asked a Lucasfilm employee if a production sketch depicted Yoda, and the employee replied "Don’t tell me! I ...
In 2009, an update to Star Wars Galaxies was released called "Death Troopers", based on the novel. [9] In 2012, the Blackwing virus from the novel would be added to the Disney Star Wars canon when it was added to the game Star Wars Commander. [10] In 2024, Stephano Cagani created a fan game based on the novel and released it on Itch.io. [11]
The war novel came of age during the nineteenth century, with works like Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma (1839), which features the Battle of Waterloo, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869), about the Napoleonic Wars in Russia, and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (1895), which deals with the American Civil War.