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* CareBearStare: Tash uses TheForce to reach out to [[spoiler:Eppon, who had just awakened his true nature as Gog's LivingWeapon]] and bombards him with memories of their brief but happy time together. It works.
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* TheScapegoat: The Emperor and Gog made [[spoiler:Mammon Hoole]] the scapegoat for the destruction of Kiva. [[spoiler:Hoole]] did start the experiment, but Gog was the one who lied to him that the experiment was safe when he knew that it would kill everyone on the planet.
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* TheScapegoat: The Emperor and Gog made [[spoiler:Mammon Hoole]] the scapegoat for the destruction of Kiva. [[spoiler:Hoole]] did start the experiment, but Gog was the one who lied to told him that the experiment was safe when he knew that it would kill everyone on the planet.
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* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:D'Vouran]]
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* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: The natives in ''The Hunger'', the planet D'vouran in ''Eaten Alive'', and Eppon in ''Army of Terror''.]]
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* PunnyName: The [[AC: Don't Go Inn]] on D'vouran.
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* PunnyName: The [[AC: Don't Go Inn]] on D'vouran. [[spoiler:And of course, D'Vouran itself.]]
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** Hoole mentions in one book he'd done research on Tatooine and Jabba's palace before. A couple years before the series began, a book called ''The Illustrated Star Wars Universe'' was published, with Hoole cited as the "author" of the Tatooine chapter.
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* TakingOverTheTown: The planet Ghobindi is found to be blockaded, with only Imperial ships able to come in or go out. There's only one settlement there, clustered around an elaborate medical clinic. The Empire is actually [[spoiler: testing TheVirus on it.]]
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** Eppon's PokemonSpeak ("Eppon!") [[spoiler:is merely stating his purpose: ''Weapon''.]]
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* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:Eppon]] is the culmination of Gog's SuperSoldier project, and he possesses traits from all of the previous threats in the series.
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''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galaxy_of_Fear Galaxy of Fear]]'', written by John Whitman, is a series of children's sci-fi horror novels set in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. The series is centered on the Force-sensitive Tash Arranda and her brother Zak, who travel with their Uncle Hoole, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] Shi'ido, and their protocol droid tutor DV-9, or Deevee. Tash and Zak were survivors of the Death Star's attack on Alderaan as they had been in an off-planet field trip. They were taken in by Hoole, an anthropologist with a mysterious past, who travels the galaxy for his work.
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''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galaxy_of_Fear Galaxy of Fear]]'', written by John Whitman, is a series of children's sci-fi horror novels set in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. The series is centered on the Force-sensitive Tash Arranda and her brother Zak, who travel with their Uncle Hoole, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] Shi'ido, and their [[RobotBuddy protocol droid tutor tutor]] DV-9, or Deevee. Tash and Zak were survivors of the Death Star's attack on Alderaan as they had been in an off-planet field trip. They were taken in by Hoole, an anthropologist with a mysterious past, who travels the galaxy for his work.
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* ''City of the Dead'': The family visits the planet Necropolis, where Zak befriends some local kids who dare him to sneak into a cemetery. Boba Fett makes an appearance.
* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. [[VirusVictimSymptoms And she might be infected]]. [[XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]] makes an appearance.
* ''The Nightmare Machine'': Zak and Tash visit Hologram Fun World, which includes a simulator that brings their worst fears to life. Lando Calrissian makes an appearance.
* ''Ghost of the Jedi'': Fleeing [[BigBad Borborygmus Gog]], the family hides out in an abandoned space station that houses an ancient Jedi library. However, the library also houses the spirit of a Jedi.
* ''Army of Terror'': The Arrandas visit Kiva to investigate Project Starscream where they encounter a spectral army and rescue an infant named Eppon from an abandoned laboratory. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and C-3PO all make an appearance, as does Darth Vader.
* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. [[VirusVictimSymptoms And she might be infected]]. [[XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]] makes an appearance.
* ''The Nightmare Machine'': Zak and Tash visit Hologram Fun World, which includes a simulator that brings their worst fears to life. Lando Calrissian makes an appearance.
* ''Ghost of the Jedi'': Fleeing [[BigBad Borborygmus Gog]], the family hides out in an abandoned space station that houses an ancient Jedi library. However, the library also houses the spirit of a Jedi.
* ''Army of Terror'': The Arrandas visit Kiva to investigate Project Starscream where they encounter a spectral army and rescue an infant named Eppon from an abandoned laboratory. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and C-3PO all make an appearance, as does Darth Vader.
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* ''City ''[[TitleOfTheDead City of the Dead'': Dead]]'': The family visits the planet Necropolis, where Zak befriends some local kids who dare him to sneak into a cemetery. Boba Fett makes and [[TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina Doctor Evazam]] make an appearance.
*''Planet Plague'': ''[[ThePlague Planet Plague]]'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. [[VirusVictimSymptoms And she might be infected]]. [[XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]] makes an appearance.
*''The ''[[IKnowWhatYouFear The Nightmare Machine'': Machine]]'': Zak and Tash visit Hologram Fun World, which includes [[PsychologicalTormentZone a simulator that brings their worst fears to life.life]]. Lando Calrissian makes an appearance.
*''Ghost ''[[UnfinishedBusiness Ghost of the Jedi'': Jedi]]'': Fleeing [[BigBad Borborygmus Gog]], the family hides out in an abandoned space station that houses [[SpookySilentLibrary an ancient Jedi library.library]]. However, the library also houses the spirit of a Jedi.
* ''Army of Terror'': The Arrandas visit Kiva to investigate Project Starscream where they encounter a spectral army and [[DoorstopBaby rescue aninfant infant]] named Eppon from an abandoned laboratory.AbandonedLaboratory. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and C-3PO all make an appearance, as does Darth Vader.
