Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace
A bestselling fantasy novelist adapts the most scrutinised film of the decade.
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A bestselling fantasy novelist adapts the most scrutinised film of the decade.
The novelization that tries to make the romance work, and very nearly does.
The novelization that is better than the film it novelizes.
The first Star Wars book, published six months before the first Star Wars film.
Better than its reputation, and the first prose to state the thing out loud.
The one with the extra Anakin, and a surprisingly interior Vader.
The rare novelization that adds an argument rather than deleted scenes.
The man who ghostwrote the first Star Wars book comes back for the seventh film.
An expanded edition that argues with the film in the film’s favour.
The expanded edition that has to explain rather more than a novelization usually does.