Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...planet is about the size of earth. But there are a few differences: its only river is longer than the Nile, the Congo, the Niger, the Amazon, the Orinoco and the Mississippi-combined. And its inhabitants are not exactly the folks next door. For inexplicably resurrected on both banks of the mysterious river is every soul who ever lived, from hairy cave dwellers to modern Homo sapiens, from the totally unknown to such famous figures as Joan of Arc, Karl Marx and Hermann Göring...
...England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life and who hijacks Clemens' boat on the Riverworld. But while these two books and the third volume, The Dark Design, drop some clues about the creators of the fantastic planet, none provides the solution to the mystery...
...three years since that victory party, the Rebel forces have somehow wound up hiding from a revitalized Empire on the planet Hoth, which is nothing more than an oversized ice cube. Darth Vader and the Empire quickly discover the Rebellion's snow hideout and descend upon the planet with a force of huge, camel-like tanks...
...miracle in a film where every frame contains an intricate cinematographic maneuver. The puppet's retinue of facial expressions is endless; his ears alone are more expressive than any of his human co-stars, whose abilities to convey emotions seem to have suffered permanent frostbite on the frozen ice planet...
What matters in the Star Wars films, however, is not acting talent, but special effects and plot. The visuals in Empire are stellar (terrestrial scenes--especially those on Yoda's planet, Degobah--are spectacular as well), and the stereophonic sound effects roar with such stunning realism they make you believe that if noise existed in space, this is what it'd sound like...