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3/5 eBay Country United States Series Galaxy of Fear
Canon C Publisher Bantam Skylark Genre Science Fiction | 3.4/5 Goodreads Cover artist Steve Chorney Language English Subject Star Wars Originally published 1 December 1997 Page count 122 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by Galaxy of Fear: Army of Terror Followed by The Swarm, Galaxy of Fear: The Swarm Similar Works by John Whitman, Galaxy of Fear books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Brain Spiders is the seventh book in the Galaxy of Fear series by John Whitman set in the Star Wars galaxy shortly after Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Many canonical characters and elements appear in the Brain Spiders such as Jabba The Hutt and Bib Fortuna. The brain spider the title references can be seen in Return of the Jedi.
Plot
A murderer who carves a K into his victims is imprisoned in Jabba's palace, when the story begins. A prisoner tricks Zak into believing that he is innocent, and Zak lets him escape. This is presumed to be the same murderer. Later, Zak thinks he sees Tash kill someone and carve the same K. This is explained when a brain spider spells out "IM TASH" in sand, suggesting that the murderer's brain was placed in Tash's body and that Tash's brain was placed in a spider.
Tash tries to develop her sense of the force at the Sarlacc pit.