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* ''Spore'': The family travels to a mining colony in the middle of an asteroid belt looking for fuel for their ship. However, the miners [[AsteroidMiners miners]] may have DugTooDeep. [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jerec]] makes an appearance.
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* BigBad: Borborygmus Gog for the first six books.
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* BigBad: Borborygmus Gog for the first six books. Technically he works for the Emperor, but he has a lot of discretion.
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In 2009 Adrian Tolliver wrote ''[[ http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_in_the_Slave_Pits_of_Lorrd Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd]], or What I Did On My Inter-Term Break'', an essay from the perspective of Tash Arranda. Set between ''Army of Terror'' and ''The Brain Spiders'', it has the kids wandering Lorrd and finding a wicked plot. [[XWingSeries Face Loran]] appears.
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In 2009 Adrian Tolliver wrote ''[[ http://starwars.''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_in_the_Slave_Pits_of_Lorrd Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd]], or What I Did On My Inter-Term Break'', an essay from the perspective of Tash Arranda. Set between ''Army of Terror'' and ''The Brain Spiders'', it has the kids wandering Lorrd and finding a wicked plot. [[XWingSeries Face Loran]] appears.
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''{{Goosebumps}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''StarWars''!
''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galaxy_of_Fear Galaxy of Fear]]'' is a series of children's sci-fi horror novels set in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. The series is centered on the Force-sensitive Tash Arranda and her brother Zak, who travel with their Uncle Hoole, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] Shi'ido, and their protocol droid tutor DV-9, or Deevee. Tash and Zak were survivors of the Death Star's attack on Alderaan as they had been in an off-planet field trip. They were taken in by Hoole, an anthropologist with a mysterious past, who travels the galaxy for his work.
''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galaxy_of_Fear Galaxy of Fear]]'' is a series of children's sci-fi horror novels set in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. The series is centered on the Force-sensitive Tash Arranda and her brother Zak, who travel with their Uncle Hoole, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] Shi'ido, and their protocol droid tutor DV-9, or Deevee. Tash and Zak were survivors of the Death Star's attack on Alderaan as they had been in an off-planet field trip. They were taken in by Hoole, an anthropologist with a mysterious past, who travels the galaxy for his work.
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-->-- ''The Hunger''
''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galaxy_of_Fear Galaxy of
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* ''The Hunger'': Their ship destroyed by Boba Fett, the family is stranded on a swamp planet with a strange tribe calling themselves the Children. Boba Fett and Yoda make appearances.
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* ''The Hunger'': Their ship destroyed by Boba Fett, the family is stranded on a swamp planet with a strange tribe calling themselves the Children. Boba Fett Fett, Yoda, and Yoda [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Platt_Okeefe Platt Okeefe]] make appearances.
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In 2009 Adrian Tolliver wrote ''[[ http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_in_the_Slave_Pits_of_Lorrd Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd]], or What I Did On My Inter-Term Break'', an essay from the perspective of Tash Arranda. Set between ''Army of Terror'' and ''The Brain Spiders'', it has the kids wandering Lorrd and finding a wicked plot. [[XWingSeries Face Loran]] appears.
In 2009 Adrian Tolliver wrote ''[[ http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_in_the_Slave_Pits_of_Lorrd Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd]], or What I Did On My Inter-Term Break'', an essay from the perspective of Tash Arranda. Set between ''Army of Terror'' and ''The Brain Spiders'', it has the kids wandering Lorrd and finding a wicked plot. [[XWingSeries Face Loran]] appears.
* AllThereInTheManual: The [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090629180129/http://blogs.starwars.com/taloncard/12 notes]] for ''Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd'' claims that Tash's change in attitude towards her brother and life in general between ''Army of Terror'' and ''The Brain Spiders'' is due to infatuation.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every chapter, every book. Daniel Wallace lampshaded it.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every chapter, every book.book, several times. Daniel Wallace lampshaded it.
** DV-9 also lampshaded it. ''Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd'' has him leaving a lot of comments in red on the essay.
--> "I must object to the false jeopardy and melodramatic suspense at the end of every section. This is an informative essay, not a holodrama."
--> "I must object to the false jeopardy and melodramatic suspense at the end of every section. This is an informative essay, not a holodrama."
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* ContinuityNod: Many of them, to the movies and the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse. In ''The Planet Plague'', DV-9 chatters about the Massassi of Yavin Four and the [[DarkEmpire Ysanna of Ossus]].
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* ContinuityNod: Many of them, to the movies and the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse. In ''The Planet Plague'', DV-9 chatters about the Massassi of Yavin Four and the [[DarkEmpire Ysanna of Ossus]]. ''Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd'' is [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090629180129/http://blogs.starwars.com/taloncard/12 absolutely thick with them]].
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* FingerTwitchingRevival: After being [[spoiler:killed by Gog, a headless Eppon's finger twitches]]. Then the novel ends.
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* FictionalDocument: Tash cites several of them at the bottom of ''Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd''.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: After being [[spoiler:killed by Gog, a headless Eppon's finger twitches]]. The narration states that it might be the wind. Then the novel ends.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: After being [[spoiler:killed by Gog, a headless Eppon's finger twitches]]. The narration states that it might be the wind. Then the novel ends.
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* FollowTheLeader: Like the page quote says, it's pretty clearly Goosebumps [- [[RecycledINSPACE IN STAR WARS]]-].
* TheForce: Being attacked triggers something in Tash.
* TheForce: Being attacked triggers something in Tash.
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* FollowTheLeader: Like the page quote says, it's pretty clearly Goosebumps [- [[RecycledINSPACE IN STAR WARS]]-].
WARS]]-]. And with recurring characters who get [[CharacterDevelopment developed]].
* TheForce: Being attacked in ''Eaten Alive'' triggers something inTash.Tash, and never really leaves her.
