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  • Paperback: 596 pages
  • Publisher: LucasBooks; 3 Rev Exp edition (October 3, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345420667
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345420664
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1.3 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis book is awesome
By Kristen Saunders on January 24, 2004
Format: Paperback
I got this book around the time it came out, and 3 years later it is still the first book I go to for Star Wars look ups. Its biggest problem is that it is dated and cuts off right after Vector Prime, so it is not much help for looking up things in the New Jedi Order. That being said, it is still very valid and apart from the NJO and various newer comic book series, it covers pretty much everything. This book is a must for any serious Star Wars reader, and I highly recommend it as such. I would like to see a new edition with up-to-date material released after Episode III comes out.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis book is almost like a Star Wars encyclopedia
By A Customer on April 28, 1997
Format: Paperback
I loved this book. I am a 12 year old Star Wars fan. I don't read the kiddie books, I read the adult novels. This book has told me every thing I want to know and more. I advise people who buy this book not to try to read the whole thing, it is better to use it like an encyclopedia
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1.0 out of 5 starsThis third edition is truly a rip-off!
By Nathan on October 5, 2000
Format: Paperback
OK, what have we got here? To cover six years worth of Star Wars continuity since the last edition of the Guide, we get around 100 pages of new materiel. Except it isn't new. The author made a point to include materiel fom The Phantom Menace and Vector Prime, but other than that it seems nothing released in the last 2-3 years made it in here! No material from Allston's X-wing books, no Union, no prequel-era stuff except for the movie itself. While there is a bit about Kyle Katarn from the Dark Forces game, nothing about his role in the sequel, Jedi KNight, which came out about four years ago. There are virtually no new pictures, most of them are merely lifted from the Essential Guides.
But perhaps the biggest problem is in the organization. Gone are the categorical indeces of aliens, droids, ships, planets, creatures, etc... which were so helpful at the beginning of Edition 2, gone is even a rudimentary timeline, absent is the galactic map which has been gracing most of the more recent Star Wars fiction. Also gone is the neat seperation in the earlier edition between "canon" materiel -- that established in the movies and their novelizations -- and just about everything else.
For about twice the price of this book you can get the Star Wars Encyclopedia, which has more materiel, many, many more color photos and illustrations, and better organization of materiel. I recommend that you do. This book is a waste of time and money. It was three years outdated when it came out, overpriced at that.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood, solid Star Wars guide, update forthcoming.....
By Alex Diaz-Granados on April 9, 2004
Format: Paperback
Because the "Star Wars Universe" this guide covers is as vast and populated as George Lucas' "galaxy far, far away," it's impossible for even the most prolific researcher/writer to keep up with all the new additions as books, games, collectibles and even animated episodes appear almost on a monthly basis. For even though the Star Wars canon (read, "official version") only includes the six filmed Episodes, their novelizations, and their direct off-shoots (such as the National Public Radio dramatizations and the Cartoon Network's Clone Wars miniseries), there are also tons of Lucasfilm-authorized Expanded Universe novels, comic books, and games (roleplaying and computer games) that have added planets, political entities, droids, weapons, spacecraft, alien and human characters that go beyond Lucas' filmed works.
In some ways, Bill Slavicsek's 596 page A (as in A-3DO, a droid once owned by the Jedi Knight Andur Sunrider) to Z (ZZ-4Z, yet another droid, this time once Han Solo's mechanical housekeeper, last seen recovering from an attack by Boba Fett) book serves as a "poor man's Star Wars Encyclopedia," since the format is very similar and essentially covers the same territory -- down to the style of the entries -- as Steven J. Sansweet's more expensive and even more outdated (circa 1998) reference book.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent reference to the Star Wars Universe
By Andrew on December 5, 2002
Format: Paperback
The Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy is a handy reference for any fan of the books and movies. Because it was published in the year 2000, it came after a wave of new books and a new movie, thus making it up to date up until that time.
While not as complete as the Star Wars Encyclopedia, it has information that SWE did not cover. However, it does not contain the wealth of information that SWE has, and the illistrations are black and white, whereas the Encyclopeida's are color.
The Guide covers new information in the Han Solo Trilogy, the X-Wing series, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the New Jedi Order (Just Vector Prime) and several other novels.
So, this is just right if you are a fan that likes up to date information.
However,it is already out of date and does not contain everything that is new. There is nothing about the second and third parts of the X-Wing series, nothing beyond Vector Prime and several other books that are already out. Hopefully there'll be a new editon in the near future.
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