Series
Rogue One
Alexander Freed, Beth Revis, Greg Rucka, James Luceno & Matt Forbeck · 5 novels · 2016–2017
The Rogue One tie-in novels expand the story of the film of the same name from several angles: Catalyst follows scientist Galen Erso in the years before the film as he's coerced into building the Death Star's core, while Rebel Rising follows his daughter Jyn growing up in the Rebellion's shadow after he's taken from her. The younger-reader Guardians of the Whills and the film's own novelization fill in further gaps around the same events. Together they sit within the wider Star Wars universe as connective tissue for one film's story rather than an independent saga.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Rogue One at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s5
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Rogue Onedarkest · calmest
- Rogue One: A Junior Novelbrightest
- Guardians of the Whillsmost intense