The Best Star Wars Novelization Is Getting a New Special Edition

Star Wars fans are used to having their favorite pieces of the franchise given upgrades, and now that same idea is coming to a bookstore near you. Lucasfilm just announced that for the 20th anniversary, it will be releasing a deluxe edition of Matthew Stover’s novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, widely regarded as one of, if not the, best novelizations in the series and possibly the medium. “We couldn’t be more excited to publish this incredible deluxe edition of the Revenge of the Sith novelization,” Tom Hoeler of Random House World told Collider, which broke the news. “It has been thrilling to work with author Matthew Stover and Lucasfilm to create a fully annotated edition that gives readers unprecedented insight to the creation of this masterpiece. Across nearly 50 years of Star Wars books, it stands alone, and even among film novelizations its approach to adapting characters and story from screen to page is unique. Two decades later, this novelization is ... Read full article.