The Force Awakens (Star Wars)

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The official novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the blockbuster film directed by J. J. Abrams • Includes two tie-in short stories: “The Perfect Weapon” by Delilah S. Dawson and “Bait” by Alan Dean Foster
 
More than thirty years ago, Star Wars burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the next adventures in this blockbuster saga are poised to captivate old and new fans alike—beginning with the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And alongside the cinematic debut comes the thrilling novel adaptation by New York Times bestselling science fiction master Alan Dean Foster.
 
Set years after Return of the Jedi, this stunning new action-packed adventure rockets us back into the world of Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Luke Skywalker, while introducing a host of exciting new characters. Darth Vader may have been redeemed and the Emperor vanquished, but peace can be fleeting, and evil does not easily relent. Yet the simple belief in good can still empower ordinary individuals to rise and meet the greatest challenges.
 
So return to that galaxy far, far away, and prepare yourself for what happens when the Force awakens. . . .

Praise for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
 
“Like all the best novelizations, Alan Dean Foster’s adaptation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens enriches the movie experience. The novel goes beyond simply giving us insight into the characters’ thoughts, with plenty of additional scenes painting a broader picture of the galaxy.”—New York Daily News
 
“Fast-moving, atmospheric and raises goose-bumps at just the right moments. [Foster] not only evokes entire onscreen worlds . . . he also gives us glimpses of an even more vast, unseen universe.”The Washington Post
 
“Was my experience of the film enriched by the book? Yes. No question. Is the novelization worth reading? Yes. . . . Foster has written a book that captures the spirit of the film, while presenting additional information that helps answer some of the questions that linger.”Coffee with Kenobi

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4.5
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Stink Pickle
May 8, 2016
Having previously read ADF's other Star Wars work, I was really looking forward to this novel. Boy was I wrong!! Calling this book tedious would be paying a compliment to it. Some of the wording in this story is ridiculous. Why overdress a phrase such as "Han Solo's hirsute companion " instead of " Han Solo's hairy friend"? That would make more sense to the average reader in my opinion. And other than a handful of minor insights, it seems as if ADF simply wrote the novel as he was watching the movie.
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Greg Wotton
July 22, 2016
I guess I just prefer books with complete sentences. Why write books like this when the genre has historically demanded better? All I see are fragments, dangling participles, poor wording, and appalling grammar, stitched together around a poor attempt at story telling. Sure, those things can be effective if you're writing dialogue and defining a character, but they do not belong in narration. I had to run sections through a readability test because I couldn't believe it is really that bad, but I was proven wrong. Some passages scored even less than Grade Four!
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Ian Jones
January 18, 2016
This book ends marks the end of a lifelong fan. All previous books are now obsolete. Bye Mara, Jacen and Jaina. Thanks all you authors who created a universe beyond the movies. I wish JJ didn't flush all your great stories. This book is a total rip off of "a new hope".next movie will probably have a time machine so JJ can give jedi wings and make Vader a good guy. Totally predictable. Zero character development. Weird sentence structure throughout.
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About the author

Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films, including Transformers, Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona.

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