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The Mask of Fear is the Star Wars Book for the Political Moment

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Alexander Freed's latest Star Wars novel, The Mask of Fear , is the first in a planned trilogy of novels across a trifecta of authors due to release within the next few years .

Freed is simply doing what Star Wars has always done, mapping a cycle in politics that speaks to, and reflects in myriad ways, the American empire in various states of decline.

The Mask of Fear is as much about America in 2025 as it is about the country as it was in 2016 .

The main perspectives in the book all represent different facets of the Rebellion as we will come to know it.

Freed establishes a maturity in his writing and characterisation that isn’t afraid to mine those divides, and push away or pull together these characters.

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