The Word for World is Death is a comic story which serves as the second part of a three-part comics series written by Chris Claremont, originally published in the UK's Star Wars Weekly 110–112, where it was named after the first part published in Star Wars Weekly 110. The other two original parts are "Unholy Alliance" and "A Creature in the Stars." It was reprinted in 1981 in the Marvel Illustrated Books collection Star Wars 2: World of Fire. The story was started in World of Fire and concluded in The Guardian of Forever.