ARTS MEDIA EVENTS
May the Farce BeWithYou
Credulity goes into hyperdrive with the arrival of a real-life owner’s manual for a made-up machine
There’s taking things a li le too far, and then there’s this. Not content with joining the debates on the Jedi
Council Forums or making entries on Wookieepedia, illustrators Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas, along with
veteran sci-fi scribe Ryder Windham, have produced a new book called
Star Wars: Death Star Owner’s Technical
Manual
. In it, the trio deconstruct George Lucas’ fictional space station as if it were a vacuum cleaner or V8
engine, providing the technical specifications of its superlaser and energy shields alongside intricate diagrams
and illustrations. Accompanying these are accounts of the Death Star’s historical origins (its design, we learn,
was inspired by the Trade Federation’s spherical warships), along with a critical analysis of the moon-size
station’s strengths and weaknesses. Nerdy, it is.
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