Providing a guide to the Star Wars science-fiction universe, this book explores recent issues, news, films and television previews. It also includes articles on the special-effects secrets of Industrial Light & Magic, and interviews with actors, writers and directors. Eight-page pull-out sections reveal details of production artwork. The book features a range of technology running through all the films, from stormtroopers and All-Terrain Transport to the Death Star exterior and interior, and from Probe Droids to blaster weapons, speeder bikes and Vader's Lightsaber.