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Star Wars: The High Republic Livestream Event Announced ✖ Star Wars is introducing fans to a new era full of adventure and darkness in The High Republic. Lucasfilm will kick off that era with a live stream event the day before the first wave of The High Republic stories release. On January 4th at 9 p.m. PT, StarWars.com and YouTube will host an event featuring all five authors of The High Republic's launch stories: Claudia Gray ( Into the Dark), Justina Ireland ( A Test of Courage), Daniel José Older (IDW Publishing’s The High Republic Adventures), Cavan Scott (Marvel’s The High Re...

Much has changed in the fantasy genre in recent decades, but the word ‘fantasy’ still conjures images of dragons, castles, sword-wielding heroes and premodern wildernesses brimming with magic. Major media phenomena such as Harry Potter and Game of Thrones have helped to make medievalist fantasy mainstream, and if you look in the kids’ section of nearly any kind of store today you’ll see sanitised versions of the magical Middle Ages packaged for youth of every age. How did fantasy set in pseudo-medieval, roughly British worlds achieve such a cultural status? Ironically, the modern fo...

Usually, investor calls are dry, numbers-heavy business meetings intended for people far richer…Read more Across the five releases in the first wave—three books, aimed at a range of reader ages, and two ongoing comic series from Marvel and IDW—you will meet Jedi who act like the mystic warriors you’ve seen in almost every Star Wars film. They will swing lightsabers, and use the Force, and fly starships and starfighters that, while they might have different names and different design sensibilities, wouldn’t feel out of place compared to the action of The Phantom Menace or the adven...

Posted on Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 by Ethan Anderton We’ve already met some of the new Jedi who will be trying to keep peace and order when a galaxy-wide crisis strikes in the upcoming Lucasfilm publishing initiative Star Wars: The High Republic. But those are the skilled Jedi who have plenty of experience. What about the up and coming Padawans? Today we’ve got a look at four new Jedi Padawan characters, including a Wookiee who wields a big lightsaber, and some details about the stories in which they’ll be debuting. StarWars.com has a look at some new concept art of four Jedi Pad...

Justin Clement is the winner of the 2020 Gulliver Travel Grant awarded by the Speculative Literature Foundation. The Gulliver Travel Grant, worth $1,000, is intended to assist writers of speculative fiction in research, and can be used to cover airfare, lodging, and other travel expenses. Justin Clement Clement, 23, is a Nigerian writer, who is surprised he can now call himself a writer. His fiction explores the meanings and methods of life, and the human condition, through dark fantasy and science fiction. His works have been listed for various prizes and awards, including The 2018 African W...