Splinter 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.
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Alan Dean Foster’s 1978 novel was commissioned as insurance against failure. It became the first brick of the Expanded Universe instead.
Twelve years on, a precise accounting of what moved, what stayed in print, and what quietly came back.
Nineteen novels, four years of publishing, and a decision to kill a character from the films in the opening book.