* TheForce: Being attacked in ''Eaten Alive'' triggers something in
** Similarly, the meat flowers of Dagobah in ''The Hunger'' have toothy petals and bite passersby, though if they've been fed they will only bite if bothered.
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* SharePhrase: Tash has a bad feeling about this. Lampshaded by her brother, who scornfully says she always has bad feelings.
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* SharePhrase: Tash has a bad feeling about this. Lampshaded by her brother, brother at the start of the series, who scornfully says she always has bad feelings.feelings. At the end of the series, he has some himself.
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* StylisticSuck: ''Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd'' contains some drawings by Tash of some of the people and things they find. They look like they've been scribbled with colored pencil. Well, she ''is'' thirteen and never stated to have an interest in art.
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* ''EatenAlive'': Our heroes crash-land on the planet D'Vouran and deal with several mysterious disappearances. Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, and their droids make an appearance.
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* ''EatenAlive'': Our heroes crash-land [[ComingInHot crash-land]] on the planet D'Vouran D'vouran and deal with several mysterious disappearances. Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, and their droids make an appearance.
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* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. And she might be infected. [[XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]] makes an appearance.
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* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. [[VirusVictimSymptoms And she might be infected.infected]]. [[XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]] makes an appearance.
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* ''Ghost of the Jedi'': Fleeing Gog, the family hides out in an abandoned space station that houses an ancient Jedi library. However, the library also houses the spirit of a Jedi.
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* ''Ghost of the Jedi'': Fleeing Gog, [[BigBad Borborygmus Gog]], the family hides out in an abandoned space station that houses an ancient Jedi library. However, the library also houses the spirit of a Jedi.
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* ''The Brain Spiders'': Hoole visits Jabba's Palace so that he can study the [[BrainInAJar B'omarr monks]]. Meanwhile, the kids investigate a series of murders whose killer leaves a K carved into his victims' bodies.
* ''The Swarm'': The gang visits the Sikadian Garden, where they run into Imperial officers and a swarm of carnivorous insects whose numbers have mysteriously skyrocketed. Captain (and future Grand Admiral) [[TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn]] makes an appearance.
* ''The Swarm'': The gang visits the Sikadian Garden, where they run into Imperial officers and a swarm of carnivorous insects whose numbers have mysteriously skyrocketed. Captain (and future Grand Admiral) [[TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn]] makes an appearance.
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* ''The Brain Spiders'': Hoole visits Jabba's Palace so that he can study the [[BrainInAJar B'omarr monks]]. Meanwhile, the kids investigate a series of murders whose killer [[SerialKiller killer]] [[CallingCard leaves a K carved into his victims' bodies.
bodies]].
*''The Swarm'': ''TheSwarm'': The gang visits the Sikadian Garden, where they run into Imperial officers and a swarm of carnivorous insects whose numbers have mysteriously skyrocketed. Captain (and future Grand Admiral) [[TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn]] makes an appearance.
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* ''The Doomsday Ship'': The Arrandas are relaxing on a luxury space yacht when passengers are ordered to abandon ship due to an imminent meltdown. Zak and Tash are stuck onboard but the meltdown never happens. The Arrandas are now trapped onboard with no communications and no way out. [[ShadowsOfTheEmpire Dash Rendar]] makes an appearance.
* ''Clones'': The family lands on Dantooine, where they are tricked into visiting some old Jedi ruins. They run into a gang of Rebels but Tash senses the Dark Side in the ruins.
* ''Clones'': The family lands on Dantooine, where they are tricked into visiting some old Jedi ruins. They run into a gang of Rebels but Tash senses the Dark Side in the ruins.
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* ''The Doomsday Ship'': The Arrandas are relaxing on a luxury space yacht when passengers are ordered to [[EscapePod abandon ship ship]] due to an imminent meltdown. Zak and Tash are stuck onboard but the meltdown never happens. The Arrandas are now trapped onboard with no communications and no way out. [[ShadowsOfTheEmpire Dash Rendar]] makes an appearance.
* ''Clones'': The family lands on Dantooine, where they are tricked into visiting some old Jedi ruins. They run into a gang of Rebels but Tash senses the Dark Side in the ruins. Darth Vader appears.
* ''Clones'': The family lands on Dantooine, where they are tricked into visiting some old Jedi ruins. They run into a gang of Rebels but Tash senses the Dark Side in the ruins. Darth Vader appears.
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* BigDamnHeroes: In ''Eaten Alive'', the crew of the ''Falcon'' make a brief cameo early on, then leave the planet. Later [[spoiler: the planet itself comes to life]] and prevents our heroes' ship from taking off, and the ''Falcon'' picks them up because Luke had wanted to check on them.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Many times. In ''Eaten Alive'', the crew of the ''Falcon'' make a brief cameo early on, then leave the planet. Later [[spoiler: the planet itself comes to life]] and prevents our heroes' ship from taking off, and the ''Falcon'' picks them up because Luke had wanted to check on them.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: D'vouran, a planet that [[spoiler:eats people]] and Necropolis, a planet with [[spoiler:zombies]].
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* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: The natives in ''The Hunger'', the planet D'Vouran in ''Eaten Alive'', and Eppon in ''Army of Terror''.]]
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* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: The natives in ''The Hunger'', the planet D'Vouran D'vouran in ''Eaten Alive'', and Eppon in ''Army of Terror''.]]
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* MadScientist: Gog and [[spoiler:Mammon Hoole]].
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* MadScientist: Borborygmus Gog and [[spoiler:Mammon Hoole]].
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* MeaningfulName: D'vouran, a planet that [[spoiler:eats people]] and Necropolis, a planet with [[spoiler:zombies]].
** Gog and Mammon are names from Literature/TheBible often associated with evil people or demons.
** Gog and Mammon are names from Literature/TheBible often associated with evil people or demons.
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* MeaningfulName: D'vouran, a planet that [[spoiler:eats people]] and Necropolis, a planet with [[spoiler:zombies]].
**Gog and Mammon are names from Literature/TheBible often associated with evil people or demons.
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* OrphansOrdeal: Hoole is not a very good primary guardian. Tendency to be distant and refusal to talk about himself aside, he drags the children along on his work across the galaxy, not telling them what he's doing and becoming irritable when they demand to know where they're headed. He warms eventually, but still pulls them from one place to another and leaves them to their own devices. Inevitably they end up wandering into hazardous and terrifying situations.
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* OrphansOrdeal: Hoole is not a very good primary guardian.guardian at first. Tendency to be distant and refusal to talk about himself aside, he drags the children along on his work across the galaxy, not telling them what he's doing and becoming irritable when they demand to know where they're headed. He warms eventually, but still pulls them from one place to another by then they're wanted by TheEmpire and leaves them to their own devices. on the run. Inevitably they end up wandering into hazardous and terrifying situations.situations.
* PapaWolf: Hoole gradually becomes more of one.
* PapaWolf: Hoole gradually becomes more of one.
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* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Shi'ido have these. Hoole suggests that having his own form and identity keeps him from a ShapeshfterIdentityCrisis.
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* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Shi'ido have these. Hoole suggests that having his own form and identity keeps him from a ShapeshfterIdentityCrisis.ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis.
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* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. And she might be infected. Wedge Antilles makes an appearance.
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* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. And she might be infected. [[XWingSeries Wedge Antilles Antilles]] makes an appearance.
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* ''Army of Terror'': The Arrandas visit Kiva to investigate Project Starscream where they encounter a spectral army and rescue an infant named Eppon from an abandoned laboratory. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and C-3PO all make an appearance.
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* ''Army of Terror'': The Arrandas visit Kiva to investigate Project Starscream where they encounter a spectral army and rescue an infant named Eppon from an abandoned laboratory. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and C-3PO all make an appearance.appearance, as does Darth Vader.
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* ''The Swarm'': The gang visits the Sikadian Garden, where they run into Imperial officers and a swarm of carnivorous insects whose numbers have mysteriously skyrocketed. Captain (and future Grand Admiral) Thrawn makes an appearance.
* ''Spore'': The family travels to a mining colony in the middle of an asteroid belt looking for fuel for their ship. However, the miners may have DugTooDeep.
* ''The Doomsday Ship'': The Arrandas are relaxing on a luxury space yacht when passengers are ordered to abandon ship due to an imminent meltdown. Zak and Tash are stuck onboard but the meltdown never happens. The Arrandas are now trapped onboard with no communications and no way out. Dash Rendar makes an appearance.
* ''Spore'': The family travels to a mining colony in the middle of an asteroid belt looking for fuel for their ship. However, the miners may have DugTooDeep.
* ''The Doomsday Ship'': The Arrandas are relaxing on a luxury space yacht when passengers are ordered to abandon ship due to an imminent meltdown. Zak and Tash are stuck onboard but the meltdown never happens. The Arrandas are now trapped onboard with no communications and no way out. Dash Rendar makes an appearance.
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* ''The Swarm'': The gang visits the Sikadian Garden, where they run into Imperial officers and a swarm of carnivorous insects whose numbers have mysteriously skyrocketed. Captain (and future Grand Admiral) Thrawn [[TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn]] makes an appearance.
* ''Spore'': The family travels to a mining colony in the middle of an asteroid belt looking for fuel for their ship. However, the miners may haveDugTooDeep.
DugTooDeep. [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jerec]] makes an appearance.
* ''The Doomsday Ship'': The Arrandas are relaxing on a luxury space yacht when passengers are ordered to abandon ship due to an imminent meltdown. Zak and Tash are stuck onboard but the meltdown never happens. The Arrandas are now trapped onboard with no communications and no way out. [[ShadowsOfTheEmpire DashRendar Rendar]] makes an appearance.
* ''Spore'': The family travels to a mining colony in the middle of an asteroid belt looking for fuel for their ship. However, the miners may have
* ''The Doomsday Ship'': The Arrandas are relaxing on a luxury space yacht when passengers are ordered to abandon ship due to an imminent meltdown. Zak and Tash are stuck onboard but the meltdown never happens. The Arrandas are now trapped onboard with no communications and no way out. [[ShadowsOfTheEmpire Dash
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* AdultFear: The fear of losing family members is a quiet constant.
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: A sci-fi example. [[spoiler: Vroon, a Sk'rrr (a humanoid insect), is part of a cult that worships drog beetles as they believe that drogs and Sk'rrr are related. As the gardener of Sikadian Garden, he kills the beetles' natural predators. This causes the drog beetle population to grow incredibly quickly.]]
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: [[BugBuzz Wingsong]] isn't comprehensible to our heroes, but it's pretty.
* AnAesop: Several books have them, sometime more obvious than others.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: A sci-fi example. [[spoiler: Vroon, a Sk'rrr(a humanoid insect), (an InsectoidAlien), is part of a cult that worships drog beetles as they believe that drogs and Sk'rrr are related. As the gardener of Sikadian Garden, he kills the beetles' natural predators. This causes the drog beetle population to grow incredibly quickly.]]]]
* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: Tash idolizes Jedi and is Force-Sensitive. Long after the series, she's part of Luke's Jedi order.
* AnAesop: Several books have them, sometime more obvious than others.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: A sci-fi example. [[spoiler: Vroon, a Sk'rrr
* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: Tash idolizes Jedi and is Force-Sensitive. Long after the series, she's part of Luke's Jedi order.
* BlobMonster: The... blobs in ''Planet Plague''.
* BondingOverMissingParents: The Arrandas and Luke.
* {{Bookworm}}: Tash.
* BondingOverMissingParents: The Arrandas and Luke.
* {{Bookworm}}: Tash.
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* TheCameo: Oh, loads of them. Even aside from the [[HeroOfAnotherStory main characters]] listed above, more minor ones frequently play roles. Doctor Evazam is the villain of ''City of the Dead''. Dengar has an extremely fleeting role in ''The Nightmare Machine''. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Dannik Jerriko]] is in ''Ghost of the Jedi''.
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* CallingCard: A serial killer in ''The Brain Spiders'' carves a "K" into the foreheads of his victims.
* TheCameo: Oh, loads of them. Even aside from the [[HeroOfAnotherStory main characters]] listed above, more minor ones frequently play roles. Doctor Evazam is the villain of ''City of the Dead''. Dengar has an extremely fleeting role in ''The Nightmare Machine''. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Dannik Jerriko]] is in ''Ghost of the Jedi''. Even when he doesn't meet the heroes, Darth Vader often appears in the VillainOpeningScene.
* TheCameo: Oh, loads of them. Even aside from the [[HeroOfAnotherStory main characters]] listed above, more minor ones frequently play roles. Doctor Evazam is the villain of ''City of the Dead''. Dengar has an extremely fleeting role in ''The Nightmare Machine''. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Dannik Jerriko]] is in ''Ghost of the Jedi''. Even when he doesn't meet the heroes, Darth Vader often appears in the VillainOpeningScene.
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* DissonantSerenity: Uncle Hoole is calm in crises. He's less so when dealing with Tash and Zek.
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* CoolStarship: ''The Shroud''.
* DebtDetester: In all fairness, owing Jabba the Hutt an unspecified favor is never good.
* DissonantSerenity: Uncle Hoole is calm in crises. He's less so when dealing with Tash andZek.Zak. When the kids meet Thrawn, they note he's the same, if in a colder way.
* DebtDetester: In all fairness, owing Jabba the Hutt an unspecified favor is never good.
* DissonantSerenity: Uncle Hoole is calm in crises. He's less so when dealing with Tash and
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: [[BigBad ForceFlow]], Grimpen.]]
* ExplosiveBreeder: Droog beetles. Hatchling to sexual maturity in a day, laying ten eggs a day.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Droog beetles. Hatchling to sexual maturity in a day, laying ten eggs a day.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: Tash does this a lot.
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Karkas.]]
* GhostPlanet: Kiva.
* GhostPlanet: Kiva.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Sometimes Tash can tell if someone really is good and trustworthy even if they're acting sketchy, and likes them without quite knowing why... but she also has no idea when someone helpful and friendly is out to get her.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Tash was never given instruction on TheForce.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Tash was never given instruction on TheForce.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Tash.
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll
* LifeEnergy: One of Gog's interests.
* ManEatingPlant: The alleth plant in ''Spore'' is more like the carnivorous plants of Earth than most instances of this trope. No mouths, no sounds, they usually don't move much, and the insides of their leaves are bright red. A sproutling will sting a hand that touches it, and grown samples are large enough to kill and eat small rodents. Scary! [[spoiler: Don't worry, there are more fantastical dangerous plants later in the book.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast: Karkas. [[DontExplainTheJoke See, it sounds like "carcass".]]
* {{Necromancer}}: The legendary Sycorax. In a sense, [[spoiler: Dr. Evazam]].
* {{Necromancer}}: The legendary Sycorax. In a sense, [[spoiler: Dr. Evazam]].
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Pretty much word for word.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: And when someone acts exactly the same under great pressure, they know something.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: [[spoiler: Eppon.]]
* PutOnABus: DV-9 after ''Army of Terror''.
* QuicksandSucks: ''Eaten Alive''.
* QuicksandSucks: ''Eaten Alive''.
* ScarsAreForever: Even for droids, apparently.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Shi'ido have these. Hoole suggests that having his own form and identity keeps him from a ShapeshfterIdentityCrisis.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Shi'ido have these. Hoole suggests that having his own form and identity keeps him from a ShapeshfterIdentityCrisis.
* SiblingYinYang: Tash and Zak, a little.
* SpookySilentLibrary: ''Ghost of the Jedi''.
* ThinkNothingOfIt
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* UndeadChild: [[spoiler: Kairn]] in ''City of the Dead''.
* TheVirus:Spore''The Planet Plague'', ''Spore''.
* YouAreNotAlone
* TheVirus:
* YouAreNotAlone
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Thirteen-year-old Tash meets Luke Skywalker and likes him instantly.
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--> He winked at Tash, and she felt the Force flow between them, just as she had during their first meeting. It was a warm, electric tingle, as though she were on one end of a wire with Luke at the other. Together, they made a connection.
--> He winked at Tash, and she felt the Force flow between them, just as she had during their first meeting. It was a warm, electric tingle, as though she were on one end of a wire with Luke at the other. Together, they made a connection.
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* PokemonSpeak: Eppon! Eppon!
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* TheCameo: Oh, loads of them. Even aside from the [[HeroOfAnotherStory main characters]] listed above, more minor ones frequently play roles. Doctor Evazam is the villain of ''City of the Dead''. Dengar has an extremely fleeting role in ''The Nightmare Machine''. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Dannik Jerriko]] is in ''Ghost of the Jedi''.
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* MasterPoisoner: In ''City of the Dead'', a handful of swallowed cryptberries will kill someone almost instantly. After doing this to one twelve-year-old boy, the better to [[TestedOnHumans test his zombification serum]], Dr. Evazam injects another with ''diluted'' cryptberry, which puts him into a deathlike coma for long enough that he can [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral have a funeral]] and be BuriedAlive.
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* ''Eaten Alive'': Our heroes crash-land on the planet D'Vouran and deal with several mysterious disappearances. Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, and their droids make an appearance.
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* ''Eaten Alive'': ''EatenAlive'': Our heroes crash-land on the planet D'Vouran and deal with several mysterious disappearances. Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, and their droids make an appearance.
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* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. And she might be infected.
