The Best Star Wars Novel Is Getting a 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

There's nary surer mode to grapple with one's mortality successful 2025 than to recognize that Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is present 20 years old. But the metallic lining determination is that the movie is returning to theaters successful May arsenic portion of Lucasfilm's day celebration. And not lone that, but writer Matthew Stover's amazingly fantabulous Revenge of the Sith novelization is besides getting a 20th day rerelease (you tin preorder it astatine Amazon).

As revealed by Collider, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is getting a caller Deluxe Edition hardcover owed retired successful October. In summation to caller screen creation and upgrades similar reddish foil borderline pages and a removable acetate jacket, the Deluxe Edition includes implicit 170 caller annotations by Stover.

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“We couldn’t beryllium much excited to people this unthinkable deluxe variation of the Revenge of the Sith novelization," said Tom Hoeler, Editorial Director of Fiction and Special Projects for Random House World, successful a statement. "It has been thrilling to enactment with writer Matthew Stover and Lucasfilm to make a afloat annotated variation that gives readers unprecedented penetration to the instauration of this masterpiece. Across astir 50 years of Star Wars books, it stands alone, and adjacent among movie novelizations its attack to adapting characters and communicative from surface to leafage is unique. Two decades later, this novelization is arsenic essential, enduring, and influential – connected readers and creators – arsenic it has ever been. Bringing the publication backmost to hardcover successful a stunning deluxe keepsake variation is simply a cleanable mode to observe 20 years of Revenge of the Sith.”

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: Episode III - Deluxe Edition (Hardcover)

For those who person ne'er work Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization, the publication is wide regarded arsenic being 1 of the champion Star Wars novels, arsenic good arsenic being superior to the movie itself. While it mostly follows the crippled of George Lucas' screenplay, the publication greatly embellishes galore scenes and subplots and offers a deeper look into the minds of characters similar Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Count Dooku. The publication besides relies connected a recurring strategy of second-person narration that stylistically sets it isolated from the remainder of the Star Wars line. Case successful point, the pursuing transition offers a overmuch antithetic instrumentality connected Anakin's tragic reawakening arsenic Darth Vader:

By comparison, here's however the movie handles that scene:

And that's wherefore sometimes it pays to ace unfastened a book.

The Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith novelization is disposable successful paperback and audiobook signifier now, with the Deluxe Edition hardcover releasing connected October 14. You tin preorder a transcript connected Amazon.

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