Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy

THE STAR WARS ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars GalaxyYesterday, after the long wait, I received the Star Wars Encyclopedia, which updates and expands the “Ultimate Guide” series of books. “Ultimately,” it is really great and for those with funding and in the fullness of fandom, I would recommend a purchase. However, let the buyer “beware”, or better, “be aware” of what they are getting..I must preface more remarks by saying I just paged and skimmed the book. I am not, after all, in the habit of reading encyclopedias in their entirety, straight through.It is a wonderful piece of work—with colorful, beautiful picture or drawings for each entry. Many lesser items are contained on a page, but the more import characters, creatures, locations, weapons and vehicles (cf. the Table of Contents) have a full page.Each entry has a title, of course. And all the descriptions appear to be good from my sampling. I looked for an entry on one of my favorite minor characters, the janitor Opeepit from the animated series Star Wars Resistance and did not see it. This brings up two points. One is, the entries while including subjects from cartoons, comics, games, films, canon and non-canon sources, do not tell me which source or sources the items come from. Second, I went to look up Opeepit from the index. Gratefully there is indeed an index! And Opeepit is on the top of page 198. What is especially neat about this is that instead of entries being listed alphabetical, they are grouped in somewhat similar times. Thus a number of characters from Star Wars Resistance. Further, I noticed that in Locations, However with the index, one finds that the entry for Lars Moisture farm is placed several pages later. There may be a reason it wasn’t include in the main entry for the planet, but it is there. Having seen the original model for the Incom Corporation Tri-Wing in a car museum in Los Angles last year, I checked additionally in the index,to see if it was there. —and there it was, listed on page 398.. But because the entries are from the point of view that this mythology is “real”, there was no mention of development in collaboration with Porsche. Thus the entries are more or less from “inside” the mythology, the Star Wars worldsview, if you will. There are no mention of actors—well especially excepting the wonderful foreword by Rosario Dawson talking about her experience with Ahsoka as she praises the book at the end of her contribution.This is also one heavy volume. That is necessary because of the generosity of the graphics and the effort at completeness and the presumed desire to have all in one volume. Yet due to that, I have a hunch that one must treat the book with care because continual consultation if not careful, would tend to lead to text block separation from the cover material. I could be wrong but I suspect not. (Speaking of the covers, excellent illustrations by Brian Rood!).There it is—a great work, with a fullness of illustration and entry along with easy access to check things with the index. For some something beyond the digital realm, something you can curl up with on a winter’s (or rainy summer’s) day, this book is a welcome addition to shelf (or room or barn!) of Star Wars memories.

My star war obsessed kids look at this daily, and I find it very interesting as well. It’s huge and heavy. Print is small to fit everything in, but this book has everything! Nicely divided between locations, vehicles, technology, and characters. Great photos and covers all aspects of Star Wars-movies, cartoons, miniseries, etc. Best if you are buying for someone who can read well.

Found this at a Star Wars exhibit for $50 but couldn’t bring myself to spend that much. But lucky me found it on Amazon for $20 and I couldn’t be happier. The condition is perfect and the information inside is amazing. It’s a stunning book and the perfect addition to any Star Wars fans collection. Cannot wait to spend years enjoying it with my boys and passing it on to their kids one day!

I went to the book store. I was about to buy it until I saw the price on Amazon, twenty dollars! Originally for fifty. From now on, I'll buy books online.As for the book itself, it came in great condition. Hard cover. Heavy. But with lots of great pictures. I don't have Disney Plus, so I don't know what's going on and what I've missed. Thankfully, the book covers the majority of stuff including characters, planets, vehicles, weapons, clothing, etc.The book is filled with a short summary of what you watch on TV and in the movies. It gives lots of detail into the Star Wars saga, including things I may have not noticed or missed.I love reading Encyclopedia's, non-fiction and fictional books when I'm eating dinner, sitting outside, in the car, sitting on the couch or in bed.Why I prefer books over online? Books doesn't require internet or battery. You can read it immediately, anytime you want. With online books, you need internet and battery life drains away.For twenty dollars, you get a huge book, with over 400 pages of Star Wars information. This is a must-buy for Star Wars fans.

Great book for any Star Wars fan. However, some of the pictures were small but gave great descriptions. The book is heavy and packed with a lot of fun things to read!

This is a BIG, HEAVY, THICK, and BEAUTIFUL book. It's large, hardcovered, and the pages are of a good quality glossy type. I've been an "above casual" Star Wars fan for almost as long as the original trilogy has existed, but was never motivated to really learn the lore behind this world that George Lucas created until now. This book is jam packed with so much Star Wars information (OLD and NEW cannon) that I never knew. I'm excited to finally become a Star Wars "geek"!

Nephew immediately sat down to talk about photos and info

Expensive, but exactly as described.