this isn't a question of canon, it's just one of Lucas' reused rejected ideas
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The book you are asking about is called
Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
by George Lucas
you can buy this book for about .25 cents on Amazon used. Here is a link.
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Oh... okay, that might be book I was thinking of... I remember
one of my old friends who was a bigger Star Wars Fanatic than
me say something about a book that detailed events prior to the
first movie made about Star Wars, and why it was also known as
"Episode IV," eventhough it was the first one released.
it's the ANH novelization with a very brief and somewhat outdated retelling of the prequals. the quote I put up is not in the book, it's the intro to the third draft of the ANH script. this intro is in every edition of ANH so don't break your balls trying to find it. just get any edition from a bookstore or library
__________________ Land of the free, home of the brave...
Do you think we will ever be saved?
In this land of dreams find myself sober...
Wonder when will it'll all be over...
Living in a void when the void grows colder...
Wonder when it'll all be over?
Will you be laughing when it's over?
Pinnacle, here is an excerpt from a reveiw some one that read it wrote about the book he says this book leads right into the opening scene of ANH.
Star Wars begins with a short prologue that, with a few "special modifications" in the text, is really the outline for the current Prequel Trilogy. In the form of an excerpt from "the first saga -- Journal of the Whills," we are told that the once-powerful Galactic Republic, protected by the Jedi Knights, "throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match." Insidiously, like a house under attack by termites, the Republic rotted from within until "[a]ided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic....Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor...."
The novel then segues directly into the famous opening scene of Star Wars: an Imperial Star Destroyer (called here an Imperial cruiser) chases Princess Leia's Rebel Blockade Runner and captures it over the desert planet of Tatooine. After a brief battle, Imperial stormtroopers take over the ship, and Leia is taken before Lord Darth Vader, who wants to know what she did with secret data "transmitted by Rebel spies."
You ordered the right book. I had to go back and re read the review sorry I got confused for a second becuase it says the book I told you about was later revised in a fouth draft . Once again sorry for the confusion.
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Okay, cool... when you mentioned the book the first time, it sounded
like the one I vaguely remembered. A preface entailing roughly
what the first three episodes prior to Episode IV. Also, vaguely
remembering a discussion about why the movie, Star Wars, was also
known as Episode IV, A Hew Hope.
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Yes, that is just the preamble to the start of the ANH novel, there is nothing special about that. There are millions of copies of the ANH novel floating about! Most fans have read it.
And it was written by Alan Dean Foster, not George Lucas. I know it SAYS it was GL but it was not; ADF wrote it for him.
For that matter, it came out before the Star Wars film, which was long before that film was called Episode IV or A New Hope.
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Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. Some of the other forum members
didn't believe me when I mentioned it. I guess, they held the fact that
I was a Hilary Duff fan against me, and just assumed I was wrong
because of that...
What's this about ANH, is that an abbreviation for something?
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