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Star Wars - Red Harvest
320 pages
A claustrophobic, blood-soaked descent into Sith-engineered zombie horror that trades lightsaber duels for desperate survival.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like watching a beloved, familiar sci-fi universe suddenly plunge into a nightmare of rotting flesh and relentless terror. It trades the sweeping, heroic space opera of its setting for a claustrophobic, dread-soaked survival horror experience. The pace is propulsive, dragging you through dark, blood-slicked corridors as creeping unease rapidly escalates into frantic, adrenaline-fueled panic. The prose is unapologetically visceral, lingering on the gruesome sensory details of decay, mutation, and violence with a pulpy, B-movie glee. It is a grim, macabre ride that delights in corrupting the natural order of its world. This is the perfect read for fans who crave a darker, bloodier edge to their space fantasy and love the desperate, claustrophobic thrill of a zombie outbreak.
- Mood
- dread-soaked
- claustrophobic
- gruesome
- nightmarish
- Tone
- macabre
- grim
- visceral
- pulpy
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- corruption of nature · the price of immortality · survival horror · dark ambition
- The writing
- Cinematic and unapologetically graphic, lingering on visceral sensory details of decay and violence.
- The arc
- Moves from creeping, isolated unease into a frantic, adrenaline-fueled fight for survival against an unstoppable tide.
- Who it's for
- Readers who want to see a polished, heroic space opera universe dragged through the bloody, terrifying mud of a zombie slasher.
Content notes
- graphic violence
- gore
- body horror
- zombie infection
- death
About the book
The era of the Old Republic is a dark and dangerous time, as Jedi Knights valiantly battle the Sith Lords and their ruthless armies. But the Sith have disturbing plans—and none more so than the fulfillment of Darth Scabrous’s fanatical dream, which is about to become nightmarish reality.
Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps—young Jedi whose abilities have not proved up to snuff—Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous. For the rare black orchid that she has nurtured and bonded with is the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire.
But at the heart of the formula is a never-before-seen virus that’s worse than fatal—it doesn’t just kill, it transforms. Now the rotting, ravenous dead are rising, driven by a bloodthirsty hunger for all things living—and commanded by a Sith Master with an insatiable lust for power and the ultimate prize: immortality... no matter the cost.
Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
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