The ‘Star Wars’ Prequel Trilogy Novelizations Get Brand New Paperback Editions 

Although Star Wars is back on the big screen again with Mandalorian & Grogu, fans can revisit some of the classic stories in a format they may not have expected. Penguin Random House publishing has released new editions of the novelization tie-ins for the Star Wars prequel trilogy. 

When Star Wars first hit the scene, audiences followed the daring adventures of Luke Skywalker, a farmboy turned Rebel hero who is trained as a Jedi to combat the evil Darth Vader. When the prequels began in 1999 with The Phantom Menace, George Lucas brought the focus back decades to when Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker, began his training as a Jedi, and chronicled the story through the days of the Clone Wars and his eventual fall to the Dark Side. 

As Screenrant noted, novelizations for the Star Wars films was not a new concept by the prequels, and remained that way through the sequels: every major chapter in the Skywalker Saga received a novelization. Each of these three came out alongside their respective films, now released with new cover art depicting the major characters from the films. The art is very much in line with what Penguin Random House did just last year for the reissues of the Original Trilogy novelizations. 

Both R. A. Salvatore and Matthew Stover, scribes of the Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith novelizations, respectively, have both worked on other Star Wars books back when the prequels were actively coming out. Salvatore wrote The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime in 1999, which served as the first book in the New Jedi Order series, which would span a whopping 19 books. Stover would contribute to New Jedi Order with Traitor in 2002, one of the most acclaimed from the series. He’d go on to write Shatterpoint in 2003, along with its follow-up Luke Skywalker And The Shadows Of Mindor in 2008. Stover’s Revenge Of The Sith even got a rerelease last year to commemorate the film’s 20th anniversary, with a limited edition hardcover complete with new artwork, as well as annotations from Stover himself. 

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