FREE: 2 1978 Star Wars Books Splinter of the Minds Eye and Storybook

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Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye is a 1978 science e novel written by Alan Dean Foster. It takes place between Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Originally published in 1978 by Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books, it was the first original full-length Star Wars novel to be published after the release of the 1977 Star Wars film, retroactively making it one of the earliest Expanded Universe works.

The principal characters are Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Darth Vader. The characters of Han Solo and Chewbacca do not appear, and Solo is only referred to by Luke Skywalker as "a pirate and a smuggler" that he knows at the end of the book. The book was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success.

The Star Wars Storybook is an adaptation of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope published by Scholastic Book Services, a division of Scholastic. The storybook is based on the movie by George Lucas and adapted by Geraldine Richelson. It features sixty pages of full-color photographs from the original film and includes scenes cut from the final film, with production stills.