Club Jade

Ewan of SWBooks.co.uk spotted the blurb for Denning’s Fate of the Jedi: Vortex in the Random House Fall catalog. It’s somewhat spoilery, so highlight to read:

In Book Six of the bestselling nine-book Star Wars Fate of the Jedi series, the suspense crescendoes as the Skywalkers and their treacherous Sith allies race against time to discover the origins of the mysterious Force-entity known as Abeloth. When they begin to uncover secrets better kept hidden from mortal minds, no one is surprised to see the uneasy partnership erupt into violence. But they are surprised at where the investigation leads: to the home of the reclusive Fallanassi, who may hold in their hands the future of the Jedi Order itself.

Also appearing in the catalog are The Force Unleashed II (Pencil in November 2010 for the game and October 5 for the book;) and a first look at the cover art for Bonnie Burton’s craft book. (Two words: Lightsaber scissors.)

We’re also finally getting the skinny on Visions, with thanks to Eddie. Blurbs have appeared on both the regular and deluxe editions on Amazon. Here’s what the regular has to say:

Star Wars Visions collects a wealth of art – hand-picked by George Lucas – produced by a variety of artists, illustrators, designers and cartoonists, working across all genres and styles to celebrate their favourite characters, themes, worlds and moments from the Star Wars Universe. The full list of contributors is to be released incrimentally over the 6 months leading up to publication, with sneak previews, on starwars.com.

The deluxe blurb gives a list of artists, and the information that it will come with 50 additional “paintings and illustrations,” which is just mean. But such is life.

And while we’re on the subject, President Obama bought a copy of Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy in Iowa City today as a gift for the son of press secretary Robert Gibbs. Hat-tip to reader Greg for the photo link!

Babble magazine goes inside the world of pop-up books with Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. Reinhart is responsible for 2007′s A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy, above.

• The Death Star is one of io9′s top five high-tech lairs of evil masterminds.

• SF Site reviews Death Star.
• Lost’s Jorge Garcia entranced by A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy
• Mark Hamill and Natalie Portman in Heckler Spray’s worst cinematic hairdos. Bonus appearance by Christopher Lee!

Matthew Reinhart talks about A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy on Borders website. (via)

I just love Halloween in the stores. The Halloween decorations are put on clearance. The Thanksgiving stuff is on sale. And the Christmas decorations are fresh on the shelves.

It’s also the time when we get the year’s batch of Star Wars gift books. Y’know, the ones that are just a little more expensive and, thus, in a wonderful price range for someone looking to get you something special.

One of those books is A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy by Matthew Reinhart.

Get out your thesaurus, because screaming out “Cool!” for all the times you’re wowed by this book will take the shine off that word.

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TOS goes inside Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy.

Uh-oh – Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy shares a release date with Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (And So Can You!)? Pity the poor pop-ups!

George Lucas attends Salesforce.com user conference and gives keynote, talking about education and technology. The company has registered force.com. Forget Lucas – what does Philip Wise think?

• The BBC returns to ILM.

• Poll: BloggingStocks pits George Lucas against Steven Spielberg.
• You’ve just been dying to know Natalie Portman’s prequel makeup secrets, right? (via)

Fandom

• Vic and Lisa’s Star Wars home theatre gets some love from Gizmodo. Famous on the internets!

• The 501st has put troopers on all seven continents this year. Next up: The moon!

Expanded Universe

• Wired’s Geekdad blog gets an early look at A Pop Up Guide to the Galaxy. (via)

• Timothy Zahn will be at Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books next month.

Coming in October, Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy by Matthew Reinhart. Reinhart will be on hand at Celebration with a “Art of the Popup” presentation and some time in the Family room.