The Illustrated Star Wars Universe (Star Wars) | Kevin J. Anderson

The Illustrated Star Wars Universe (Star Wars) | Kevin J. Anderson | A deeply beautiful illustrated guide to some of the greatest planets in the Star Wars Trilogy

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	The Illustrated Star Wars Universe (Star Wars) Kevin J. Anderson Spectra, 1997 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In trade paper for the first time, this spectacular book takes readers to eight imaginative locales in the Star Wars universe, including the desert planet of Tatooine; Coruscant, the center of the Empire; Hoth, the ice world; Dagobah, swampy home of Yoda; the forest moon of Endor; and Alderaan, home world of Princess Leia. Illustrations, many in color. BDD ONLINE feature.

A MUST FOR STAR WARS FANS

Awesome Illustrations and enjoyable narratives to go along with them. Lots of fun.

A deeply beautiful illustrated guide to some of the greatest planets in the Star Wars Trilogy

This book, the "Illustrated Star Wars Universe", is one of the most beautiful books I have ever had the pleasure to read. It is full of pictures of different aspects of several of the important worlds in the Star Wars universe - such as Hoth, Coruscant, Tatooine, Alderaan, Endor - that, when complemented by the text, make this an easily readable and pleasant book.

The text that accompanies the artwork is top-notch in most cases. Although Kevin J.Anderson's work is considered to be of mixed quality by many Star Wars fans, in this book he does an excellent job of writing each planet's account "in-universe", from the perspective of different indviduals (such as a former poet and political activist from Alderaan, a rebel engineer on Hoth, and so forth).

The only weakness in this book is the description of Alderaan. It is described as a world largely composed of flowing grasslands with small seas, contradicting the blue image seen in the movies. This has a relatively harmless origin, dating back to a picture of Yavin 4 misplaced as a photo of Alderaan, and expanded upon in this text.

Regardless of the above, this is an excellent purchase choice for anyone interested in the Star Wars universe, or even just in some beautiful Star Wars artwork.

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Entertaining travel guide to the Star Wars galaxy.....

Take the artistic talents of acclaimed production artist Ralph McQuarrie and the writing skills of prolific author Kevin J. Anderson (The Jedi Academy Trilogy) and you get The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, a coffee table book that gives readers a glimpse of the various planets showcased in George Lucas' original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-83).

Using McQuarrie's production sketches and paintings for A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and other Lucasfilm projects (including the Endor-based television specials of the mid-1980s plus preliminary sketches for the 1997 Special Edition updates), Anderson takes readers on a grand tour of the most important planets seen in the Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader half of the Star Wars Saga. Starting with Tatooine, the desert world that is the home world to both Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke and ending with Alderaan, the planet where Princess Leia was hidden from her father and was doomed to be destroyed by the Death Star, eight planets are described in individual chapters, each told not by one omniscient narrator but by eight different observers, each with his or her point of view and/or political agenda.

For instance, while the chapter on Tatooine is an anthropologist's dispassionate and scientific report on the desert planet's hostile environment and its hardy inhabitants (ranging from the nomadic and hostile Tusken Raiders and scavenging Jawas to the resilient human moisture farmers and their homesteads), the description of Coruscant, the massive city-planet which was once the seat of power of the Old Republic and is the capital of Emperor Palpatine's Galactic Empire, is a pro-Imperial propaganda article authored by Pollus Hax, the Emperor's chief public relations expert and "spin doctor."

Although much of the artwork featured in The Illustrated Star Wars Universe has been published elsewhere (either in the various Art of Star Wars books relating to the Classic Trilogy or in McQuarrie's Star Wars Portfolios), this combination of production paintings and Anderson's vivid and imaginative text works wonderfully and adds detail and background to both the movies and the post-Episode VI Expanded Universe novels, including Anderson's own JedI Academy trilogy and Darksaber.

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A fun tour of the Star Wars universe

I remember loving this book as a kid. The pictures were great and the backstories well thought out. I wish they had updated it for the prequel trilogies, but I guess they haven't.

Great visual resource

This product is great for getting inspiration for writing a story or preparing a game, or simply trying to identify something out of the movies or comics. Recommended to anyone looking for a reference book or a place to draw some science fiction inspiration from.

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