Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders

Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders is the seventh book in the young readers Galaxy of Fear series.

Publisher's summary
''Uncle Hoole's idea of a vacation is visiting the palace of Jabba the Hutt. Of course, it's a working vacation. Hoole wants to study the B'omarr monks who live in tunnels beneath the palace. If Jabba isn't enough to give Zak and Tash nightmares, the monks should do it. The most enlightened monks don't have bodies. They're just brains in jars. Brains in jars that walk around on robotic legs. Worst of all, one of the monks is mad&mdash;not just angry-mad, but out-of-his-mind mad. And if Tash isn't careful, she might lose her head.''

Plot summary
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.

Characters

 * Tash Arranda
 * Zak Arranda
 * Brother Beidlo
 * D-V9 "Deevee"
 * Drudo
 * Boba Fett
 * Bib Fortuna
 * Commander Fuzzel
 * Brother Grimpen
 * Mammon Hoole
 * Karkas
 * Han Solo
 * Jabba Desilijic Tiure "Jabba the Hutt"
 * Darth Vader

Creatures

 * Bantha
 * Brain spider
 * Circapousian water snake
 * Dewback
 * Eel
 * Nerf
 * Rancor
 * Sarlacc
 * Tauntaun
 * Vornskr

Droid models

 * BT-16 perimeter droid
 * Hospitality droid
 * Sentry droid

Events

 * Brain transference ceremony
 * Destruction of Alderaan
 * Destruction of Death Star

Locations

 * Alderaan
 * Koaan
 * Galactic Research Facility
 * Koda Space Station
 * The End of the World
 * Necropolis
 * Tatooine
 * Great Pit of Carkoon
 * Jabba's Palace
 * Great Room of the Enlightened
 * Mos Eisley
 * Chalmun's Cantina
 * Docking Bay 94

Organizations and titles

 * Alliance to Restore the Republic
 * B'omarr Order
 * Black Sun
 * Bounty hunter
 * Galactic Empire
 * Stormtrooper
 * Jedi Knight
 * Nerf herder
 * Senior Anthropologist
 * Smuggler

Sentient species

 * Devaronian
 * Duros
 * Gamorrean
 * Gank
 * Human
 * Hutt
 * Jawa
 * Kitonak
 * Kubaz
 * Shi'ido
 * Tusken Raider
 * Twi'lek
 * Whiphid
 * Wookiee

Vehicles and vessels

 * Death Star I
 * Helix-class light interceptor
 * Shroud
 * Hoversled
 * Landspeeder
 * Luxury sail barge
 * Millennium Falcon
 * Skimboard

Weapons and technology

 * Blaster
 * Chrono
 * Computer
 * Datadisk
 * Datapad
 * Datascreen
 * Durasteel
 * E-11 blaster rifle
 * Holographic projector
 * Holopicture
 * Hyperdrive
 * Laser
 * Sublight drive
 * Transparisteel
 * Turbolaser
 * Vibro-ax
 * Vibroblade
 * Vibroscalpel
 * Vidscreen

Miscellanea

 * Bantha fodder
 * Basic
 * Black hole
 * Credit
 * Death Star plans
 * Hyperspace
 * Lume rock
 * Meditation chamber
 * Nerfherder
 * Starbattle
 * T'bac
 * The Force

Cover gallery
This is a gallery of the different cover variations of Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders.