On the Death Star... no one can hear you scream. Taking some chances, Del Ray Books is going to release the first Star Wars themed horror novel! Deathtroopers by Joe Schreiber will be available this Halloween. You can find the full size cover art over on StarWars.com.
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This Halloween, Star Wars publishing goes someplace very new and very scary, with the release of the first Star Wars horror novel, Deathtroopers, by Joe Schreiber.
Deathtroopers is currently slated for an October 27, 2009 paperback release from Del Rey Books.
I am up for a Star Wars Survival Horror. You could play as a farm boy turned bounty hunter on his first few missions. Maybe get a few contracts from the empire to find missing ships etc.
However I think it would be so origenal that it won't happen. They aren't even willing to do a new space sim so anything original is going to be a stretch for them. Better they stay with reskinning Battlefield-1942 over and over again instead.
I'm in! The last SW novels I read was the first 2 of NJO and those were great I just started reading hmm "better"(?) stuff then like Vonnegut and so it goes.
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There actually have been horror themed Star Wars books before, just not very good ones. Back when Goosebumps and it's myriad of imitators were all the rage with the tween crowd, Del Ray produced it's own young adult horror series called "Galaxy of Fear". I honestly never read any of them so I could be wrong, but they always sounded like a bad idea to me.
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There actually have been horror themed Star Wars books before, just not very good ones. Back when Goosebumps and it's myriad of imitators were all the rage with the tween crowd, Del Ray produced it's own young adult horror series called "Galaxy of Fear". I honestly never read any of them so I could be wrong, but they always sounded like a bad idea to me.
They were ok when I was 12, I don't know how well they'd hold up now. They also ran into practically every goddamn character from the SW universe, too. Even Dash Rendar.
There actually have been horror themed Star Wars books before, just not very good ones. Back when Goosebumps and it's myriad of imitators were all the rage with the tween crowd, Del Ray produced it's own young adult horror series called "Galaxy of Fear". I honestly never read any of them so I could be wrong, but they always sounded like a bad idea to me.
I read Galaxy of Fear when I was about 14 or 15. It sure as hell wasn't scary then.
I think successfully achieving horror with Star Wars is a big challenge.
I read Galaxy of Fear when I was about 14 or 15. It sure as hell wasn't scary then.
I think successfully achieving horror with Star Wars is a big challenge.
Firstly, that's an extremely brutal cover for something with Star Wars on the cover. Meat hooks and a bloodied, broken Stormtrooper helmet. Nice.
The bigget hurdle they'll have is providing us with good, new characters that aren't one of the primaries from the films. Everyone needs to be extremely expendable for it to work.
Based purely off of the cover, I'm willing to be it'll be about a squad of Stormtroopers tracking down some bignasty in the bowels of a ship or space station. After watching the new Clone Wars series(which I'm ever so pleasantly surprised with!), I'd be more than down for a book about a Trooper squad and their interactions, horror or otherwise.
It probably won't end up being all that scary, but I'm sure it'll still be a pretty solid novel when all is said and done. The Expanded Universe authors tend to be, by and large, decent(at the very least) and fully capable of telling a good story. I just wish it was coming out a bit sooner; if the ability to preorder isn't available right now, I'm definitely going to forget about this.
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Conveniently, Amazon has it listed. I can now forget about the book until October and be pleasantly surprised when it arrives in the mail!
