Canon and Legends, explained without the headache
What Lucasfilm actually announced on 25 April 2014, what stayed canon, and why a Legends book is still a real book.
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Dispatches (6)
All dispatchesSplinter of the Mind’s Eye and the sequel that never was
Alan Dean Foster’s 1978 novel was commissioned as insurance against failure. It became the first brick of the Expanded Universe instead.
Before Heir to the Empire: the expanded universe nobody talks about
Marvel comics, Corporate Sector heists, three Lando novels and a radio drama — what Star Wars publishing looked like from 1977 to 1990.
What the 2014 Legends decision actually changed
Twelve years on, a precise accounting of what moved, what stayed in print, and what quietly came back.
The Bantam years and the Del Rey years
Two publishing regimes, two completely different ideas of what a Star Wars novel is for.
Heir to the Empire at thirty-five
A retrospective on the 1991 novel that turned a dormant film franchise into a publishing programme.
