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Star Wars: The High Republic
Star Wars Insider: The High Republic: Survivors of the Stormwall
A hardcover collection of Star Wars: The High Republic stories from the pages of Star Wars Insider, written by Lydia Kang and award-winning author Alyssa Wong, with illustrations by Star Wars creature concept designer, Jake Lunt Davies.
This collection features 11 short stories set during Phase III of The High Republic, chronicling the ongoing battle against the Nihil centuries prior to the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
Following the destruction of Starlight Beacon and the expansion of Marchion Ro’s galaxy-splitting Stormwall, the crew of the Aurie, a lone Republic Longbeam, find themselves lost in the Occlusion Zone. Meanwhile, a Jedi Padawan searches for a route through the impenetrable barrier.
Also included is an extensive companion to the Phase III books and comics, as well as a chronological readers guide for each phase. There is also a roundtable interview with authors Zoraida Córdova, Tessa Gratton, Lydia Kang, George Mann, Daniel José Older, Cavan Scott, Charles Soule and Lucasfilm Publishing Creative Director Michael Siglain, as they discuss the creation and legacy of the ambitious publishing initiative. Lastly, take a peek into creature concept designer Jake Lunt Davies’ collection of artwork, which provides insight into his illustrative process.
This collection features 11 short stories set during Phase III of The High Republic, chronicling the ongoing battle against the Nihil centuries prior to the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
Following the destruction of Starlight Beacon and the expansion of Marchion Ro’s galaxy-splitting Stormwall, the crew of the Aurie, a lone Republic Longbeam, find themselves lost in the Occlusion Zone. Meanwhile, a Jedi Padawan searches for a route through the impenetrable barrier.
Also included is an extensive companion to the Phase III books and comics, as well as a chronological readers guide for each phase. There is also a roundtable interview with authors Zoraida Córdova, Tessa Gratton, Lydia Kang, George Mann, Daniel José Older, Cavan Scott, Charles Soule and Lucasfilm Publishing Creative Director Michael Siglain, as they discuss the creation and legacy of the ambitious publishing initiative. Lastly, take a peek into creature concept designer Jake Lunt Davies’ collection of artwork, which provides insight into his illustrative process.
- GenresStar Wars
112 pages, Hardcover
Published July 7, 2026
About the author
Lydia Kang
29 books2,402 followersI love salt more than chocolate. I'm somewhat small, yet deceptively strong. Sort of like an ant.
I'm a part time doc, full time family member, and if you offer me snacks, I'll be a friend for life.
My adult fiction centers around historical mysteries in New York City, with splashes of forensics, anatomy, apothecary medicine, and chemistry! A BEAUTIFUL POISON takes place in 1918 at the height of the influenza epidemic; THE IMPOSSIBLE GIRL centers around the illegal grave robbing world; and forthcoming in July 2020 is OPIUM AND ABSINTHE, with--you guessed it--opium and absinthe. And possibly vampires!
I have three nonfiction adult titles written with Nate Pederson: QUACKERY: A Short History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, 2017; PATIENT ZERO: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases; and PSEUDOSCIENCE: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them.
My most recent YA novel is releasing in October 2025, entitled K-Jane (Quill Tree Books) about a Korean American girl who doesn't feel Korean enough and decides to educate herself on all things K-Pop, K-food, K-drama, and things get pretty out of hand! I am also the author of TOXIC, a space opera about a created, teen girl who's abandoned on a biological spaceship, and the mercenary boy doomed to die on it. I've also written THE NOVEMBER GIRL, set on a remote island on Lake Superior. A girl with violence running through her veins meets a boy running away from an abusive home life.
I'm also the author of the Star Wars novel CATACLYSM, which is part of The High Republic series of books that take place several hundred years before the movies begin.
And as always, there are more books to come!
I'm a part time doc, full time family member, and if you offer me snacks, I'll be a friend for life.
