The release date for the English version of 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' by
Terry Brooks is Jan 2000. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In a galaxy far, far away, long ago, a dark legacy that was thought to be extinct is resurfacing. Currently, the galaxy as a whole is on the verge of a dark side of the Force overtaking the light, and the only thing standing between hope and destruction is an old Jedi prophesy.
Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his disciple, Obi-Wan Kenobi, arrive on the verdant, pristine planet of Naboo to guard the young queen of the realm while she attempts to negotiate a diplomatic settlement to terminate Trade Federation warships' siege of her home. At the same time, on desert-swept Tatooine, a slave boy named Anakin Skywalker, who possesses a strange ability for understanding the “rightness” of things, toils by day and dreams by night—of becoming a Jedi Knight and finding a way to win freedom for himself and his beloved mother. The unplanned encounter between the Jedi, the Queen, and a talented young man will initiate a storyline that will go down in history.