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(More customer reviews)I bought this for my son even before we saw the exhibit it is tied to at the local science museum. He got it in 1st grade and pretty much likes looking at the pictures, but now that he is starting to read it is opening up more information to him. There is a nice balance of science without killing the main attraction to kids (and most people) which is Star Wars. For now he is just reading captions, but if his love of Star Wars continues (as I expect it will), he will end up knowing more than me as he devours books for information on the subject.
In terms of quality, it is softcover so it has gotten some folds and bends from laying on the floor or being slept on in bed, but it is a solid build, great color photos, and tons of information.
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For almost thirty years, the words "Star Wars" have summoned images of spaceships, super-weapons, and futuristic visions of all kinds. But George Lucas's immensely popular, vividly imagined blockbusters of life in "a galaxy far, far away" have often anticipated real-life technology right here on Earth-and this fascinating, visually irresistible book probes the amazing interface between movie magic and practical science. Today's scientists are taking Star Wars fictions and turning them into fact; travel entrepreneurs are making plans for commercial space flight, and high-tech mag-lev trains defy gravity to zoom along like Luke Sky-walker's landspeeder. As the beloved C-3PO observes in his introduction to the book, robots are now a reality, and microscopic nanobots are already performing surgery internally. In the next twenty years, human soldiers will wear exoskeletal armor like Imperial stormtroopers and carry laser weapons as lethal as any light-saber, while orbiting satellites spy on the enemy and accurately pinpoint targets thousands of miles away. These exciting advances, often fraught with peril, are explored by the book's technological experts, who consider the risky implications and possible consequences of their inventions. A perfect souvenir for visitors to the exhibition, now on a three-year multi-city tour, as well as the millions who have made Star Wars one of the most successful epics in entertainment history, this is a book guaranteed to delight film fans and the technologically savvy alike.
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