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* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. And she might be infected. Wedge Antilles makes an appearance.
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* ContinuityNod: Many of them, to the movies and the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse. In ''The Planet Plague'', DV-9 chatters about the Massassi of Yavin Four and the [[DarkEmpire Ysanna of Ossus]].
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Averted. Surprisingly for a kidlit book, TheEmpire isn't all evil. Led by an evil Emperor, yes, and there's a high number of evil plots rooted in it, but at the same time, it's stressed that it is a government.
--> "I know how you feel about the Empire, and you have a right to be angry. But you have to understand that the government has officers, soldiers, and fleets of ships all across the galaxy. Most of the time they are just beings going about their daily business. If you think that every time you see stormtroopers you have uncovered a wicked Imperial plot, you will go insane with worry."
--> "I know how you feel about the Empire, and you have a right to be angry. But you have to understand that the government has officers, soldiers, and fleets of ships all across the galaxy. Most of the time they are just beings going about their daily business. If you think that every time you see stormtroopers you have uncovered a wicked Imperial plot, you will go insane with worry."
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''Galaxy of Fear'' is a series of children's sci-fi horror novels set in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. The series is centered on the Force-sensitive Tash Arranda and her brother Zak, who travel with their Uncle Hoole, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] Shi'ido, and their protocol droid tutor DV-9, or Deevee. Tash and Zak were survivors of the Death Star's attack on Alderaan as they had been in an off-planet field trip. They were taken in by Hoole, an anthropologist with a mysterious past, who travels the galaxy for his work.
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Tash has abandonment issues and knows it. Her parents left her and her brother in the care of strangers and died; whenever Uncle Hoole leaves her and Zak to go do whatever, she becomes antsy and anxious.
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* BigDamnHeroes: In ''Eaten Alive'', the crew of the ''Falcon'' make a brief cameo early on, then leave the planet. Later [[spoiler: the planet itself comes to life]] and prevents our heroes' ship from taking off, and the ''Falcon'' picks them up because Luke had wanted to check on them.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The natives of D'vouran, the Enzeen, look like blue-skinned humanoids with spikes for hair. [[spoiler: The planet is actually alive, and they are symbiotes which lure people to the surface so the world can eat them, then are fed themselves by plunging their hollow tongues into the dirt.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The natives of D'vouran, the Enzeen, look like blue-skinned humanoids with spikes for hair. [[spoiler: The planet is actually alive, and they are symbiotes which lure people to the surface so the world can eat them, then are fed themselves by plunging their hollow tongues into the dirt.]]
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every chapter, every book.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every chapter, every book. Daniel Wallace lampshaded it.
--> Every single chapter of those books had to end with a cliffhanger. It was the law. A chapter would finish with "Tash stepped off the spaceship and heard a blood-curdling scream!" Then you'd read the next chapter and it would say "But apparently it was just a bird."
--> Every single chapter of those books had to end with a cliffhanger. It was the law. A chapter would finish with "Tash stepped off the spaceship and heard a blood-curdling scream!" Then you'd read the next chapter and it would say "But apparently it was just a bird."
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* DissonantSerentiy: Uncle Hoole is calm in crises. He's less so when dealing with Tash and Zek.
* TheForce: Being attacked triggers something in Tash.
--> She forgot about her fear. A warm tingle spread through her body. She imagined the energy field expanding, driving the shrieking creatures farther and farther away. As she did, the tingle in her body grew into a strong electric current, running from the top of her head down to her toes. For just an instant she felt a sense of connection with something larger than herself, larger even than the planet on which she stood.
--> She forgot about her fear. A warm tingle spread through her body. She imagined the energy field expanding, driving the shrieking creatures farther and farther away. As she did, the tingle in her body grew into a strong electric current, running from the top of her head down to her toes. For just an instant she felt a sense of connection with something larger than herself, larger even than the planet on which she stood.
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* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Tash and Zak are kids from ''Alderaan''. It weighs on Zak.
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* PrecociousCrush: Tash, who is thirteen, towards Luke, who is nineteen or twenty. Tash would argue that [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend she has outgrown crushes]], she's just fascinated by his Jedi connections, but it certainly ''looks'' like a crush, being bold around most people but shy around him and feeling tingly when he shakes her hand.
* PseudoCrisis: Constantly. If a chapter end isn't a real cliffhanger, it's this.
* PseudoCrisis: Constantly. If a chapter end isn't a real cliffhanger, it's this.
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* SpiderSense: Tash is Force-Sensitive.
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* TitleDrop: ''Eaten Alive'' has this.
--> "Aaiiiiii!" the Gank screamed. It was terrifying to hear that sound come from the battle-scarred thug. "It's hurting me! It's hurting me!" His eyes were alive with terror. "I'm being eaten alive!"
--> "Aaiiiiii!" the Gank screamed. It was terrifying to hear that sound come from the battle-scarred thug. "It's hurting me! It's hurting me!" His eyes were alive with terror. "I'm being eaten alive!"
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* ''Eaten Alive'': Our heroes crash-land on the planet D'Vouran and deal with several mysterious disappearances.
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* ''Eaten Alive'': Our heroes crash-land on the planet D'Vouran and deal with several mysterious disappearances. Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, and their droids make an appearance.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every chapter, every book.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Thirteen-year-old Tash meets Luke Skywalker and likes him instantly.
--> Something about him made her feel strange. Not "strange" like the crushes she'd had on boys back on Alderaan - [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she had outgrown crushes anyway]]. This was a sense of... relief. Tash felt as if she'd been waiting to meet someone like Luke Skywalker all her life.
--> Something about him made her feel strange. Not "strange" like the crushes she'd had on boys back on Alderaan - [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she had outgrown crushes anyway]]. This was a sense of... relief. Tash felt as if she'd been waiting to meet someone like Luke Skywalker all her life.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Zak calls a somewhat deranged-seeming man "a few starships short of a fleet".
