Star Wars’ New Books Dive Into Palpatine’s Hunt for Rey and Obi-Wan and Anakin’s Business

Lucasfilm publishing and Del Rey won’t formally be at New York Comic Con because it kicks off in the present day, however they’re bringing their ordinary slice of upcoming novel information anyway—and whether or not you’re a fan of the sequels or the prequels, of Jedi or Sith, or possibly a lovably incompetent stooge or two, there’s one thing to take pleasure in.

Announced on StarWars.com in the present day had been 4 of the subsequent main Star Wars books from Del Rey and Disney Lucasfilm Press—other than the various upcoming tales inside the High Republic line of novels and comics, that’s. From Del Rey come two intriguing tales of the Clone Wars and the interval between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The former, Brotherhood (out May 10, 2022), is written by Mike Chen, is about in the course of the earliest days of the Clone War, as Obi-Wan is shipped to analyze a terror assault on the ostensibly impartial homeworld of the Trade Federation, Cato Nemoidia—solely to seek out Anakin, newly ascended past Obi-Wan’s tutelage to the rank of Jedi Knight, defying council orders and Obi-Wan’s personal private requests to tag alongside too, “bringing along a promising but conflicted youngling” for good measure. Aside from, presumably, offering a solution to that little Revenge of the Sith gag concerning the quantity of occasions Anakin has saved his former grasp’s life, the e-book needs to dive into the uneasy relationship Anakin and Obi-Wan discover themselves in when they’re now not pupil and grasp, and virtually father or mother and son, however as a substitute brothers within the dying days of the outdated Republic.

The different Del Rey novel, Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher (out June 28, 2022), will as a substitute take readers to a post-Return of the Jedi with Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian. The e-book is about in the course of the duo’s hunt for Palpatine’s Sith murderer, Ochi of Bestoon—briefly touched upon in The Rise of Skywalker, however maybe higher explored in Marvel’s present Darth Vader comedian as simply an unbelievable, absolute catastrophe of a person who’s comically good at consuming shit at each out there alternative. But even past the possibility to flesh out Ochi’s character, Shadow of the Sith could be very attention-grabbing because it needs to put the foreshadowed seeds for Palaptine and the Sith Eternal’s rise on Exegol, and discover Ochi’s final mission: discover the granddaughter of Darth Sidious, Rey, and her dad and mom.

Lucasfilm Press’ two books will likely be geared toward youthful readers. The first is an anthology, Stories of Jedi Sith—out June 7, 2022, and edited by Jennifer Heddle—collating tales of Force customers from the Light and Dark sides. The writer listing consists of Roseanne A. Brown, Sarwat Chadda, Delilah S. Dawson, Tessa Gratton, Michael Kogge, Sam Maggs, Michael Moreci, Alex Segura, Vera Strange, Karen Strong, and can function new illustrations by Jake Bartok. Padawan, due out July 26 and written by Kiersten White, will comply with a younger Obi-Wan throughout his time as a Padawan to Qui-Gon Jinn, because the younger man, pissed off by his new grasp’s distance, takes off on a mission of his personal to discover a world filled with younger individuals with their very own peculiar connections to the Force.

Suffice to say, between these and the already introduced subsequent wave of High Republic books, you received’t be capable of swing a lightsaber round with out hitting a a Star Wars e-book or six come subsequent yr.

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