Star Wars: Pit Droids software genre, mentioning its animation, sound effects, and tutorial. "CVG" said the game was easy to play, but added that its overly simple concept reduced its replayability. "Pit Droids" won "Computer Games Strategy Plus"s 1999 "Classic Game of the Year" award. The editors wrote, "[T]his game is not only mind-bogglingly fun for puzzle fans of all ages, it is also solid, well-designed, addictive, attractive, and arguably the year’s best use of the "Star Wars Episode I" license." Star Wars: Pit Droids Star Wars: Pit Droids (full title: "Star Wars Pit Droids: Logic and Reasoning") is a 1999 puzzle game by
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