My adult fiction centers around historical mysteries in New York City, with splashes of forensics, anatomy, apothecary medicine, and chemistry! A BEAUTIFUL POISON takes place in 1918 at the height of the influenza epidemic; THE IMPOSSIBLE GIRL centers around the illegal grave robbing world; and forthcoming in July 2020 is OPIUM AND ABSINTHE, with--you guessed it--opium and absinthe. And possibly vampires!
I have three nonfiction adult titles written with Nate Pederson: QUACKERY: A Short History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, 2017; PATIENT ZERO: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases; and PSEUDOSCIENCE: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them.
My most recent YA novel is releasing in October 2025, entitled K-Jane (Quill Tree Books) about a Korean American girl who doesn't feel Korean enough and decides to educate herself on all things K-Pop, K-food, K-drama, and things get pretty out of hand! I am also the author of TOXIC, a space opera about a created, teen girl who's abandoned on a biological spaceship, and the mercenary boy doomed to die on it. I've also written THE NOVEMBER GIRL, set on a remote island on Lake Superior. A girl with violence running through her veins meets a boy running away from an abusive home life.
I'm also the author of the Star Wars novel CATACLYSM, which is part of The High Republic series of books that take place several hundred years before the movies begin.
And as always, there are more books to come!
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August 2, 2026
229 - 228 BBY. Eleven short stories from Phase III of the High Republic.
The first two, by Alyssa Wong, focus on Jedi Padawan Ruu on Corellia, featuring the Nihil characters Krix Kamerat and Driggit Parse. The remaining nine stories follow Republic Defense Coalition pilots Joss and Pikka Adren and their trusty Longbeam starship, the Aurora III.
This book is a microcosm of everything that was wrong with the High Republic publishing programme.
We get a bunch of stories which should, in theory, flow into one another and collectively tell a larger tale, but which instead have characters and events drop in and out from other books in the series, establishing plot points and character moments that are resolved elsewhere. It leaves what could've been a nice arc of linked short stories feeling like there are huge unexplained gaps in the storytelling, which you can presumably only fill if you also buy the novels, YA books, comics and audio books.
In short, it's a fragmented mess. Just like reading the rest of the High Republic.
What's a real shame is that the stories, taken individually, aren't even bad. They're not great, but they're perfectly enjoyable. But when taken as a whole they leave you feeling like you've been short-changed.
This is made even worse by the fact that this book's cover price is over 20 quid (25 bucks, if you're American)! There are a bunch of supplemental materials at the back, author interviews, timelines and the suchlike, but I had zero interest in them.
I came for the fiction and was left sorely disappointed.
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The first two, by Alyssa Wong, focus on Jedi Padawan Ruu on Corellia, featuring the Nihil characters Krix Kamerat and Driggit Parse. The remaining nine stories follow Republic Defense Coalition pilots Joss and Pikka Adren and their trusty Longbeam starship, the Aurora III.
This book is a microcosm of everything that was wrong with the High Republic publishing programme.
We get a bunch of stories which should, in theory, flow into one another and collectively tell a larger tale, but which instead have characters and events drop in and out from other books in the series, establishing plot points and character moments that are resolved elsewhere. It leaves what could've been a nice arc of linked short stories feeling like there are huge unexplained gaps in the storytelling, which you can presumably only fill if you also buy the novels, YA books, comics and audio books.
In short, it's a fragmented mess. Just like reading the rest of the High Republic.
What's a real shame is that the stories, taken individually, aren't even bad. They're not great, but they're perfectly enjoyable. But when taken as a whole they leave you feeling like you've been short-changed.
This is made even worse by the fact that this book's cover price is over 20 quid (25 bucks, if you're American)! There are a bunch of supplemental materials at the back, author interviews, timelines and the suchlike, but I had zero interest in them.
I came for the fiction and was left sorely disappointed.
* More reviews here: https://fsfh-book-review2.webnode.page *
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