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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Actually, I do believe there were several Star Wars novels written in the late 70s and early 80s that were not novelizations. The most prominent was Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye.
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Bill
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The Brian Daley Han Solo novels (Han Solo at Star's End, Han Solo's Revenge and Han Solo and the Lost Legacy) are great fun...
Daley nailed Han and Chewie and because the books are set before "A New Hope," they are still the loveable rogues we saw in the Cantina scene, long before they ever "went respectable."
The Lando Calrissian books by L. Neil Smith are best left on the shelf.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye is interesting because Alan Dean Foster had the most direct access to George Lucas (Foster wrote the novelization of "A New Hope" under Lucas's name) and presumably gave us some insight into George's thought processes...We see the first battle between Luke and Vader (and a brutal one at that), an interesting glimpse into the Force and its manifestations, and an interesting preview of the "technological primitives whooping butt on the technologically dependent bad guys" theme as presented later in both Return of the Jedi with the Ewoks and The Phantom Menace with the Gungans...of course, Foster is an immensely talented writer, so the book is quite satisfying in most respects.
But then there is the Luke/Leia romance subplot...ewwww! (written in 1978 or 79 before Jedi came out...who knew?)