Three years ago, Del Rey put together a collection of forty short stories to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of A New Hope, offering viewers many different points of view of the story we know so well. And now, in 2020… brace yourselves because this may be shocking: they’ve done it again for the fortieth anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back with Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back. Even more shocking… it’s good, folks! It’s really good. (Can we do these for every Star Wars movie? Please?) Continue reading
Book Wars Pod, Episode 130: The Decor Here is Rocks
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This week on the pod, special guest @celestialintent returns to wrap up Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge A Crash of Fate by Zoraida Córdova. We talk about whether this book makes us want to go to Galaxy’s Edge IRL, the book’s connection to the films, and Córdova’s writing. We also bring back our (accidentally forgotten) Easter eggs segment!
Note: this is being released out of order from our other episodes on A Crash of Fate. You can find those in our catalog as episodes 127 and 128.
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Book Wars Pod explores the Star Wars universe through the franchise’s non-screen media: the canon novels, comics, and video games. Check out our guide to past episodes, and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and wherever else you cast your pods. You can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher for more great shows from our podcast network.
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for episode updates! Hosted by Chris Sedor, Kate Sedor, and Miranda Eldon. Audio and production by Kristen Sereci. Art by Joe Butera. Music by Podington Bear.
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Book Wars Pod, Episode 129: Good Pilot, Bad Decisions
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This week on the pod, special guest @RanaLaPine joins us to finally wrap up our discussion of Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse. We talk about how this book does (and mostly doesn’t) tie into The Rise of Skywalker, a set of functional parents (?! in MY Star Wars?), third party actors throughout the universe, and why we want Rebecca Roanhorse to write more Star Wars.
Note: this is being released out of order from our other episodes on Resistance Reborn. You can find those in our catalog as episodes 124, 125, and 126.
If you have the means and are able to do so, please continue to act and donate donate to help demand justice for BIPOC terrorized by police brutality and systemic racism.
For a list of black-owned bookstores to order from, now and always, click here.
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Book Wars Pod explores the Star Wars universe through the franchise’s non-screen media: the canon novels, comics, and video games. Check out our guide to past episodes, and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and wherever else you cast your pods. You can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher for more great shows from our podcast network.
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for episode updates! Hosted by Chris Sedor, Kate Sedor, and Miranda Eldon. Audio and production by Kristen Sereci. Art by Joe Butera. Music by Podington Bear.
This podcast has been brought to you in part by your support on Patreon!
Book Wars Pod, Episode 128: Don’t Drown, Not Sexy
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This week on the pod, @celestialintent returns to discuss the second half of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge A Crash of Fate by Zoraida Córdova (chapter 12 – end). We talk about the suspicious lack of the First Order, the rarity and beauty of telling a smaller story in the Star Wars universe, and ~teenage romance~.
If you have the means and are able to do so, please continue to act and donate donate to help demand justice for BIPOC terrorized by police brutality and systemic racism.
For a list of black-owned bookstores to order from, now and always, click here.
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Book Wars Pod explores the Star Wars universe through the franchise’s non-screen media: the canon novels, comics, and video games. Check out our guide to past episodes, and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and wherever else you cast your pods. You can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher for more great shows from our podcast network.
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for episode updates! Hosted by Chris Sedor, Kate Sedor, and Miranda Eldon. Audio and production by Kristen Sereci. Art by Joe Butera. Music by Podington Bear.
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Book Wars Pod, Episode 127: I Thought He Was Blue?
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This week on the pod, @celestialintent joins us in our first discussion of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge A Crash of Fate by Zoraida Córdova (start – chapter 11). We talk about who’s returning (and who’s new), life under the First Order, and plans gone awry. Adriana will join us throughout our reading, so stay tuned!
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Book Wars Pod explores the Star Wars universe through the franchise’s non-screen media: the canon novels, comics, and video games. Check out our guide to past episodes, and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and wherever else you cast your pods. You can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher for more great shows from our podcast network.
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for episode updates! Hosted by Chris Sedor, Kate Sedor, and Miranda Eldon. Audio and production by Kristen Sereci. Art by Joe Butera. Music by Podington Bear.
This podcast has been brought to you in part by your support on Patreon!
Book Wars Pod, Episode 126: What’s Up! This is Crimes!
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This week we continue our discussion on Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse (chapters 22-end). We discuss how Finn and Poe are definitely not, not at all, totally a couple, leaders who are so bad at their jobs that BOTH their underlings defect, and self-sacrifice running rampant in the franchise.
