The Best Star Wars Novelization Is Getting a New Special Edition

Star Wars fans are utilized to having their favourite pieces of the franchise fixed upgrades, and present that aforesaid thought is coming to a bookstore adjacent you. Lucasfilm conscionable announced that for the 20th anniversary, it volition beryllium releasing a deluxe variation of Matthew Stover’s novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, wide regarded arsenic 1 of, if not the, champion novelizations successful the bid and perchance the medium.

“We couldn’t beryllium much excited to people this unthinkable deluxe variation of the Revenge of the Sith novelization,” Tom Hoeler of Random House World told Collider, which broke the news.

“It has been thrilling to enactment with writer Matthew Stover and Lucasfilm to make a afloat annotated variation that gives readers unprecedented penetration to the instauration of this masterpiece. Across astir 50 years of Star Wars books, it stands alone, and adjacent among movie novelizations its attack to adapting characters and communicative from surface to leafage is unique. Two decades later, this novelization is arsenic essential, enduring, and influential—on readers and creators—as it has ever been. Bringing the publication backmost to hardcover successful a stunning deluxe keepsake variation is simply a cleanable mode to observe 20 years of Revenge of the Sith.”

The Revenge of the Sith Deluxe Edition – Penguin Random House

So, what bash you get successful this deluxe edition? Well, the publication itself is upgraded with “an acetate overgarment with foil stamping, a insubstantial over-board publication case, gilded and stained edges, illustrated full-color extremity papers, and a reddish satin ribbon market.” Most crucially, though, the substance has “over 150 annotations” from Stover, giving readers a uncommon glimpse into the caput of the writer who made america deliberation otherwise astir this story.

And really, that’s the champion benignant of celebration the Revenge of the Sith‘s novelization could have. Even 20 years later, there’s inactive fewer movie novelizations that instrumentality the attack Stover did—Revenge of the Sith is much than conscionable a retelling of the movie you know, bushed by bushed of it’s publication (with immoderate changes, depending connected the drafts the writer had entree to). It grants a furniture of interiority that adds extent to its characters and world, and Stover’s lavish prose amplifies the mytho-poetic underpinnings of Star Wars to weave the inevitable calamity of the Jedi Order and Republic’s falls into thing acold grander. There is simply a crushed radical tin inactive punctuation lines of narration from this publication 2 decades later: it’s a cleanable complimentary substance to the movie, a expansive solemnisation of 1 imaginativeness of it, told and presented successful a mode that truly does dainty it similar immoderate agelong agone fable.

According to the Random House website, the deluxe variation volition beryllium retired connected October 14 and volition outgo $60. Head present for much info.

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