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Having gone through several alternate titles, this the one the publisher has settled on. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. We now know as lucas freely admits in reprints of the book that this book was in fact written by alan dean foster, who created several specific aspects. Thats the plot of splinter of the minds eye, a 1978 spinoff novel by alan dean foster that was commissioned as a possible springboard for a new star wars film, should the first one survive.
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