- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: LucasBooks (April 2 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345428838
- ISBN-13: 978-0345428837
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.3 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #234,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Based on George Lucas's original screenplay and story, Stover's smart, efficient novelization isn't as humorous as the last of the Star Wars films, but it's packed full of stunning fight scenes, entertaining interludes with Obi-Wan Kenobi and delightful Yodaspeak ("Named must your fear be, before banish it you can"). Picking up where the movie left off, Stover (Star Wars: Shatterpoint) makes a heartfelt attempt at deepening the characterizations of Anakin Skywalker and his secret wife, Senator Padmé Amidala. Haunted by his failed attempt to save his mother's life and having a premonition of Padmé dying in childbirth, Skywalker chooses to serve Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith, in order to learn how to make his wife immortal. Sidious, who has been masquerading as the Republic's Supreme Chancellor Palpatine for many years, is determined, with the future Darth Vader's help, to destroy anyone who would defy him, including all Jedi and Separatists. Stover fills in the blanks regarding one of cinema's most fascinating villains with respect and relish, providing answers to such questions as why Vader looked so weird and how he became Luke's dad. This is the perfect companion to the blockbuster film.
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Book Description
The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at hand
After years of civil war, the Separatists have battered the already faltering Republic nearly to the point of collapse. On Coruscant, the Senate watches anxiously as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aggressively strips away more and more constitutional liberties in the name of safeguarding the Republic. Yoda, Mace Windu, and their fellow Masters grapple with the Chancellor’s disturbing move to assume control of the Jedi Council. And Anakin Skywalker, the prophesied Chosen One, destined to bring balance to the Force, is increasingly consumed by his fear that his secret love, Senator Padmé Amidala, will die.
As the combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader General Grievous. Palpatine, eager to secure even greater control, subtly influences public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakin–tormented by unspeakable visions–edges dangerously closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision. It remains only for Darth Sidious, whose shadow looms ever larger, to strike the final staggering blow against the Republic . . . and to ordain a fearsome new Sith Lord: Darth Vader.
Based on the screenplay of the eagerly anticipated final film in George Lucas’s epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stover’s novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style.
After years of civil war, the Separatists have battered the already faltering Republic nearly to the point of collapse. On Coruscant, the Senate watches anxiously as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aggressively strips away more and more constitutional liberties in the name of safeguarding the Republic. Yoda, Mace Windu, and their fellow Masters grapple with the Chancellor’s disturbing move to assume control of the Jedi Council. And Anakin Skywalker, the prophesied Chosen One, destined to bring balance to the Force, is increasingly consumed by his fear that his secret love, Senator Padmé Amidala, will die.
As the combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader General Grievous. Palpatine, eager to secure even greater control, subtly influences public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakin–tormented by unspeakable visions–edges dangerously closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision. It remains only for Darth Sidious, whose shadow looms ever larger, to strike the final staggering blow against the Republic . . . and to ordain a fearsome new Sith Lord: Darth Vader.
Based on the screenplay of the eagerly anticipated final film in George Lucas’s epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stover’s novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Stover Brings Honesty to the Dark Side,
By Timothy Uruski (Calgary, Alberta) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Hardcover)
There is a reason that Matthew Stover was chosen from the large pool of Star Wars and science-fiction authors to pen the novelization of Revenge of the Sith. This reason is that he writes dark well. Very well. Some fans will be completely disarmed and shocked by the brooding atmosphere created by both Lucas and Stover. After all, this is the darkest chapter in the Star Wars universe, the fall of The Chosen One. There should be no surprises. Anyone who has read Stover's other work, either Star Wars or The Acts of Caine, will tell you that it is anything but comforting. The worlds he depicts exist only in shades of gray, to some his work possesses a great deal of 'moral ambiguity.' But as Stover himself put it in an interview with SF Site: "It only looks ambiguous if you insist on framing a story's conflict in terms of Good vs. Evil. It's not that simple. Real life does not operate in those terms. Neither does my fiction." This might look like a startling conflict of interests. Stover's instinct to write honestly, and describe the world as it is, flies in direct opposition to the very thing Lucas set out to do with Star Wars: casting the world in absolutes and retelling the timeless conflict between good and evil by way of universal archetypes. Instead we see a stunning demonstration of Matthew Stover's ability to transform these unyielding absolutes into a truthful study of the human struggle to live with the consequences the decisions we make, even when we were only doing what we thought was right. In this, Stover captures the failing of Anakin Skywalker perfectly. He not only sympathetic, he is entirely human.
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Deeper into the revenge.. but maybe too deep,
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This review is from: Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Hardcover)
This official noveliztation of the last star wars movie is good.. as a science fiction/psychological thriller. To go deep into the characters and to have whole sections of the book dedicated to the inner workings of anakin/obi-wan/greivous/etc. is a good idea.. but it doesn't always work here. Maybe there are too many of these occurences, thereby diluting the effect. To me however, they just don't belong. Seeing as this is the last movie, the back story should have been more fleshed out, including adding depth to the deleted movie scenes.this is NOT a bad novelization, and it does have a lot of good points, i was just looking for more (who knows maybe i should have read it AFTER i saw the movie.. but that's another story :D)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly done, this book is.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Hardcover)
When I first opened this book and began to read I was quite excited. However, after it takes a total of 136 pages of a 418 page book for the "fast paced" opening to end I began to lose interest. I can look past the slow paced writing despite the author's love of showing his ability to use large words to describe small things. What I can't look past is the very poor editing. For instance: "How to we make Palpatine..." truly and abolutely. On a positive note, the author is quite knowledgeable about the Star Wars universe, but again this works against the novel over all.
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