Star Wars has seen many powerful heroes step onto the screen, but just as powerful as the heroes are the heroines and other female leads who are present throughout the stories.

A ​new book by Amy Ratcliffe has compiled profiles and artwork from 18 talented female and non-binary artists to bring fans a book that celebrates heroines like Leia Organa, ​Rey, Ahsoka Tano, Jyn Erso, as well as many other supporting female characters like Rose Tico and Maz Kanata.​

"Chronicle Books has put together an all-star line-up of amazingly talented and diverse artists to bring some of the most important, iconic, and, at times, lesser-known characters from the entire Star Wars saga to life as we’ve never seen them before,” says Michael Siglain, creative director of Lucasfilm Publishing.

My cover for Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy—featuring art from 18 different female and NB artists, written by @amy_geek, published by @ChronicleBooks and available in hardcover this October. Here's the full illustration I did as a bonus too ✨ https://t.co/j8i5XyWi79  pic.twitter.com/DwAuMh3qmF — Jen Bartel (@heyjenbartel) May 30, 2018

" With Women of the Galaxy , I want to celebrate female characters across the galaxy — from the ones fans know incredibly well, like Leia and Padmé, to lesser known women like Vi Moradi or Aurra Sing." says Ratcliffe. " Every one of them is important. I think of the entries as being part celebration and part bio, with background information about the character, behind the scenes facts, and key moments that resonated with me."

I wrote a Star Wars book about 75 of the incredible female characters in the universe with all new art by 18 female and non-binary artists. This is a dream come true. ✨

Details: https://t.co/mmiFYXJNUx pic.twitter.com/MtS4n1q18I — Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) May 30, 2018

This exclusive book will be hitting shelves this year in October and may even teach you some things you didn't know about your favorite galaxy heroines.





Some people are so excited about this book that they're suggesting an expansion to explore other female characters who are lesser known but still present in some incarnation of the universe.

So awesome! If you ever get to expand this, there are some awesome women (of different moralities) from a mobile MMO I worked on who could use attention. They & the story are current canon but the game is now offline. #StarWarsUprising #Riley #Deathstick #HerMajesty #Shelish pic.twitter.com/wZZGMKBfj5 — Lori Hyrup (@LoriHyrup) May 30, 2018