Episode 39 – Moving Target – A Princess Leia Adventure

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Time for another book review! 

This time around we run down a quick YA novel in the Journey to Force Awakens series called Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. 

If you’d like to grab the book yourself, check it out on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Moving-Target-Princess-Adventure-Journey/dp/1484724976

Next time, we’re sticking in the same series with Smuggler’s Run: A Han Solo Adventure. Before that though, we’re going to have a show where we discuss the second half of Rebels season 2!

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Episode 38 – BONUS – The Star Trek Stacks

Hey Everyone!

In the episode 37 pre-show, we had a fun little 10-ish minute chat about our other love, Star Trek. We thought you guys would get a kick out of it so here it is in the feed!

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Sure, it ain’t Star Wars but we love to talk.

Enjoy and we’ll see you next time with a full show discussing Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure.

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Episode 37 – The Hutt Gambit

Better late then never, it’s time for a book review!

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This time we’re continuing our way through A.C. Crispin’s Han Solo trilogy with book 2, The Hutt Gambit.

Before that though, we discuss a few news stories:

Star Wars: The Force Awakens DVD and Blu-ray release
http://www.denofgeek.com/dvd-bluray/star-wars-the-force-awakens/38745/star-wars-the-force-awakens-dvd-and-blu-ray-release

J.J. Abrams explains why he won’t direct another Star Wars film
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/15/jj-abrams-tells-wont-direct-another-star-wars-film

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS’ Daisy Ridley Being Eyed For ‘Lara Croft’ In TOMB RAIDER Reboot
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/tomb_raider/star-wars-the-force-awakens-daisy-ridley-being-eyed-for-lara-croft-in-a131925

Indy 5 Announcement
http://deadline.com/2016/03/steven-spielberg-harrison-ford-team-up-for-indiana-jones-5-disney-sets-july-2019-release-1201720725/

Then we get into our standard spoiler-free and then spoiler-filled discussion of the book, ending off with our ratings.

If you’d like to read it, grab it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hutt-Gambit-Star-Wars-Trilogy/dp/0553574167

Next time, we’re going back to some newer stuff with Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. It’s a shorter read, so we’ll likely cover it next show in place of our usual shoot the bull session!

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Episode 36 – The Show About Nothing

Time for episode 36! Just Chris and Joe this time around as Jen had something come up.

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We chat about quite a few things including the recent announcement of episode 8 filming, casting, Chris’ recent travels, movies and TV and a whole lot more!

Next time we’ll be back in the Legends timeline with The Hutt Gambit, the second book in A.C. Crispin’s Han Solo trilogy.

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Episode 35 – The Novels of the Force Awakens

After all the hoopla of The Force Awakens, we get back to what we do best, talk about novels!

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This time, Chris and Jen (Joe’s busy, sadly) discuss a double header: the novelization of The Force Awakens (http://www.amazon.com/The-Force-Awakens-Star-Wars/dp/1101965495/) by Alan Dean Foster and Before the Awakening (http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens/dp/148472822X) by Greg Rucka.

We discuss and spoil the books just as always.

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Episode 34 – Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good

Here’s episode 34 where the three of us get together and shoot the breeze about some stuff!

Warning: We’re still talking about Force Awakens, so there are still spoilers! Beware!

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We talk about our additional viewings of the movie and another entry in our ongoing series about cinema etiquette.

George Lucas and his “white slavers” comment: http://www.projectcasting.com/news/george-lucas-white-slavers/

25 “unanswered” Force Awakens questions: http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-questions/

Emails, voicemails and more!

Next time, we’ll be doing a book double header, covering both the novelization of the movie by Alan Dean Foster (http://www.amazon.com/The-Force-Awakens-Star-Wars/dp/1101965495) and Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka and Phil Noto (http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-Awakening/dp/148472822X)

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Episode 33 – The Stacks Awakens!!

The time has come! Episode VII is here!

*** SPOILER WARNING *** SPOILER WARNING *** SPOILER WARNING ***

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This is our fresh and spoiler filled review of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

We give our general thoughts on the movie and then discuss the crap out of it before we read a bunch of your emails!

Next time, we’ll likely be covering the novelization of the movie by Alan Dean Foster. 

The wait is over! Star Wars is back!

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Episode 32 – Battlefront: Twilight Company

It’s time for another book review! This time we’re tackling the new game tie-in novel Battlefront: Twilight Company by Alexander Freed. 

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First, we chat a little bit about our thoughts, hopes and fears for The Force Awakens, which opens in less then 5 days!

Then we get into it, first with a spoiler free synopsis and our spoiler free opinions.

Then we get into it beat by beat and discuss our thoughts of the book.

If you’d like to read the book yourself, get it here: http://www.amazon.com/Battlefront-Twilight-Company-Star-Wars/dp/0345511212

Next time, we’ll be recording our reactions to The Force Awakens!

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Episode 31 – Ramblin’ Boys

In episode 31, Chris and Joe talk about a whole bunch of stuff including:

  • Renfest/Medieval Faire preparations.
  • Battlefront
  • The recent flood of Episode 7 TV spots.
  • The first five episodes of Rebels season 2
  • and finally, another top 5 list! This time, we talk about our top five non-Star Wars sci-fi novels of series.

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We end things off with a listener email and voicemail.

Next time, we’ll be covering the game tie-in novel, Battlefront: Twilight Company.

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Episode 30 – Lost Stars

This time around, we dive deep into the recently released young adult novel, Lost Stars by Claudia Gray.

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We do a little bit of news and then we get to it!

First we get into a quick spoiler-free summary and discussion. Then we make our way through the story, point by point.

If you’d like to read the book, you can get it here: http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens/dp/1484724984

Next time, we’ll be covering the game tie in novel, Battlefront: Twilight Company.

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