UPDATE! First Official Books for Star Wars: The Force Awakens Revealed!
The guys from jedi-bibliothek found on an online catalogue a very interesting list of new Star Wars books. Most of them are about Rebels but they also found what appears to be the first official book for The Force Awakens. Check out the list after the jump…
The books are dated for the second half of 2015 and the first half of 2016. Here is what they found from the catalogue.
Excerpts from jedi-bibliothek:
- Star Wars Rebels: Servants of the Empire # 4 by Jason Fry (October 6, 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 6.99 USD 9,781,484,716,618)
- World of Reading Star Wars AT-AT Attack! (Level 1) (November 3, 2015, paperback, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 3.99 USD 9,781,484,705,490)
- LEGO Star Wars Rebels Unite! (September 2015, Dorling Kindersley, 9780241186824)
- Star Wars: Episode VII Picture Book (Dec. 22, 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 16.99 USD 9,781,484,705,582)
- World of Reading Star Wars: Episode VII: Level 1 Reader (December 22, 2015, paperback, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 3.99 USD 9,781,484,704,806)
- Journey to Episode VII: Princess Leia Middle Grade Novel (September 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 12.99 USD 9,781,484,724,972)
- Journey to Episode VII: Han Solo Middle Grade Novel (September 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 12.99 USD 9,781,484,724,958)
- Journey to Episode VII: Luke Skywalker Middle Grade Novel (September 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 12.99 USD 9,781,484,724,965)
- Journey to Episode VII: The Fall of the Empire / The Rise of the rebellion (September 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 17.99 USD 9,781,484,724,989)
- Star Wars: Episode VII Doodle Book (September 2015, Paperback, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 12.99 USD 9,781,484,725,047)
- Star Wars Episode VII Book and Magnetic Play Set (September 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 14.99 USD 9,781,484,729,410)
In addition, they also found a mysterious entry, which reads as follows:
- Telegraph Hill Movie 9 × 9 (December 22, 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 8.99 USD 9,781,484,704,936)
Also there will be young adult novel with a character from TFA in the lead role:
- Star Wars Episode VII Character Novel (December 22, 2015, Hardcover, Disney Lucasfilm Press, $ 12.99 USD 9,781,484,728,222)
For the full list make sure to visit the 2 gold jedi-bibliothek links above.
Also tell us what you think about these titles in the comments section.
Special thanks to MagnarTheGreat for the heads up.
UPDATE!
Also jedi-bibliothek found a few more interesting future releases from Del Rey / LucasBooks.
Some of the books are not yet titled. Three of them are (probably placeholder names):
“The Duelist 2″
October 2015: Hardcover, LucasBooks, $28.00 USD – ISBN 9780345540935
June 2016: Paperback, LucasBooks, $7,99 USD – ISBN 9780345540928
Author: Christie Golden
“The Duelist 3″
March 2016: Hardcover, LucasBooks, $28.00 USD – ISBN 9780345540942
Author: Christie Golden
“Round Table Trilogy #2″
June 2016: Hardcover, LucasBooks, $27.00 USD – 9780345542151
Author: Troy Denning
Founder of SWNN, MNN and The Cantina forums.
Born on April 24, 1980.
Impressive. Most impressive
Those “Journey to Episode VII” books have me very exited! That is exactly what I want, books that explain some of the backstory for how the original characters got to where they are in TFA.
“The Fall of the Empire / The Rise of the rebellion” is especially interesting as it suggests (if that is the final title) that it is still called the “Rebellion” after the fall of the Empire, at least for awhile.
I always figured it would become known as The Alliance if it became the dominant government rather than The New Republic.
Quick off-topic.
Do you still have the “you’re posting too fast” issue? We’ve made some changes.
I didn’t have trouble with that one.
Or this one.
But I do tend to accidentally hit the Like button when I hit edit or save even though the cursor is over the edit button.
Same EXACT thing happens to me.
Including the “posting too fast” nonsense.
