According to the good people over at the SWAN podcast,

“With the ad for a new book, entitled Millennium Falcon appearing at the end of the newest Legacy of the Force book Invincible (on store shelves tomorrow) it was widely suspected that this meant Del Rey’s contract with Lucasfilm for more Star Wars books was extended.

We contacted our sources at Del Rey and we can now confirm this to be the case!

Per David Moench, Assistant Director of Publicity at Ballantine, Del Rey has received an extended contract for more Star Wars novels. “There are sure there will be more books into 2009″ he said, but he could not be more specific about the details of the contract, how many years it covered, or how many books we may see. He did confirm there would be new adult fiction as well as companion books, like the Star Wars Encyclopedia being released this fall

So that means more great Star Wars fiction to come from Del Rey. We expect an official announcement from Lucasfilm’s Sue Rostoni to be forthcoming.”

Like we said back in our original Falcon novel post, this was expected, but very interesting none the less.  We’ll keep you posted with all the latest news and will try to get a comment from Sue.

So, as you probably would have guessed, today marks the release of the ninth and final Legacy Of The Force novel, Invincible by Troy Denning. You can buy it as a hardcover today in your local book stores. We also have it on good authority that Invincible does indeed contain a one page teaser for James Luceno’s upcoming “Millennium Falcon.”

Because of this, today’s EUC LOTF Week discussion is for Invincible. Now, spoilers are allowed, but major spoilers are asked to be placed within the spoilers tags at least until a week from now, this way people just starting to read can discuss it too. After that, all gloves are off, but only in the Invincible thread.

NJOE continues its LOTF trivia today as well, and let me tell you, it’s getting really intense and interesting already. Have fun, everyone! Also remember that all this week EUC is looking for talented writers to send in their thoughts on LOTF; more information on that can be found here, under the EUC Events header.

Shownotes for EUCast Episode 22 - I Am Iron Man

-Discussion of the new Clone Wars Poster.

-The Secret Apprentice is Anakin’s apprentice from the Clone Wars?

-Austin reveals how little he knows about comics.

-Iron Man discussion.

-Main Discussion: Star Wars Insider’s Top Ten Lightsaber Battles (doesn’t include EU!!!).

-Which Yoda duel was better; Dooku or Palpatine?

-Dueling Round: Chewie and Han.

-EU Guru with Nathan Butler: Special Legacy of the Force edition for LOTF Week.

-Regular Segments.

-And much more!

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According to joystiq.com:

“The Force Unleashed Xbox 360 and PS3 producer, Cameron Suey, has said that LucasArts is planning a demo of the highly anticipated stormtrooper torture sim, just in case there are some weirdos out there who aren’t sold on playing as Darth Vader. “I’m not certain about the specifics, but we definitely want to get this game out into people’s hands,” said Suey. “There are people who are excited about it, who are going to play it right away, whether they play it (the demo) or not.”

You can read the source article here. This is very exciting news! We will try and get a date as soon as we can, as well as what it might be with when the demo is released. Special thanks to Iron Fist for pointing this out for us.

You can feel free to discuss The Force Unleashed on our message boards here.

Recently,DarkHorse.com updated their site with their August solicitations, including their Star Wars titles. You can head here for the solicitations under August, or to Rebelscum.com’s article here. Here’s a small preview of what to expect:

Source: DarkHorse.com, RebelScum.com

This week for comics we see Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic #28, part 4 of Vector. This is the final issue of Vector for Knights of the Old Republic so be sure to check out the conclusion for KOTOR to see where Dark Times will goes next. May the Force be with you!

Source: DiamondComics

Our affiliate and friends over at Jedi News got an exclusive interview with Dave Filoni, the excutive director on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Here’s an excerpt:

“JN: Hi Dave, thank you very much for taking some time out. I appreciate you’re pretty busy at the moment!
DF: Yeah, no problem, no problem.
JN: So, how are you doing?
DF: Oh, you know super busy right now. Juggling a lot, but everybody is on the show, so… pretty excited that we’re finally going to be coming out later this summer.
JN: Cool, so is it all done and dusted or are you still putting the final touches to it?
DF: No, just like, I think, any other movie… we’re working on it all the time, trying to make it better and still working on little tiny things right now. ”

To check it all out, visit Jedi News and read the entire interview here.

Source: Jedi News

As announced last week, EUC, NJOE, and Club Jade are participating in a week long event celebrating the conclusion of the epic Legacy Of The Force series, starting today! Before events, dates, and more are given, I’m very pleased to announce that we do have a winner to Club Jade comment lottery preface to the week itself, which drew in 96 comments!

The winner is Rae, and he/she will be getting their book on the 14th, thanks to our great friends over at Club Jade. Congrats! Now, the events and their details for this week.

EU Cantina will be hosting different LOTF specific discussions each day, all day, on our message boards*. All the dates and topics can be found on the special LOTF Week page, which can be found here. Our contest for the week will be a chance to get an editorial on the Jundland Wizard’s Waster Corner. It will have to be on Legacy Of The Force, why you thought it was good/bad, and the experience it has given you as a reader. All entries can be sent to staff@eucantina.net no later than May 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM EST. Get ‘em in and you’ll have a chance to see your writing link across several major SW fan sites.

NJOE will be having a LOTF Trivia Contest all week on their message boards.* It will be monitored each day, and the member who answers the most answers correct for the week will win either a @njoe.com e-mail address and/or (yourname).njoe.com URLs/web hosting, which is a must for anyone hoping to start a website! The rules can also be found on our Legacy Of The Force Week page.

Any questions about the week, events, or prizes can be sent to staff@eucantina.net, njoe@njoe.com, or dunc@clubjade.net.

So, without any further ado, let’s get this week started with the LOTF Author Discussion here on EUC, and the trivia contest here on NJOE.

* To participate in the discussions on the EUC forums, as well as the Trivia on the NJOE forums, you must be a registered member of the forum. You can register here on the EUC message boards, and here on the NJOE message boards.

We’ve been following this story for awhile now, and our good friends at SW Books may have just cracked it open for confirmation. If you recall, Karen Traviss is slated for a Untitled novel on July 29, 2008. Now, thanks to Amazon.co.uk, we might be able to tell you that it will be called Star Wars: The Clone Wars and released on July 26, 2008- the same date as many of the children Clone Wars books. Many believe this means not only is it a Clone Wars era book, but a tie-in to the movie itself.

Del Rey and Karen Traviss have both not updated their sites with any information yet, but we expect either two and/or SW.com will hopefully soon. We’ll try to get you more information on this Karen Traviss novel mystery if we can.

Source: SW Books, Amazon.co.uk

Clubjade had just found out the schedule for a few upcoming books.  First, Patterns Of The Force, the third book in the Coruscant Nights trilogy, has been moved back to January 17th, probably due to the fact that Michael Reeves, the author of the entire series, has health issues he’s dealing with at the moment.

Also, the paperback reprint of Death Star will come out November 11th, while the paperback reprint of Darth Bane: Rule Of Two is going to come out October 28th.

Source: Clubjade.net