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Star Wars is an American epic space-opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.This is a list of the many reference books that have been published to accompany the films, television series, and the Expanded Universe of books, comics and video games.
The collection Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens is part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens promotional campaign. Some stories were originally published as individual e-books, and later collected with other new stories. However, they were all published together as a book called Star Wars: Tales From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Directed-energy weapons (DEW) figure prominently in the Star Wars franchise, with the most common type referred to as lasers or blasters.The in-universe description for how these weapons function is that a high-energy gas is charged by a power cell and converted into plasma, which is fired as a coherent energy bolt at the enemy via magnetic bottle effect.
J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 The Hobbit and 1954–55 The Lord of the Rings novels inspired George Lucas's creation of Star Wars in 1977. An early draft for the 1977 Star Wars film is said to have included an exchange of dialogue between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker taken directly from the conversation between Gandalf and Bilbo in Chapter 1 of The Hobbit, where Bilbo/Luke says "Good morning!"
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Beginner Game [September, 2016]: The game is set before Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, during the New Republic era. Box set includes the 48-page Star Wars: The Force Awakens basic rule book, a 14-piece Star Wars: Roleplaying Game Dice set, and a set of 8 Destiny Tokens.
Star Wars Tales Volume 3; Star Wars Tales: Free Comic Book Day Edition; Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of the Force; Star Wars role-playing game; Star Wars vs. Star Trek; Star Wars: Ambush at Corellia; Star Wars: Assault at Selonia; Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction; Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two; Star Wars: Demolition; Star Wars ...
In his book Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku used gamma ray bursts as an evidence to illustrate that extremely powerful rayguns such as the Death Star's primary weapon in the Star Wars franchise do not violate known physical laws and theories. He further analyses the problem of rayguns' power sources.