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Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back (Paperback)

by George Lucas (Author), Donald F. Glut (Author) "NOW this is what I call cold! ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: ATOM; New Ed edition (4 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904233295
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904233299
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Pursuing Skywalker and his companions to the icy world of Hoth, Darth Vader's forces crush the rebels and the survivors scatter throughout the galaxy. Skywalker, with Obi Wan's guidance, journeys to the Dagobah system to learn the ways of the Jedi from the anicent Jedi Master Yoda. But before his training is complete he has visions of Han and Leia held captive by the Empire. Despite Yoda's urgings Luke flies to their rescue and a desperate battle against Vader in a city amongst the clouds...


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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The saga continues...., 17 Nov 2003
By Alex Diaz-Granados "fardreaming writer" (Miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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Donald F. Glut's novelization of Lawrence Kasdan's screenplay for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, based on a story by George Lucas, is among one of the better adaptations in the continuing saga of the Galactic Civil War and the adventures of Luke Skywalker.

Three years after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebel Alliance is fighting for its very existence. Though they had won a significant victory with the destruction of the Death Star, the evil lord Darth Vader survived and made his way to the Imperial capital, where Emperor Palpatine gave him the ultimate assignment -- to find and destroy the Rebel leadership and crush the Rebellion once and for all. For three years Vader's Imperial Death Squadron of six Star Destroyers -- including his own massive flagship -- has pursued the Rebels from system to system.

Vader is driven, too, to find one Rebel commander in particular: Luke Skywalker. Sometime after the defeat at Yavin, Vader discovered that Luke was the pilot who, with the assistance of the mystical energy field known as the Force, fired the torpedo that destroyed the Death Star. Realizing the young Rebel's untapped -- and untrained -- Jedi powers, Vader has made it his mission in life to capture Luke and, eventually, turn him to the dark side of the Force.

So when an Imperial probe droid spots evidence of a hidden Rebel base on the remote ice world of Hoth, Vader unleashes his legions of stormtroopers against the small Rebel force. In a brief but violent battle, the Empire overwhelms the Alliance troops fighting a rear-guard action, but the bulk of the Rebels, including Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, Luke, and the droids escape.

Vader doesn't know, however, that the Star Warriors have set out on diverging paths. While Han, Chewie, Leia and See Threepio fly off in the damaged Millennium Falcon in a desperate attempt to rejoin the Rebel fleet, Luke and Artoo are on their X-wing starfighter on a different mission altogether. For the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Vader's former Jedi Master and now Luke's spirit-guide, has sent Luke to the Dagobah system. There, he will seek Yoda, the Jedi Master who first instructed Kenobi.

Although Glut (like all Star Wars adapters) had to use an earlier draft of Kasdan's screenplay (Yoda, for instance, is described as being bluish and with long white hair parted in the middle), he is a good enough writer and captures the essence of the film's characters and new settings.

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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, 22 Dec 2000
This review is from: Empire Strikes Back: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics) (Paperback)
Darth Vader's got a secret, people. True you probably know it now, but in case you don't, I'm not gonna tell ya! Put simply, Star Wars suddenly gains more depth, emotion and brilliance in just 4 words.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it, 29 May 1999
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This review is from: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars Series) (Paperback)
This book has an incredible amount of detail and descripted action
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