At first, I thought it was VH subtlely banning me
when none of my messages got through. lol
Now I see it’s not just me that this is happening to.
Do you still have this issue or it was before?
Possibly neither govern outright, so the Galactic Civil War rages on and the core elements of both factions remain the same, except that both have lost their figureheads: Palpatine, Vader, and Luke. It also allows for the film to appeal strongly to the nostalgic status quo of the OT. The Force Awakens, aka The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same.
You can be sure a handful of ‘notable’ authors are currently hard at work on new novels set between the OT and ST. Notable as in prior EU talent. That’s another announcement though.
Or maybe this rebellion is now the remains of the falling empire, facing the Alliance…
Oooo. Good point!
Release date?
The release dates are there in the descriptions.
Woops, didn’t read that correctly… Hmm I remember back when TPM hit, getting a picture book some months in advance, still have it somewhere.
Being a lover of all things AT-AT, title number two is interesting. But the big fish is of course the title Journey to Episode VII. If only we had a copy right now. Heck, I’d settle for the dust jacket and a couple of pages…
Hope that Dorling Kindersley still retain their publishing licence … their Visual Dictionaries and Cross-section books are amazing and define SW film tie-in literature to me.
So don’t expect the Journey to Episode 7 novels to be deep intense politically engaging stories. they are middle-grade books which is targeted to 8-12 year olds. So we are probably going to get a much lighter version of a New Hope.
I have never known an 8 year old who went to middle school.
I could be reading too much into things, but the fact that Han and Leia have separate books might be very telling about whether or not they are together. If they are together the whole time, then the books would be very redundant, but not totally redundant. I might be reading too much into that.
Nah. I think you’re right. Their relationship needs to be dysfunctional anyway. If they were all lovey dovey, it would be boring and dumb.
No pictures, it didn’t happen.
cool… very cool
Bear in mind these descriptions are not a solid basis for judging the books. The reference to the Rebellion could easily be a marketing decision to tie the book in with OT, but has less to do with what the inside says. I’m not reading into the exact wording too much.
It’s kinda funny they’re doing an AT-AT book, considering where Daisy’s character lives (ALLEGEDLY). I guess they had a lot of details on the inside they wanna’ show off. The fact that Han and Leia have two separate books is kinda’ interesting too.
NOOO not Troy Denning he sucks ,Crucible was garbage !!
Also the only thing i care about will Matthew Stover write the VII novel.IF NOT fail !! His EP III Novel is a master piece.
Way ta water down the brand, Disney ….
I get the feeling that the ISBNs are real, but some of the titles (like The Duelist) and authors are holdovers from the old publishing schedule and not necessarily represent the actual books. The Duelist by Golden most likely refers to the canceled Sword of the Jedi trilogy, and the Roundtable Trilogy probably refers to the canceled FotJ followup. Those books are likely just placeholders for books in the new canon, possibly with different authors.
I hope the Force doesn’t awaken with bad morning breath.
The Force Awakens to rake in cash for Disney
after the failure of John Carter.
Will there be a concept art book?
Only thing I’d be interested in buying.
your preachin to the choir anonymous!
So many new books being released in USA, but here in Brazil is such a rare thing to happen ;-;.
Big deal man, cause they are just kids books. How can I read a kids book when I’m used to reading Game of thrones style of intelligent reading.
Balance
Rebels suck.
The Roubd Table book sounds super cool (I’m a Medieval/Arthurian Legends nut), as do the other books (especially the young adult Star Wars novel). 🙂
All they have to do is keep mentioning/posting the title and it’ll eventually grow on you.
[Spoiler Caution]
There were rebels on one side in the original trilogy.
There are rebels on the other side in the sequel trilogy.
INTERESTING that she is still called: “PRINCESS LEIA” ! of course she can not be Queen over a dead planet, but many have speculated that she would be supreme chancellor or something like that, but i guess that a possible new title will not be revealed until we see the movie… 🙂