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Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (Hardcover)

by Stephen J. Sansweet (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 1224 pages
  • Publisher: Del Rey Books; Updated edition (4 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0345477634
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345477637
  • Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 22.8 x 8.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent updates, but there are some mistakes, 9 April 2009
By Beedo Sookcool (Torbay, Devonshire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (Star Wars) (Hardcover)
At a cursory glance-through to look at the nice pictures, this looks like an impressive reworking of an already impressive resource material. Several errors from the first Encyclopædia from 1998, like several characters' photos being put under the wrong entires, seem to have all been fixed. This new version is amazingly up-to-date, including entries from the latest series of "The Clone Wars" GCI cartoon on TV. Its authors have crammed A LOT of info into three hefty volumes (from the A-10 Vigilance Interceptor variant to Zzzanmxl), with great pictures -- some of them brand-new for this project -- and it's an absolute must-have for "Star Wars" fans.

However, upon closer examination, this ain't perfect reference material. I got this set in the post from Amazon the day it was released, and started working my way through it. I'm into the second volume at the moment. And I'm still finding typos, though currently at a lower frequency than Volume 1's average of one every fifteen pages or so. The first error that sprung out at me, in the "A" section, was a reference to a character called Nen Yim. And just a little further down the same column of the same page in a different article, the same character is referred to as NEM Yim. Also, the table displaying the Aurebesh alphabet is typeset badly, with a few of the symbol names misspelled (based on previously-published material), and many of the symbol names are capitalised, and several of them are in lower-case (for no apparent reason). Near the bottom of one of the columns in the "C" section, four entries -- starting with "Croke" -- are duplicated on the next page. A creature known as Fenner's Rock is described as "toothsome" (pleasant to eat; tasty), when the writers actually mean it's "toothy," as in: it's got a big mouth filled with nasty big pointy white things . . . which are really soft cartilaginous growths used as a threat display to deter predators and not really teeth at all. Okay, this isn't end-of-the-world catastrophe stuff, but it makes you wonder where else some mistakes may be lurking.

Also, because there are now so very, very many published "Star Wars" products nowadays, a lot of which intersect and borrow from each other, the authors have done away with the source codes for each entry. While this may make it frustrating for anyone wishing to find out exactly which book a certain item appeared in, it at least cuts down the potential length of the book by a good hundred pages or so. I mean, can you imagine a list of sources at the end of (for example) the Han Solo or Luke Skywalker articles that lists every single work they appeared in? Exactly. Bad for researchers, but it saves paper and money.

Is this set perfect? No. Is it extremely good? Yes. Is it worth having if you're a "Star Wars" fan? Most definitely. Just be aware that it might not be 100% accurate (if 100% accuracy is what your going for). If you're an absolute stickler for that kind of thing, you might want to wait for a later edition. Or, if you're a typical sci-fi übergeek (like me), you can catch all the mistakes yourself and forgive a few typos, so long as you know what the authors are getting at. Besides, you just KNOW that ten years from now, they're going to do an even more colossal update, but this should tide you over until then.

I may refine this review later as I read further into the volumes, but I figured someone should dash off a few lines for anyone sitting on the fence, wondering how this project turned out. So far: not perfect, but darned impressive. And with Amazon's current nice low price on this item, why not indulge yourself?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Star Wars Encyclopaedia, 14 May 2009
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This was a present for my son in law who is a total Star Wars fanatic and it has kept him quiet for hours. He is very happy with the book so I can recommend it as a birthday/Christmas present for other fans.
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