'Starlog' magazines, read free online

Star Wars comics, novels and non-fiction books.
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'Starlog' magazines, read free online

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As well as archives of websites, Archive.org has a lot of print material from various libraries and collections. Amongst their magazines, they have almost all of the Starlog magazines going back to the early 1970s and through to 1996. It's kinda fun to read articles about Star Wars from when it first came out, such as this one from August 1977 - https://archive.org/stream/starlog_maga ... 7/mode/2up

The full magazines can be accessed in a variety of formats, including PDF, various eReader formats etc. https://archive.org/details/starlogmagazine
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Some other classic Star Wars articles:

Gary Kurtz talking about The Empire Strikes Back, in 1978 - https://archive.org/stream/starlog_maga ... 9/mode/2up
Interviews with Stuart Freeborn and Rick Baker, in January 1978 - https://archive.org/stream/starlog_maga ... 3/mode/2up
Larry Cuba talks about the digital Death Star animations - https://archive.org/stream/starlog_maga ... 9/mode/2up
P.S. Ellenshaw talks about matte painting for SW - https://archive.org/stream/starlog_maga ... 1/mode/2up
The Holiday Special :) - https://archive.org/stream/starlog_maga ... 9/mode/2up
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Awesome find Matt!

Man, I remember reading these way before the internet bombarded us with movie info. They were gold.
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MattG wrote:The H****** S****** :)
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Archive.org also has a collection of old video and audio bit and pieces (including old TV adverts and full TV episodes and movies), and has started collecting old computer games which you can play in an online emulator.
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Buzz Bumble wrote:...
Archive.org also has a collection of old video and audio bit and pieces (including old TV adverts and full TV episodes and movies), and has started collecting old computer games which you can play in an online emulator.
Indeed, quite a treasure trove.
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If you had seen the TV show Face Off, like project runway but for fx makeup artists, this reminded me of the Fangoria magazine that was available at the same time, great reading back in the day, I think I still have a couple of old starlog mags around somewhere, Bill & Ted, Terminator 2, etc :)
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