On E.K. Johnston's Queen's Hope, the third and final novel in a YA trilogy that recovers the story of Padmé for a feminist-minded audience, follows the senator's journey in the immediate aftermath of Attack of the Clones.
Category: Franchising Fiction
Star Wars: Reading “Queen’s Peril” by E.K. Johnston (Queen Trilogy 2)
On E.K. Johnston's Queen's Peril, the second novel in a YA trilogy that recovers the story of Padmé for a feminist-minded audience and retells portions of The Phantom Menace from the Queen's perspective.
Star Wars: Reading “Queen’s Shadow” by E.K. Johnston (Queen Trilogy 1)
On E.K. Johnston's Queen's Shadow, the first novel in a YA trilogy that recovers the story of Padmé for a feminist-minded audience and wrestles with the state of democracy.
Dungeons & Dragons: Reading “The Halfling’s Gem” by R.A. Salvatore (Icewind Dale 3)
The third essay in my D&D reading series, which looks at R.A. Salvatore's The Halfling's Gem (1990), a novel about friendship, racial prejudice, and saving your halfling buddy from his own past.
Dungeons & Dragons: Reading “Streams of Silver” by R.A. Salvatore (Icewind Dale 2)
The second essay in my D&D reading series, which looks at R.A. Salvatore's Streams of Silver (1989), a novel about the quest for Mithril Hall and the limits of liberal values of tolerance.
Dungeons & Dragons: Reading “The Crystal Shard” by R.A. Salvatore (Icewind Dale 1)
The first essay in my D&D reading series, which looks at R.A. Salvatore's The Crystal Shard (1988), the groundbreaking novel that introduced nerds everywhere to the drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden.
Dungeons & Dragons: A Reading Series
This is the landing page for my Dungeons & Dragons essay series, a lengthy quest to read an ungodly amount of D&D novels.
Who Cares about Dungeons & Dragons Novels Anyway?
A manifesto or sorts for why scholars of literary, cultural, and genre history should care about D&D novels.
Genre Fantasies 