Guild Wars : Ghosts of Ascalon Review

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(More customer reviews)Got my copy this morning, finished it by this afternoon. It was an engaging read. I think appreciation of it benefits from being an ArenaNet/Guild Wars fan, especially with the lore touches. If you've been following ArenaNet's gradual release of information about the upcoming Guild Wars 2, I think you'll really get the most out of this novel. I loved seeing this new and updated world of Tyria, along with just the right amount of touches and callbacks to the amazing lore and history of the original. The characters were well-realized and the various new races quite intriguing. I think this will mostly appeal to existing fans or those that are interested in the new game...

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A Forest of Stars (The Saga of Seven Suns) Review

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(More customer reviews)In this chapter of the Saga is where the meat of the story really gets going. All the ground work laid in the previous books begins to pay off with. Great Battles and political intrigue and some new unexpected allies are on the horizon. This was not a let down.

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Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydrogues and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don't realize that these military robots have already exterminated their own makers - and may soon turn on humanity. Once the rulers of an expanding empire, humans have become the galaxy's most endangered species. But the sudden appearance of incredible new beings will destroy all balances of power. Now for humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin...and genocide may be the result.

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Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back The Marvel Comics Version Review

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(More customer reviews)Marvel released four Star Wars "paperback" illustrated comics between 1977 and 1983.
These included:
Star Wars
Nov 1977
0-345-27492-X
The Empire Strikes Back
May 1980
0-9604146-0-6

Four New Adventures in Full Color
Nov 1981
0-9604146-8-1
Star Wars 2: World of Fire
Oct 1982
0-939766-14-0
Return of the Jedi
May 1983
0-939766-58-2
Color.
Your Marvel collection isn't truly complete without "world of fire" and "four new adventures".
There are also many collectors who seek out THIS original release of the Empire Strikes Back adaption, for a rather unique variation. The 1st print of this comic book was released BEFORE the film was finished! The character of Yoda had been kept under tight wraps by Lucasfilm, and therefore only early production sketches had been seen by the artists. Those sketches depicted a VERY different looking Yoda, and that's the Yoda you will see in the 1st edition of this comic. In fact, it's the ONLY Marvel adaption of Empire that has the Yoda variant (the regular Marvel run and the magazine version did NOT have the Yoda variant).
Later, reprint editions of this paperback corrected the artwork. Serious collectors will certainly want a 1st edition in their collection!
JM

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