What are the names/authors of the original 9 star wars books?
I have been watching the old movies and then was told that there are really 3 chapters after the movies end. I have been looking for the names of the 9 books and there are so many Star Wars books out there.
One of the things that makes the Star Wars saga unique from other saga-stories is that they were NOT made from existing books. The books were written about the movies.
Lucas began writing “The Star Wars” in May of 1973. He didn’t write it in “book form”, he wrote it as a loose outline of a story. When he “finished” he had a massive 12 part epic saga in outline form. Over the years the story itself has undergone massive changes & those changes have had ripple effects through out the entire story. He first wanted to do the story in the same style that the old Flash Gordon series had been done but soon realized that wouldn’t be possible. The first movie, what we now know as ep IV: A New Hope, is different from the other 5 movies in two ways. First, it is the only one of them that can be seen as a stand alone movie. By that I mean it had a definite beginning & a definite end. Almost everyone in Hollywood at the time, including Lucas himself to a certain extent, thought the movie would be an absolute flop. If it had nobody would ever have to know that there was more of the story to tell. Second, it is the only one of the movies that is even remotely close to being the same as the story outline that Lucas wrote. After the movie was a smash hit Lucas realized that he could tell more of his story & that when things started to change. Of all the changes there are two major ones that had the most effect on the story as a whole. The first major change was to combine the characters of Anakin Skywalker & Darth Vader into one. No, when first written they were two completely different characters. There is even some proof of this in ep IV in the duel between Obi-Wan & Vader. When Obi-Wan talks to Vader he calls him “Darth”, as if it were his actual first name, that was because at the time it WAS his actual first name. When these two characters were made into one it basically eliminated the back story that had Obi-Wan & Anakin as friends and Jedi Knights with Darth Vader as Obi-Wan’s apprentice & the eventual killer of Anakin, for the most part 3 parts of the story. This left us with the fabled 9 part story that most casual fans think they know about. The first trilogy was to be about the rise & fall of Anakin Skywalker, the second trilogy was to be about the rise of Luke Skywalker & the redemption of Anakin Skywalker, the third trilogy was to be about the “Other Skywalker” that Yoda mentions in ep V. This brings us to the second major change in the story. When Lucas was “fleshing out” the final duel between Luke & Vader in ep VI he got stumped on what he could have Vader say to Luke that would cause Luke to attack his father in a dark side fueled rage. To solve that problem he made Leia the “other Skywalker” & had Vader threaten her. This change eliminated the third trilogy.
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