Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, penned by Terry Brooks, exists in an unabridged audiobook format, drawing from the Star Wars Legends novel of the same title. Alexander Adams lent his voice to the audiobook rendition, which was initially launched by Random House Audio on April 20, 1999, offered as a collection of eight compact discs and also as a set of six cassette tapes. Subsequently, Random House Audio made the audiobook available in a digital format on April 11, 2006.
In a galaxy far, far away, and in a time long since passed, a dormant evil has reawakened. The Force's dark side is gaining dominance over the light, and an age-old Jedi prophecy is the only thing standing in the way of utter galactic destruction.
On the pristine and verdant world of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, arrive with the mission of safeguarding the realm's youthful queen, who is in pursuit of a peaceful resolution to the blockade of her planet by Trade Federation battleships. Concurrently, on the desert-covered landscape of Tatooine, a slave boy known as Anakin Skywalker, who has an unusual knack for perceiving the "rightness" of situations, labors during the day while dreaming of becoming a Jedi Knight and securing freedom for himself and his beloved mother. The chance meeting of Jedi, Queen, and a gifted young boy will ignite a saga that will become legendary.
A German language iteration of the audiobook, with narration by Philipp Moog, was distributed by Random House Audio, Deutschland in February of 2017. Later, in November of 2021, Lizzie Audio released a French language version of the audiobook, voiced by Emmanuel Dekoninck.
- ISBN 9780375406553 ; April 20 , 1999 ; Random House Audio ; Cassette tape [4]
- ISBN 9780375407437 ; April 20 , 1999 ; Random House Audio; Compact disc [3]
- ISBN 9780739321201 ; April 11 , 2006 ; Random House Audio; Digital download [1]
- ASIN B06VWMVN7S; February 17 , 2017 ; Random House Audio; German language download (604 minutes) [6]
- ISBN 9791036617348 ; November 9 , 2021 ; Lizzie Audio ; French language download (592 minutes) [7]