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* MeaningfulName: D'Vouran, a planet that [[spoiler:eats people]] and Necropolis, a planet with [[spoiler:zombies]].
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* PseudoCrisis: Constantly.
* PunnyName: The [[AC: Don't Go Inn]] on D'vouran.
* PunnyName: The [[AC: Don't Go Inn]] on D'vouran.
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* SharePhrase: Tash has a bad feeling about this. Lampshaded by her brother, who scornfully says she always has bad feelings.
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* OrphansOrdeal: Hoole is not a very good primary guardian. Tendency to be distant and refusal to talk about himself aside, he drags the children along on his work across the galaxy, not telling them what he's doing and becoming irritable when they demand to know where they're headed. He warms eventually, but still pulls them from one place to another and leaves them to their own devices. Inevitably they end up wandering into hazardous and terrifying situations.
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* FollowTheLeader: Like the page quote says, it's pretty clearly Goosebumps [[AC: [[RecycledINSPACE IN STAR WARS]]]].
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* FollowTheLeader: Like the page quote says, it's pretty clearly Goosebumps [[AC: [- [[RecycledINSPACE IN STAR WARS]]]].WARS]]-].
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* BuriedAlive: ''City of the Dead''.
* FollowTheLeader: Like the page quote says, it's pretty clearly Goosebumps [[AC: [[RecycledINSPACE IN STAR WARS]]]].
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Tash and Zak are kids from ''Alderaan''. It weighs on Zak.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The history/mythology of Necropolis involves a witch named [[Theatre/TheTempest Sycorax]].
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In ''Clones'', some characters wonder if they are actually clones. In ''City of the Dead'', Zak may or may not be an intelligent zombie now.
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* FingerTwitchingRevivalFingerTwitchingRevival: After being [[spoiler:killed by Gog, a headless Eppon's finger twitches]]. Then the novel ends.
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''{{Goosebumps}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''StarWars''!
''Galaxy of Fear'' is a series of children's sci-fi horror novels set in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. The series is centered on the Force-sensitive Tash Arranda and her brother Zak, who travel with their Uncle Hoole, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] Shi'ido, and their protocol droid tutor DV-9, or Deevee. Tash and Zak were survivors of the Death Star's attack on Alderaan as they had been in an off-planet field trip. They were taken in by Hoole, an anthropologist with a mysterious past, who travels the galaxy for his work.
There are twelve books in the series. The first six books deal with the mysterious Project Starscream, a series of experiments in biological weapons conducted by the Galactic Empire. The other six have more independent storylines with the main characters fleeing the Empire as fugitives.
'''List of novels'''
* ''Eaten Alive'': Our heroes crash-land on the planet D'Vouran and deal with several mysterious disappearances.
* ''City of the Dead'': The family visits the planet Necropolis, where Zak befriends some local kids who dare him to sneak into a cemetery. Boba Fett makes an appearance.
* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. And she might be infected.
* ''The Nightmare Machine'': Zak and Tash visit Hologram Fun World, which includes a simulator that brings their worst fears to life. Lando Calrissian makes an appearance.
* ''Ghost of the Jedi'': Fleeing Gog, the family hides out in an abandoned space station that houses an ancient Jedi library. However, the library also houses the spirit of a Jedi.
* ''Army of Terror'': The Arrandas visit Kiva to investigate Project Starscream where they encounter a spectral army and rescue an infant named Eppon from an abandoned laboratory. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and C-3PO all make an appearance.
* ''The Brain Spiders'': Hoole visits Jabba's Palace so that he can study the [[BrainInAJar B'omarr monks]]. Meanwhile, the kids investigate a series of murders whose killer leaves a K carved into his victims' bodies.
* ''The Swarm'': The gang visits the Sikadian Garden, where they run into Imperial officers and a swarm of carnivorous insects whose numbers have mysteriously skyrocketed. Captain (and future Grand Admiral) Thrawn makes an appearance.
* ''Spore'': The family travels to a mining colony in the middle of an asteroid belt looking for fuel for their ship. However, the miners may have DugTooDeep.
* ''The Doomsday Ship'': The Arrandas are relaxing on a luxury space yacht when passengers are ordered to abandon ship due to an imminent meltdown. Zak and Tash are stuck onboard but the meltdown never happens. The Arrandas are now trapped onboard with no communications and no way out. Dash Rendar makes an appearance.
* ''Clones'': The family lands on Dantooine, where they are tricked into visiting some old Jedi ruins. They run into a gang of Rebels but Tash senses the Dark Side in the ruins.
* ''The Hunger'': Their ship destroyed by Boba Fett, the family is stranded on a swamp planet with a strange tribe calling themselves the Children. Boba Fett and Yoda make appearances.
!!This series provides examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:SIM in ''The Doomsday Ship''.]]
* AnimalWrongsGroup: A sci-fi example. [[spoiler: Vroon, a Sk'rrr (a humanoid insect), is part of a cult that worships drog beetles as they believe that drogs and Sk'rrr are related. As the gardener of Sikadian Garden, he kills the beetles' natural predators. This causes the drog beetle population to grow incredibly quickly.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Hoole]]
* BigBad: Borborygmus Gog for the first six books.
* BrainInAJar: The B'omarr monks.
* ClosedCircle: Several of the books start with the characters' ship being rendered nonoperational for one reason or another.
* FingerTwitchingRevival
** ''Body'' Twitching Revival in ''City of the Dead,'' where uncontrollable spasms serve as a RedRightHand for those who have been [[spoiler: reanimated by Dr. Evazan's serum.]] The end of the book suggests [[spoiler: Zak himself might have been reanimated]].
* IKnowWhatYouFear: The Nightmare Machine.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: The natives in ''The Hunger'', the planet D'Vouran in ''Eaten Alive'', and Eppon in ''Army of Terror''.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Vroon killed by the drog beetles he worshiped, Gog killed by the wraiths of people he killed.]]
