Star Wars Book Previews: Rebels, Poe & Aphra
While the on-screen adventures of our Star Wars heroes are on pause, the collected canon continues to expand.
According to StarWars.com, current/upcoming Star Wars books on the docket are:
- The Art of Star Wars Rebels, with an introduction by Dave Filoni, available now.
- Poe Dameron: Free Fall arrives August 4.
- Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original arrives July 21.
Aphra Begins (Again)….
The audio excerpt of the Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original release gives us an introduction to the character.
In Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original, an expanded adaptation of the galactic archaeologist’s introduction in Marvel’s Darth Vader series, Aphra makes a deal with the Sith Lord and begins a memorable misadventure. StarWars.com is thrilled to present a first-listen to the audio drama, in which actor Emily Woo Zeller brings Aphra to life with a simultaneously hilarious, chaotic, and faux-confident performance befitting the not-so-good doctor.
Check out the audio clip at StarWars.com.
Before Poe Was Poe
The new book about Poe Dameron, set before he was a Resistance leader, is Poe Dameron: Free Fall:
In Poe Dameron: Free Fall by Alex Segura, we can finally expect some answers. Set a few years after his mother, Shara Bey, passed away, the story finds a troubled teenaged Poe running away from home (and his Rebel hero father) to find adventure and — of course — some trouble.
The excerpt is available via the official Star Wars home page.
Remembering Star Wars Rebels
Perhaps the most underrated of all of SW non-theatrical programming, Star Wars Rebels added much to the overall canon of the Star Wars universe. And, as far as I am concerned, it is — in conjunction with the Mortis Arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars — the most spiritual scenes of The Saga.
And now, we can see how some of those poignant set-pieces came into being.
Amy Richau sat down with The Art of Star Wars Rebels author Dan Wallace, who told the StarWars.com writer:
I’ve been a Rebels fan since the beginning, and even before the beginning! During Season One of Rebels I wrote two tie-in books: Ezra’s Rebel Journal and Sabine: My Rebel Sketchbook, and as part of that I got to read the early scripts before the show was officially released. Of course, I kept up on the show as it aired, and you’re definitely right that working on The Art of Star Wars Rebels required a lot of rewatching of certain episodes and sequences.
And it looks that we’ll all benefit from that research!


Image: StarWars.com
Check out Richau’s full article and more images from the book on the SW homepage.
In the meantime, if you are a Star Wars fan and haven’t tried them, pick up a Star Wars book.