del rey books
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Delilah S. Dawson’s The Violence First Look: A Terrifying Illness Sparks Chaos
Delilah S. Dawson is best known around these parts for her Star Wars books (Phasma, Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire), but she’s also written several non-Star Wars fantasies (like the Tales of Pell with Kevin Hearne). Her latest, though, is The Violence, a dystopian thriller about a woman’s perilous path to freedom.
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Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil Will Dig Even Deeper Into the Chiss’ Past
With author Timothy Zahn’s recent Thrawn novels, the titular Chiss strategist was brought back into the heart of the Star Wars franchise’s current canon that largely erased other parts of the expanded universe established prior to Disney acquiring the rights to Star Wars back in 2012. While his story may be long from over, Lucasfilm…
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Star Wars: Republic Commando’s Spirit Still Lives, Even in a Franchise That Killed It
There’s a paradoxical relationship between the legacy of one of Star Wars’ best games and the animated show that became one of the most beloved pillars of the franchise at large. Arguably, Star Wars: The Clone Wars killed Republic Commando at its apex — but without the groundwork it laid, the animated series and its…
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Padmé Amidala’s Literary Star Wars Trilogy Will Conclude With Queen’s Hope
Originally, author E.K. Johnson wanted to call the third book in her Star Wars Padmé trilogy Queen’s Gambit. You can probably guess why she had to change it, settling on Queen’s Hope as her second choice.