Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
The first Star Wars book, published six months before the first Star Wars film.
Original generated cover art
Star Wars: The Essential Atlas
Somebody sat down and drew the whole galaxy. Properly.
Published in August 2009, Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry’s atlas maps the Star Wars galaxy in detail — trade routes, sector boundaries, settlement history and hundreds of planet profiles — and reconciles decades of contradictory geography into a single coherent scheme.
This entry is catalogued but not yet reviewed. The publication details above are verified; the write-up is still in the queue.
0 BBY – 4 ABY
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