• This was a great book! -Thomas Carpenter

• Zombies=awsomest "monster" ever Stormtroopers=awsomest soldier ever besides anyone in Power Armor Zombies+Stormtroopers=something I would sell everything I own for. It's that awsome.

• I think a horror star wars would be interesting. Sci-fi horror have always been hand in hand. It will be good to see star wars sheding its fantasy stigma for something else. I like the title too.

• I agree with Butts..

• Two things; the entire Star Wars universe is all monsters. That's all it is. Being trapped wouldn't seem to make it any scarier, right? I mean, if you're walking around planets with giant talking gangsta slugs, flying dickhole elephant misquiot men and various other ghouls...is there really any monsters that would seem all that scary? Secondly, monsters don't work because of Jedis. It'd look something like this...holy crap a monster...mind trick...force push...saber to the face...goal!

• This looks interesting--GREAT cover art. But if someone is going to write a Star Wars horror novel, why don't they just have a Sith Lord go all Hellraiser on a bunch of Padawans? Reading about a sadistic, homocidal, sick-assed Sith get morbidly creative with the Force would be more interesting than reading an ALIEN knock-off with Stormtroopers.

• Well...this is a pleasant thread. What is it about a Star Wars post that freaks people the fuck out? Wow. I love me some Star Wars, and I love the idea of expanding upon it. If u enjoy Star Wars, how can u not be at least slightly stoked?

• @ Toxic: Well, yeah. Since George owns Star Wars. Plus, he has the "sense" to not release the Holiday Special. @ Arsenal: Nice one. The plot sounds like it was made by an "experimental George."

• Awesome. Sequel to this? Storm Troopers are transporting a prisoner to Korriban which is now a prison planet, only to find ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE. God, I am a genius. Thank you.

• Are you high Toxic. GL wrote this himself. It was the original draft for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of too long of a name. But it got slapped down so it changed all the Indys to Han, the Mutts to luke, and fat guy who quadruple crossed them to lando. Bammmm the star wars horror book was written

• Holy shit, I hope they make THIS novel into a movie, or at least at episode of the live-action abortion that's being made.

• NeoXorn: You think George and his posse have the moral authority or the sense to disapprove of this? Shit, George probably told em to write it after he watched Alien on Blu-ray.

• Is this for real? And George and his posse approved this?

• Mandalorians rule, Jedis drool.

• <b>I swear if I have to read ONE MORE WORD of Karen Traviss' goddamned Mandalorian shit, I'll rip my eyes out.</b> <i>Ke nu jurkad ti Mando'ade, burc'ya.</i> There, is it working? Are you tearing your eyes out yet? Tell me honestly. ;) Also, as regards the original entry, "Stormtroopers menaced by hideous monster" describes about 65% of the content of most of Kevin Anderson's <i>Star Wars</i> novels, which all sensible SW fans realize are largely composed of unfiltered <i>osik</i>.

• Boy. I'm torn. On one hand, I like this concept and think Star Wars could be expanded a bit, getting away from all that standard space opera, chase, fight, epic battle stuff might be cool. On the other hand, I feel so betrayed by the EU books of late, that I'm not sure I'd ever buy another one. I enjoy the Clone Wars series on TV. I liked the Ewok movies. I even enjoy The Phantom Menace from time to time (well, like 1/3 of it, anyway). But the EU books have just pissed me off to no end. First, the Legacy of the Force series was absolute crap. It had SUCH potential, but then ended up being a mish-mash of each writer's pet projects. I swear if I have to read ONE MORE WORD of Karen Traviss' goddamned Mandalorian shit, I'll rip my eyes out. Her books have degraded into Highlander Romance novels altered to fit the Star Wars universe. Change "Highlander" to "Mandalorian" and you've pretty much got the formula for a Karen Traviss book these days. Her obssession with showing the reader how TOTALLY AWESOME AND PERFECT AND HANDSOME AND ROMANTIC AND QUAINT the Mandalorians are, and how STUPID AND CLUMSY AND NOT AS AWESOME AS MANDALORIANS the Jedi are is enough to make one shit mouse droids. And then the whole damn series just spun out of control, of course, and wasted several great characters on momentary, useless, shock-value crap. The way I read the Legacy of the Force series, Jacen was the good guy and everyone else was being an asshole. Then, they throw The Force Unleashed at us, and what is the novelisation like? It's a terse, boring word-for-word description of the events in the videogame. It's about as stimulating as reading a FAQ for the game, or some 12-year-old describing it to another 12-year-old: "And then he kills the stormtrooper, and then shoots lightning out of his hand, and it's like BOOM and then he fights some plants and jumps REAL HIGH..." The last decent Star Wars novel was Dark Lord. At least that one gave us some insight into a character we cared about, instead of trying to wedge in (no pun intended) a group of Mandalorian fuckheads who do everything better than everyone else in the galaxy, and could TOTALLY have won the war with the Empire AND the Yuuzhan Vong if they'd wanted to, according to Ms. Traviss. Yeah. I'd say next to Barbara Hambly, Karen Traviss is the worst Star Wars novelist you can be exposed to.

• I bet the monster turns out to be a dianoga. Surprise.

• My, what a remarkably not-original or interesting cover.

• D Vader - "I said TWO sugars and SOY in my latte you underling.....off with your head" ?

• Night of the Living Jawas

• Oh man, I was totally playing this the other day. It was called Dead Space.

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