Star Wars Episode I: Racer it 3rd in their list of top Star Wars games. That same year it placed 10th in Rock, Paper, Shotgun's top "Star Wars" games list. In "Game Informer"'s 2016 list of the 30 best "Star Wars" video games "Racer" ranked 11th. , the game holds the Guinness record for the best-selling sci-fi racing game having worldwide sales of 3.12 million beating other series like "Wipeout" and "F-Zero". The editors of "Computer Gaming World" nominated "Racer" for their 1999 "Racing Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to "". Star Wars Episode I: Racer Star Wars Episode I: Racer is
The Science of Star Wars (book) The Science of Star Wars (book) The Science of Star Wars is a nonfiction popular science book written by former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos first published on April 15, 1999 by St. Martin's Press. The book uses fictional characters, worlds, and technology from the "Star Wars" universe as starting points for discussion of factual concepts in cosmology, biology, and technology, and discusses in a "semi-serious" fashion the scientific probability of such fictional elements. "It takes the fantastic elements of the movies—like faster-than-light travel—and examines the current state of science to see if they're possible". Chapter 1: Planetary Environments covers topics