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.
Originally posted by Shadowkiller
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.
it's the ANH novelization with a very brief and somewhat outdated retelling of the prequals.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
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."
Originally posted by Shadowkiller
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.
😄 Thanks once again! 😎
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.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
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.
What's this about ANH, is that an abbreviation for something?
Originally posted by Ushgarak
A New Hope.Yup, it actually came out before the film, though that shouldn't be a surprise as they still do today! Annoyingly...
Originally posted by Mr.Deflok
Sorry I was thinking that it came out as a standalone novel first then they made the film. Low-forehead moment, novelisations...