Today marks the release of Lords of the Sith, the fourth installment in the new line of Star Wars fiction, overseen by the Lucasfilm Story Group. Veteran Star Wars author, Paul S. Kemp, returns to the fray with a novel of epic proportions. Kemp has written Sith in the past, in such works as Crosscurrent, Riptide, and The Old Republic: Deceived. Lords of the Sith however, is Kemp’s first attempt of traversing the Original Trilogy era and bringing the Sith to life: Vader and Sidious.
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Announced just over a year ago, on April 25th 2014, Lords of the Sith is set between Revenge of the Sith and James Luceno’s recent release, Tarkin. The publishers summary promised a thrilling adventure that involves a rebel cell attempting to end the Empire’s tyranny by cutting off the head of the serpent himself: Palpatine.