Recently a journalist named Jeff Salamon contacted me about to get a feel for what I though about Aaron Allston’s books; I never heard back from him but I recently googled him and found this article in the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. Nice to know he did get his piece out there. This is what I sent him earlier in May:

StarWarsShop.com has a lot of merchandise from the Celebration; the afghan rug and the water bottle are classics! [...]

Episode I: Darth Maul Journal
by Dave Wolverton
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SYNOPSIS

Episode One Journal – Darth Maul is exactly that: the “diary” of Darth Maul, dealing mostly with the events of “Star Wars – Episode One: The Phantom Menace”. Darth Maul records his take on all of the happenings in TPM,

What I expected -

A Complete Star Wars reference. With info on every aspect of the films. And only the films. No expanded universe; no comics. Just the original films. With details on little gadgets and characters that had small but significant screen time; and new insights into the aspects we knew well. I wanted good pictures of the little things, schematics, and in general a complete source of information for the first three films.

What I got -

At first I was a bit skeptical over it’s size. It was too thin. I wondered what they got into that small a book that was of any significance. At first look, I was bit disappointed. It didn’t have the detail I

Agents of Chaos: Hero’s Trial and Agents of Chaos: Jedi Eclipse are the fourth and fifth books in a 5-year story arc introducing a new threat to the Star Wars Universe that comes from beyond the galactic rim.

Vector Prime is the first book in a 5-year story arc introducing a new threat to the Star Wars Universe that comes from beyond the galactic rim.