If you have the means and are able to do so, please continue to donate to help demand justice for BIPOC terrorized by police brutality and systemic racism.
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Book Wars Pod explores the Star Wars universe through the franchise’s non-screen media: the canon novels, comics, and video games. Check out our guide to past episodes, and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and wherever else you cast your pods. You can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher for more great shows from our podcast network.
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for episode updates! Hosted by Chris Sedor, Kate Sedor, and Miranda Eldon. Audio and production by Kristen Sereci. Art by Joe Butera. Music by Podington Bear.
This podcast has been brought to you in part by your support on Patreon!
Review: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising
When a character like Thrawn has been around for almost thirty year and been a well-loved part of both the Legends and new canon universes, you’d think you might know just about everything there is to know about him. Timothy Zahn hears your speculation, smiles, and then kindly tells you that you are wrong in the form of a novel. The first in a brand new Thrawn-centric trilogy, Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising reminds us that while we know Thrawn fairly well in his capacity as an officer in the Galactic Empire, we really know nothing about the person he was back in the Chiss Ascendancy. And oh boy are we going to learn.
While the Clone Wars are raging in another part the galaxy, the Chaos has its own problems or, more specifically, the Chiss Ascendancy has its own problems. After an unknown enemy attacks them, Supreme General Ba’kif assigns Senior Captain Thrawn to investigate the matter as captain of the Springhawk. It’s an assignment that can easily go poorly… and bring forth more trouble than any of them could have anticipated for both Thrawn personally and the Ascendancy as a whole. (Unless someone studies their art. Obviously.) Continue reading
Book Wars Pod, Episode 125: Jamming Boba Fett in Weird Places
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This week we continue our discussion on Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse (chapters 10-21). We talk about the drag-alongs our rag tag team from last week was able to drum up, the Resistance’s various teams’ inability to follow directions while on assignment, and our old friend, Ransolm Casterfo.
If you have the means and are able to do so, please donate to help demand justice for Jacob Blake, who was shot in the back multiple times by local police while trying to enter his vehicle in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday.
For a list of black-owned bookstores to order from, now and always, click here.
Book Wars Pod explores the Star Wars universe through the franchise’s non-screen media: the canon novels, comics, and video games. Check out our guide to past episodes, and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and wherever else you cast your pods. You can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher for more great shows from our podcast network.
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr for episode updates! Hosted by Chris Sedor, Kate Sedor, and Miranda Eldon. Audio and production by Kristen Sereci. Art by Joe Butera. Music by Podington Bear.
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Review: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark
Who would have thought that 2020 would be the Year of The Clone Wars especially back when the series was cancelled after the Disney acquisition? And yet the Year of The Clone Wars it continues to be as Disney-Lucasfilm Press bring us the middle grade anthology Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark featuring stores by Lou Anders, Preeti Chhibber, Zoraida Córdova, Jason Fry, Rebecca Roanhorse, Greg Van Eekhout, Tom Angleberger, E. Anne Convery, Sarah Beth Durst, Yoon Ha Lee, and Anne Ursu. Each story also features a gorgeous illustration by Ksenia Zelentsova with whose fan art you might already be familiar. Is this a book that fans of the show are going to love? Definitely! And if you’re not already a fan? Well, let’s dive into that. Continue reading
Book Wars Pod, Episode 124: He Likes His Chickens, He Hates the Humidity
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This week we start Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse. We talk about the book as a tie-in to other media (and whether it feels like a tie-in), what redemption might look like for some returning characters, some old friends being dragged back into war, and, of course, Leia.
During this episode, we reference the following past episodes and other media:
- BWP episodes 4-8 on Bloodline by Claudia Gray
- BWP episodes 33-35 on Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
- BWP episodes 42-46 on Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
- BWP episodes 58-61 on Last Shot by Daniel José Older
- The Poe Dameron comic book series written by Charles Soule and drawn by Phil Noto
For a list of black-owned bookstores to order from, now and always, click here.
Book Wars Pod explores the Star Wars universe through the franchise’s non-screen media: the canon novels, comics, and video games. Check out our guide to past episodes, and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and wherever else you cast your pods. You can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher for more great shows from our podcast network.
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr for episode updates! Hosted by Chris Sedor, Kate Sedor, and Miranda Eldon. Audio and production by Kristen Sereci. Art by Joe Butera. Music by Podington Bear.
This podcast has been brought to you in part by your support on Patreon!