Just thought I would post a link to the podcast that Order 66 did with some of the designers behind EotE. Gives those waiting for their books some more information to drool about and answers some questions that I have seen brought up on this forum over the past few days.
Yeah, there is a heck of a lot of insight into not just the game rules, but also some of the thought that went into creating the rules as well. Jay gave a list of games that he drew inspiration from for EotE, and it's quite an eclectic list.
Fair warning, there are a couple points where Skype winds up garbling the audio quality, but sadly there's really not much of anything that tech-guru Dave can really do to improve the sound quality.