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After attending the Star Wars: The Old Republic Comic-Con panel, we met up with Sean Williams, the writer of the new Star Wars: The Old Republic novel Fatal Alliance. We were lucky enough to ask the Australian author a few questions about his new book and what it is like to work on the expanding narrative of The Old Republic.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance was released today in Hardcover. Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance is available for purchase at Amazon for $13.50 (as of posting). Working dissection (Warning: Spoilers Ahead) of the book after the jump.

The Star Wars: The Old Republic Fatal Alliance cover image definitely sparked our interest at STARWARS.com:

The site also states the scheduled release date for the Sean Williams novel is July 20, 2010.

In other news, the official SWTOR Twitter hinted we might see a new video documentary in tomorrow's update:

Can anyone remember when exactly it was we posted our last Video Documentary for The Old Republic? #starwars

Although some of us mistakenly thought it was Return to Taris because we think the Developer Dispatches are indeed documentaries, the correct answer is Video Documentary #3 -- released on July 17, 2009.

As reported on Club Jade, Random House revealed a description for the new Star Wars: The Old Republic novel, Fatal Alliance. The Sean Williams novel hits shelves on July 20, 2010. Pre-orders are available through the Random House online store, and the price listed is $27 USD for Del Ray's hardcover edition.

Description after the jump.

LucasArts and BioWare are forging a new Star Wars era of epic adventure with their forthcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Set more than 3,500 years in the past of the far-away galaxy, the game occurs in a time when the Jedi and the Galactic Republic clashed with the Sith Empire. It is an era rich with storytelling opportunities not only for players, but for fans of Star Wars literature.

Already, online fans are aware of Threat of Peace, the serialized web-comic written by BioWare's Rob Chestney. This April, Dark Horse Comics begins collecting the comic into a 96-page trade paperback, Star Wars: The Old Republic Volume 1: Threat of Peace, with art by Alex Sanchez, and colors by Michael Atiyeh.

Threat of Peace author Rob Chestney is also slated to write a new, original The Old Republic short story for online publication here at StarWars.com.

Next July, Del Rey Books will publish in hardcover Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, a novel by bestselling author Sean Williams. Now in the early planning stages is a second novel set in the Old Republic time frame, written by Paul Kemp, author of the forthcoming Crosscurrent.

[Link] to the post.

A recently announced Star Wars: The Old Republic novel by Sean Williams is coming to your local bookstore in 2010:

A listing has shown up in the PubEasy ordering database for a novel titled Star Wars: The Old Republic by Sean Williams (isbn: 9870345511324) to be released July 27, 2010. [Source]

Sue Rostoni offered further information regarding the novel's possible release date along side Star Wars: The Old Republic:

Upon prompting about a novel for non-gamers who would still like to enjoy the story behind Bioware's new MMO, The Old Republic, Sue Rostoni said on Starwars.com's message boards that, "A novel will come out sometime around the game release time and that's all that's been determined so far." [Source]

As much as we would like to speculate on how long "sometime" is from the release of the novel for hints at when the game could be released we have to remember that this is likely Sometime(TM). For those interested in a Star Wars: The Old Republic novel it looks as if you will see one very soon. Hat tip to Dan.