Star Wars: Death Star

A Bantam Sprectra Book/Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Written by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry

Copyright 2007 by Lucasfilm Ltd.

Death Star by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry is about the construction of the Death Star project, just before the movie Star Wars: A New Hope. The book covers the heavy construction, logistics, personnel, resources, and politics that the movie would never have time to show about a moon-sized space station.

The book gives you more of an idea of how big and complicated the Death Star really is. The characters who inhabit the Death Star makes you realize that most of the people who were occupying and building the Death Star were just ordinary people, such as architects, librarians, and merchants caught up in the Empire's aggressive desire to build the space station - as well as prisoners and slaves that are used to build the Death Star. It could sometimes be difficult to match the pictures you have built up in your mind when reading about the Death Star - with the scenes of the movie when such scenes overlapped in the book. It is almost of a disappointment when most of the characters in the book - who are minor characters in the story - eventually meet and come together, considering the Death Star is the size of a moon. I wanted all of these characters just residing and working on various parts of this vast moon-sized station, and never having to meet each other - just as people who live and work in the same city have never met each other. Other than that, the book is pretty much satisfying about what the massive Death Star really was all about.

Pancho
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