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THE EARLY DAYS OF THE

EXPANDED UNIVERSE

BY MICHAEL KOGGE
REWIND TO 1977. THE
UNIVERSE OF STAR WARS

CONSISTED OF A TOTAL OF
FIVE PLANETS, A BUNCH OF
NON-HUMAN SPECIES
GLIMPSED IN A DIM CANTINA,
AN EVIL EMPIRE, A RAG-TAG
REBELLION, AND CURSORY
REFERENCES TO A MYSTICAL

WARRIOR CLAN.
FAST FORWARD 36 YEARS.
THIS GALAXY HAS EXPANDED
SO RAPIDLY THAT IT
NECESSITATES PUBLISHING
SEVERAL ESSENTIAL GUIDES,
A 256-PAGE ATLAS,
AND A THREE-VOLUME
ENCYCLOPEDIA. AND THAT’S

JUST A FEW OF THE BOOKS.
EVEN MORE INCREDIBLE
IS THAT THE CENTRAL
From right: The first
STORY OF THE FIRST Star Wars novel, a hit
MOVIE—THE REBEL before—and after—
the movie’s 1977
ALLIANCE’S EPIC release; the Star Wars
record and book set;
BATTLE AGAINST the first Expanded
THE EMPIRE—IS NOW Universe book, Splinter
of the Minds Eye by
BUT A MOMENT IN Alan Dean Foster;
Lando Calrissian and
A VAST HISTORY THAT the Mindharp of Sharu;
SPANS MILLENNIA. assistant editor Sherry
Holstein and editor
BUT HOW DID Carol Titelman at the
Star Wars offices
THIS HAPPEN? circa 1980 (photo:
Sherry Kaplan).
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