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Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Alien Species (Star Wars: Essential Guides) (Paperback)

by Ann Margaret Lewis (Author), Post. R.K. (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc. (1 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0345442202
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345442208
  • Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 486,014 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Covers more than 150 of the alien species that have appeared in the first fourStar Wars stories, from banthas and Wookiees to Anzati and Yuuzhan Vong, providing pertinent data and detailed illustrations. Original.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 12 April 2001
By T. Veekhoven "Sompeetalay" (Tienen, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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I recently got a copy of the Essential Guide to Alien Species ... and my fears came true. From the moment I heard about this book, I feared the worst. I do want to point out that I own all 3 West End Games Alien Books (Galaxy Guide 4 & 12 + Alien Encounters).

This book is only good for people who don't have any previous Alien Books. I consider this volume a wasted opportunity to give the +/- 35 species from the movies, that have not yet gotten their background, a decent place in the Universe.

There are +/- 65 Species and Creatures from the movies and +/- 73 from the Expanded Universe in this book, so you can hardly call this book Essential, since we've all seen the movies, but not all of us have read the books / comics.

What's bad about this book: *Hardly contains any real new information, most info is copied from previous books and it seems there wasn't any real interest (enough knowledge of Star Wars lore) to write new information. *Episode I species are ignored. Only Toydarians, Dugs, Neimoidians and Gungans appear in this book. So don't expect to see species of the Jedi Council, Senate or Podracers. *Way too much Expanded Universe ! Even (many) Marvel Aliens show up in this book ! *Mixing Aliens with Creatures is not a good idea. The results are clear. There are missing creatures from the movies (not even one creature from Episode I is in this book!) and there are missing many Species as well.

I bought this book because I really like the alien species from the movies and because I thought they would finally give some species a proper background ... I wonder if the writer has actually seen the movies more than once. I think she has never heard of Lutrillians, Wol Cabashhite, Troig, Iktotchi or Morseerian. I think it's a pity that when you're allowed to write a Star Wars Sourcebook that you don't grab the opportunity to write new information instead rehearsing old info. And that she was allowed to add new info was proved because there is a little bit new info though (H'Nemthe - Kowakian Monkey Lizards - Gundarks and Yarkora). I rated it as "3" because it's useful to fans who don't have any previous alien books, but almost useless to fans who do have them.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A great book for those who can't ID a Barbarel at 50 yards, 24 Oct 2001
By Mr. SR Wigmore "steven_wigmore" (England.) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book as I was just starting to get interested in the Star Wars universe and I thought it was brilliant for someone who is a great fan but not a Hardline (read every single book) fan. For these people the book will just be telling you stuff you already know. However if like me before i bought this book you don't know what a Barbarel looks like or really any thing else about one then you will really enjoy this book
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4.0 out of 5 stars Species You Didn't Know Existed, 1 Nov 2002
This book is a must for any self respecting Star Wars fan. If you want to know about Gammoreans, Wookies or ANY of the Star Wars creatures this book can help. I am a HUGE Star Wars fan and there were creatures i've never come accross in any of the expanded universe games or novels. The downside will be that it will need to ne updated with Episode 3 on the way.
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