* MadScientist: Gog and [[spoiler:Mammon Hoole]].
* MeaningfulName: D'Vouran, a planet that [[spoiler:eats people]] and Necropolis, a planet with [[spoiler:zombies]].
** Gog and Mammon are names from Literature/TheBible often associated with evil people or demons.
* NotNowKiddo
* ScarecrowSolution: [[spoiler: In ''Ghost of the Jedi''.]]
* TheSwarm: The beetles in, well, ''The Swarm''.
* TomatoInTheMirror: In ''Clones'', some characters wonder if they are actually clones.
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Eppon]]
** DefusingTheTykeBomb: [[spoiler: Tash uses her Force powers to communicate with Eppon. This works until Gog sets off a device that [[YourHeadAsplode makes his head explode]].]]
* TheVirus: Spore
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''Galaxy of Fear'' is a series of children's sci-fi horror novels set in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. The series is centered on the Force-sensitive Tash Arranda and her brother Zak, who travel with their Uncle Hoole, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] Shi'ido, and their protocol droid tutor DV-9, or Deevee. Tash and Zak were survivors of the Death Star's attack on Alderaan as they had been in an off-planet field trip. They were taken in by Hoole, an anthropologist with a mysterious past, who travels the galaxy for his work.
There are twelve books in the series. The first six books deal with the mysterious Project Starscream, a series of experiments in biological weapons conducted by the Galactic Empire. The other six have more independent storylines with the main characters fleeing the Empire as fugitives.
'''List of novels'''
* ''Eaten Alive'': Our heroes crash-land on the planet D'Vouran and deal with several mysterious disappearances.
* ''City of the Dead'': The family visits the planet Necropolis, where Zak befriends some local kids who dare him to sneak into a cemetery. Boba Fett makes an appearance.
* ''Planet Plague'': The family visits Gobindi, where Tash learns that the Empire is experimenting with viruses. And she might be infected.
* ''The Nightmare Machine'': Zak and Tash visit Hologram Fun World, which includes a simulator that brings their worst fears to life. Lando Calrissian makes an appearance.
* ''Ghost of the Jedi'': Fleeing Gog, the family hides out in an abandoned space station that houses an ancient Jedi library. However, the library also houses the spirit of a Jedi.
* ''Army of Terror'': The Arrandas visit Kiva to investigate Project Starscream where they encounter a spectral army and rescue an infant named Eppon from an abandoned laboratory. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and C-3PO all make an appearance.
* ''The Brain Spiders'': Hoole visits Jabba's Palace so that he can study the [[BrainInAJar B'omarr monks]]. Meanwhile, the kids investigate a series of murders whose killer leaves a K carved into his victims' bodies.
* ''The Swarm'': The gang visits the Sikadian Garden, where they run into Imperial officers and a swarm of carnivorous insects whose numbers have mysteriously skyrocketed. Captain (and future Grand Admiral) Thrawn makes an appearance.
* ''Spore'': The family travels to a mining colony in the middle of an asteroid belt looking for fuel for their ship. However, the miners may have DugTooDeep.
* ''The Doomsday Ship'': The Arrandas are relaxing on a luxury space yacht when passengers are ordered to abandon ship due to an imminent meltdown. Zak and Tash are stuck onboard but the meltdown never happens. The Arrandas are now trapped onboard with no communications and no way out. Dash Rendar makes an appearance.
* ''Clones'': The family lands on Dantooine, where they are tricked into visiting some old Jedi ruins. They run into a gang of Rebels but Tash senses the Dark Side in the ruins.
* ''The Hunger'': Their ship destroyed by Boba Fett, the family is stranded on a swamp planet with a strange tribe calling themselves the Children. Boba Fett and Yoda make appearances.
!!This series provides examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:SIM in ''The Doomsday Ship''.]]
* AnimalWrongsGroup: A sci-fi example. [[spoiler: Vroon, a Sk'rrr (a humanoid insect), is part of a cult that worships drog beetles as they believe that drogs and Sk'rrr are related. As the gardener of Sikadian Garden, he kills the beetles' natural predators. This causes the drog beetle population to grow incredibly quickly.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Hoole]]
* BigBad: Borborygmus Gog for the first six books.
* BrainInAJar: The B'omarr monks.
* ClosedCircle: Several of the books start with the characters' ship being rendered nonoperational for one reason or another.
* FingerTwitchingRevival
** ''Body'' Twitching Revival in ''City of the Dead,'' where uncontrollable spasms serve as a RedRightHand for those who have been [[spoiler: reanimated by Dr. Evazan's serum.]] The end of the book suggests [[spoiler: Zak himself might have been reanimated]].
* IKnowWhatYouFear: The Nightmare Machine.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: The natives in ''The Hunger'', the planet D'Vouran in ''Eaten Alive'', and Eppon in ''Army of Terror''.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Vroon killed by the drog beetles he worshiped, Gog killed by the wraiths of people he killed.]]
* MadScientist: Gog and [[spoiler:Mammon Hoole]].
* MeaningfulName: D'Vouran, a planet that [[spoiler:eats people]] and Necropolis, a planet with [[spoiler:zombies]].
** Gog and Mammon are names from Literature/TheBible often associated with evil people or demons.
* NotNowKiddo
* ScarecrowSolution: [[spoiler: In ''Ghost of the Jedi''.]]
* TheSwarm: The beetles in, well, ''The Swarm''.
* TomatoInTheMirror: In ''Clones'', some characters wonder if they are actually clones.
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Eppon]]
** DefusingTheTykeBomb: [[spoiler: Tash uses her Force powers to communicate with Eppon. This works until Gog sets off a device that [[YourHeadAsplode makes his head explode]].]]
* TheVirus: Spore
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