Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Alien Species

Star Wars: Essential Guides #7

by Ann Margaret Lewis, R.K. Post (Illustrator)

Covers more than 150 of the alien species that have appeared in the first fourStar Wars stories, from banthas and Wookiees to Anzati and Yuuzhan Vong, providing pertinent data and detailed illustrations. Original.

Genres: Star Wars, Science Fiction, Reference, Art, Aliens, Fiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2001

About the author

Ann Margaret Lewis began her writing career writing tie-in children’s books and short stories for DC Comics. She then published two editions of Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species for DelRey/Random House. Moving from licensed publishing, Ann began writing science fiction/fantasy, historical fiction, and Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Her first book, Murder in the Vatican: The Church Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes was the Independent Book Publisher’s Award Winner for 2010 and a finalist for the Catholic Arts and Letters Award. She followed that with another Sherlock Holmes novel entitled The Watson Chronicles: A Sherlock Holmes Novel in Stories.

Her latest book, Warrior of the Kizan, is a space opera. And her work has appeared in the anthologies To Be Men (2019) and Luna (release 2020).

Reviews

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Jeff Lanter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much like the other Essential Guides, Alien Species covers a particular part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe with text and images. The images deserve a mention because the style is less cartoony than some of the previous editions of The Essential Guide and this book is better for it. The sketches are a little more "realistic" looking and in line with the Star Wars movies. This book came out around the time of Phantom Menace so it also has a stronger focus on what is important in the Star Wars Universe to more modern readers. Some of the older (and cheesier) novels and comics are left out in favor of Yuuzhan Vong and Nemoidians. That, along with the images, makes this one of the better Essential Guides to read.

[Nicholas · Rating 3 out of 5]

It seems to me that while this book is quite detailed and very fun to read there are some alien creatures that are missing. There is no mention of the events that occurred in episode 2 or 3, which is unfortunate because so many other Star Wars novels were used as reference. Overall a good, but incomplete read; perhaps there is a more current version out there.

[Theresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

a good descriptive out look on aliens in the series