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Joe Schreiber has already turned in the manuscript for a prequel to his just-released Star Wars: Death Troopers novel. The book is now scheduled for an early October 2010 release. In an interview on StarWars.com Schreiber says that the next book will deal with (SPOILER highlight with mouse to read) the origin of the virus that got loose on that Star Destroyer and turned so many people into zombies.

Incidentally, here’s my review from a few days ago of Star Wars: Death Troopers. This book has fast found an enthused audience: some are saying that it’s one of the freshest Star Wars stories in quite a long while. And ever since I finished reading it, it’s been in my mind that Lucasfilm is sitting on a huge opportunity here for a Star Wars “side franchise”. I’m talking ’bout video games, action figures, more books… lots more stuff ...

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Star Wars: Death Troopers is the craziest detour I’ve ever taken as a life-long fan of the saga. When word of this book came awhile back, the notion of a Star Wars horror novel… aroused considerable curiosity, concern and consternation. Yeah, Star Wars had (kinda) attempted scary literature before but let’s get real: the Galaxy of Fear “young adult” books only came about ‘cuz of a desire to tag along with the then-wildly successful Goosebumps series.

Death Troopers however, is the first-ever stab at blood-curdling horror in that galaxy far, far away.

So… did author Joe Schreiber pull it off?

Death Troopers is the kind of Star Wars story that I’ve been wanting to enjoy for a long time but didn’t realize until I’d finished reading it: a good, solid stand-alone tale rife with action and without the baggage of moral dilemma or political metaphor. As a horror novel, however…...

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Check out this gnarly promotional art for Joe Schreiber’s upcoming Star Wars horror novel Death Troopers:

Hey, if we can have Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on the bookstore shelves, why not everyone’s favorite space smuggling duo against the undead? I’ve heard a lot of fans are jazzed about this novel: the first serious foray that the saga has taken into the horror genre.

Death Troopers arrives this October 13th....

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